Amateur radio payload on lunar-orbiting 4M-LXS to transmit messages from the Moon. With the right equipment you may be able to receive messages from the moon sometime late this October! The Amateur Radio payload on the lunar-orbiting 4M-LXS spacecraft will carry up to 2,500 thirteen-character digital messages to lunar orbit for retransmission using the JT65B mode on 145.990 MHz.
Norton is connected around the world. Throughout his lifetime, Richard Norton has had some unusual acquaintances. One was TV news anchor Walter Cronkite. Another was actor Marlon Brando. To the list you could add country singer Ronnie Millsap, King Hussein of Jordan, military legend Gen. Curtis Lemay, and Yuri Gagarin, Russia’s first cosmonaut.
Ratcliff sisters among youngest amateur radio license holders in the U.S. Most children will say another test is the last thing they want to add to their schedules. Estee and Rebecca Ratcliff did just that earlier this month, when they took and passed the ham radio general license test. “They are among the youngest in the nation,” mom Jennifer Ratcliff said. Estee is 11 and Rebecca is 9.
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