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Re:Private company landing on the moon today by tcmart14 on Thursday February 22, 2024 @07:31PM (#39475327)
Been out of it awhile so i was thinking 6m, mighta gotten mixed with the scatter-e propagation. But I knew a guy down in San Diego who used to do EME bounces with cheap directional antennas he homemade. But that guy was also an EE at Qualcomm there.

But that was 6 years ago and since I've moved up to Oregon, I havnt gotten to do much ham stuff because I could never hit the repeaters around here. Maybe they are no longer up, maybe its all the hills and volcanic rock?

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Re:Private company landing on the moon today by op00to on Thursday February 22, 2024 @07:41PM (#39475409)
You can make it work with normal human antennas, as long as the other person has the big ones! I could never contact someone with the same antenna and radio as me via the MOON, but I can on certain days be heard by those big dogs!

Meteor scatter is pretty fun though!

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