[Moon] GB50EMJ

[Dave G4RGK]

Those of you who were active on 70cms EME this last weekend will have heard 
or wkd GB50EMJ
This was a Special event station set up to provide uplink capabilities to 
the Jodrell Bank Literary
Festival celebrating 50 years of the Lovell Telescope.

http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/viscen/events/FirstMove.html


  The main focus was to uplink the audio from the Auditorium to the Moon 
where it was then received by the Lovell Telescope.  (Earth - Moon - Jodrell)
and replayed to the audience in the Auditorium. Those of you who were 
pointing at the Moon at the time
will have heard some strange sounds transmitted on LSB as the poems were 
read in succession and
relayed to the Moon. The Poems were written as part of a Times competition.

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/poetry/article1839649.ece



In addition EME stations were invited to call Jodrell Bank so that their 
signals could be heard live in the hall and
recorded. The results of that are posted here.

http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/public/im/eme.html

During our free time GB50EMJ made normal CW EME qso's with VK3UM, DL9KR, 
SM2CEW, UA3PTW, DL7APV, OZ4MM,
KL6M, SV1BTR and SM3AKW using the uplink station.

All station heard/worked will be sent a special Card from Jodrell Bank.

Dave G4RGK