[amsat-bb] Fwd: Re: Re: Evidence of moon landings....!

[Edward Cole]

>Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:52:08 -0800
>To: "STeve Andre'" <andres at msu.edu>, amsat-bb at amsat.org
>From: Edward Cole <kl7uw at acsalaska.net>
>Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Re: Evidence of moon landings....!
>
>>
>>LeRoy,
>>
>>I'm not sure how you can have a source other than NASA, other than two hams
>>who made independant recordings of Apollo transmissions.  In 1971 (summer
>>issue) a QST article talks of Dick Knadle(sp?) KRIW who got some, and another
>>ham, I believe W4HHK received signals as well.
>>------snip
>
>Steve you can add my witness of the Lunar orbiter signal on S-band 
>received on a ten foot comm dish that my supervisor with JPL set up 
>in his yard using a diode mixer and a microwave signal generator for 
>LO.  The signal exhibited expected Doppler shift and every 
>20-minutes or so it dropped out (occulted by the Moon as the orbiter 
>orbited behind).  This was not Apollo-11 but one of the other 
>missions afterward, to memory (long time ago - 1971).  We both 
>worked at Goldstone tracking facility back then.  We only detected 
>the carrier since the dish was insufficient size for recovering the 
>modulated signal.
>
>73, Ed - KL7UW (then K8MWA/K6)

Ed, I completely forgot to discuss the reception of the Lunar 
orbiter. Yes, we used an old TS-408/U (military version of a hp 608A 
signal generator) a polaplexer, and Bill Burns 8-foot trailer mounted 
dish. We got good S/N ratio on the carrier, but couldn't recover 
information from the sidebands. If I remember correctly, the downlink 
was about 2287 MHz. The downlink/uplink ratio was 240/221, Milt 
Brockman's ratio we used in the DSN since the L-band days.  73, Dick K6HIJ

So there you have it.

73, Ed - KL7UW