What I love about hams…. Is how stark raving mad they are!!! The other day was at the pub with ham mates and they were remote accessing a ham station and antenna they had just commissioned. Whilst the other punters played the pokies we were trying for FT8 DX 🤪. Great video, love the high nerd factor passion. 73 de VK2AOE
Jesus Christ, here I am trying to get my head around a Nagoya 771 and a abbree 771. I feel like if I spoke to this bloke about radios it would be like that moment in the Simpsons where homers brain is the monkey banging those cymbals together 🤯
I don’t think I could agree with this because the Moon is an insanely dangerous place for humans to be, and the biggest problems with space are long term life support, radiation and fast moving dust etc. They would have to stay underground for protection, EVAs would be an extremely rare and avoided task and the costs would be beyond imagination. There are so many dangers. Having observed all that I do agree that there may be some people there sometimes, and also lunar amateur band repeaters of all kinds are totally possible and do-able.
Really interesting video Mate. I always remember the guy from TX Factor Bob McCreadie G0FGX using Goonhilly Earth station to hear his own voice coming back to him from the moon. Fantastic that we can do this as amateurs. Thanks to you both.
I've seen that video - it's super cool! A few years ago we were allowed to use the Mt Pleasant tracking station near here to send signals on 23cm via the moon - SSBy and CW copyable I think
Hi Hayden, I've always been fascinated by what can be done at RF. I'm an amateur astronomer and know what can be done at visual wavelengths. I like the way Richard used a Celestron telescope fork mount for the smaller dish. 73 WJ3U
On ~50 Mhz with CW and a Key, u can send an ping, if the sky clear after 2 seconds u got a feedback from moon. that has work every day over long time. With an 10m Dipolantanna in matching condition. The lowes Power wo is has work was 8W in clear night - or 100W with heigher Huminity
Do you know Chinese now send men and women into earth's orbit? I did not know, until like a year ago, they have been doing it for 20 years or so. Anyhow, I noticed that their taikonauts (= astronauts), they cannot stand or walk properly after they come back to the Earth. Even Shenzhou 6 crew, who only stayed for 5 days in orbit, they can hardly stand on their own and sitting and carried by ground crew. Apparently, same phenomenon for Russians too, they can hardly stand on their own after just multiday space mission. That's striking contrast to Space Shuttle crew, who run out of the shuttle in some cases, march out mostly and standing for 20-30 minute briefing, after 15 day orbit. Do you have any information about the contrast?
Uh, Hayden... Of course it came back! It's called the boomerang effect!😆 Gosh, you'd think you would understand that, being from VK land, Hahaha! 🙃😆 Sorry, just had too... Hope all is well for you down under. 73
@@HamRadioDX Actually, you cannot. Moon is only 380,000 km away. Sun is 150,000,000 km away. Jupiter is 588,000,000 km away. I saw power equation for radar, it's inversely proportional to distance ^ 4. So, they are about 1000 times farther, meaning your signal back will be 10^12 fainter. So, if you barely get signal back from the Moon, no way even from Mars. Plus, Jupiter and Sun have very high radio noise, do they not?
What I love about hams…. Is how stark raving mad they are!!! The other day was at the pub with ham mates and they were remote accessing a ham station and antenna they had just commissioned. Whilst the other punters played the pokies we were trying for FT8 DX 🤪. Great video, love the high nerd factor passion. 73 de VK2AOE
Simply Awesome Hayden!
Thanks Matt!
Jesus Christ, here I am trying to get my head around a Nagoya 771 and a abbree 771. I feel like if I spoke to this bloke about radios it would be like that moment in the Simpsons where homers brain is the monkey banging those cymbals together 🤯
Well one day, maybe in 30 years time, there will be a colony on the moon with hams and repeaters... How amazing would that be!
I don’t think I could agree with this because the Moon is an insanely dangerous place for humans to be, and the biggest problems with space are long term life support, radiation and fast moving dust etc. They would have to stay underground for protection, EVAs would be an extremely rare and avoided task and the costs would be beyond imagination.
There are so many dangers.
Having observed all that I do agree that there may be some people there sometimes, and also lunar amateur band repeaters of all kinds are totally possible and do-able.
Imagine the kerchunkers on that repeater
Amazing video rog
Thanks Lewis!
outstanding. EME is the ultimate DX. and at 10ghz on 20w no less.
A great achievement when it all works!
Bravo......I had a friend who had a radio broad cast station licence that bounced the waves off the moon........cheers
Mind billowing stuff . Love it how clever I just wish . Thanks very much Alan from England 🌍🌕💯👍
Wow, that's some special piece of kit!😮 Very cool.💪🤠
Amazing! Thanks for sharing 🙂
Cheers!
Fantastic video!
Thank you very much, glad you liked it
Really interesting video Mate. I always remember the guy from TX Factor Bob McCreadie G0FGX using Goonhilly Earth station to hear his own voice coming back to him from the moon. Fantastic that we can do this as amateurs. Thanks to you both.
I've seen that video - it's super cool! A few years ago we were allowed to use the Mt Pleasant tracking station near here to send signals on 23cm via the moon - SSBy and CW copyable I think
Really enjoyed that Haden
Thanks Paul
Amazing as usual.
Thank you!
Amazing video, clear instruction. 🎉thanks!
It came back and said is there life on earth
Hi Hayden,
I've always been fascinated by what can be done at RF. I'm an amateur astronomer and know what can be done at visual wavelengths. I like the way Richard used a Celestron telescope fork mount for the smaller dish. 73 WJ3U
Very cool. I hope to try EME someday.
It's a real challenge but rewarding Mike. Hope you're well mate!
Another great video presentation - well done guys. VK4UH
Thanks Kevin
Great video I had no idea how to do that and now I do
Nice video of EME.
Thank you very much!
I just want to mention, you have already had this dish in a video before, I think it was missing the radome, but it was on the same trailer.
On ~50 Mhz with CW and a Key, u can send an ping, if the sky clear after 2 seconds u got a feedback from moon. that has work every day over long time. With an 10m Dipolantanna in matching condition. The lowes Power wo is has work was 8W in clear night - or 100W with heigher Huminity
Great video
Thanks!
Amazing bit of kit, how much extra power does the coles bag provide though 😂
at least 3dB :D
Sensational... 🙂
📡🌛 = 😮👍
(One of the few hobbies where, "to the moon" actually means something!)
Editing the whole video I had Savage Garden's "To The Moon and Back" in my head haha
Sorry to hear it. Address unknown ? ;o)
Can we stick a bent pipe transponder on the moon when we go back there please?
Where can i fine more information on the tracker setup? Thanks for the graet video. Marv, N0FJP
More info here - ua-cam.com/video/V3_KX5OSxOY/v-deo.html
Nice Brain Dump! Looks like fun
Goes over my head too... but heaps of cool kit to play with
I sent a signal to the moon, and it stayed there!
The signal bounced back, since it's hollow. :D
Yep!
Do you know Chinese now send men and women into earth's orbit?
I did not know, until like a year ago, they have been doing it for 20 years or so.
Anyhow, I noticed that their taikonauts (= astronauts), they cannot stand or walk properly after they come back to the Earth.
Even Shenzhou 6 crew, who only stayed for 5 days in orbit, they can hardly stand on their own and sitting and carried by ground crew.
Apparently, same phenomenon for Russians too, they can hardly stand on their own after just multiday space mission.
That's striking contrast to Space Shuttle crew, who run out of the shuttle in some cases, march out mostly and standing for 20-30 minute briefing, after 15 day orbit.
Do you have any information about the contrast?
Uh, Hayden...
Of course it came back!
It's called the boomerang effect!😆
Gosh, you'd think you would understand that, being from VK land, Hahaha! 🙃😆
Sorry, just had too...
Hope all is well for you down under.
73
All good mate, was good to see the echos!
@@HamRadioDXI bet it was good to hear. That must be a good signal output, a really fine antenna and a RF quiet area.
Can you get signal back from Jupiter or the Sun?
Maybe
@@HamRadioDX Actually, you cannot.
Moon is only 380,000 km away.
Sun is 150,000,000 km away.
Jupiter is 588,000,000 km away.
I saw power equation for radar, it's inversely proportional to distance ^ 4.
So, they are about 1000 times farther, meaning your signal back will be 10^12 fainter.
So, if you barely get signal back from the Moon, no way even from Mars.
Plus, Jupiter and Sun have very high radio noise, do they not?
@@HamRadioDX But can you give a try?
@@sbkarajan Nope won't work
@@sbkarajan Too far
Great video, thank you. Greg KC1UUS
Obviously an alien returned it. Another conspiracy theory hi. His name is Bounce. This was popular on 2m years ago. Many used a stack of beams.
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Interesting video thanks guys 😊vk7vkk
Thanks Rosco