2nd World Moon Bounce Day (2010)
Given the amazing success of this year’s World Moon Bounce Day, we are about to announce the date for the 2010 event and wish to not step on any toes regarding other events scheduling. We are looking to precede the Apollo 13 mission and thus a date in late March or early April. We have our eyes on one particular weekend that gives us the best opportunity for the coverage that we are after, but now is the time to raise your hand to let us know of any conflicts.
Although this was a totally amateur radio event in 2009, we are looking at commercial operators who maybe willing to work with us to do commercial tweets via the moon this year. We are even looking at bouncing a TV signal off the moon.
Please get back to me. Feel free to circulate this message to other boards.
Here are a couple of videos from the 2009 event to get you appetite going:
University of Tasmania 26m dish: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHGXp4Afr4g
Swiss TV report: http://www.youtube.com/v/BUVoiEJd86s
Did you know that the Uni or Tasmania (Australia) and Dwingeloo (Neterlands) dishes did EME on 3mWatts of power during the event
Regards, Robert Brand
Global Events Manager for Echoes of Apollo
robert.brand@echoesofapollo.com
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