The reception of Amateur Radio signals bounced off the planet Venus is an impressive acheivement details of which can be seen at
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/march2009/eve.htm It was done using the oldest digital mode CW coupled with modern SDR techniques. A video showing Karl Meinzer DJ4ZC, Freddy ON6UG and the 6 kW 2.4 GHz amplifier used to achieve Earth-Venus-Earth (EVE) can be seen at http://tinyurl.com/EVE13cmAmp The 2.4 GHz amplifier will be used by Radio Amateurs to sent signals to control the P5-A Amateur Radio Mars spacecraft. On its journey to Mars it will initially swing by Venus. GO-Mars with AMSAT-DL's P5A Mission http://www.ticket-to-mars.org/ A video of the Amateur Radio Mars Orbiter P5-A presentation given at the 2008 AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium by Achim Vollhardt DH2VA can be seen via http://tinyurl.com/P5Apresentation English press release at http://tinyurl.com/EVEPressRelease Picture of the team at http://tinyurl.com/EVEBochumTeam Showing from left to right Hermann Hagn (DK8CI), Karl Meinzer (DJ4ZC), James Miller (G3RUH), Achim Vollhardt (DH2VA), Max Münich (DJ1CR), Freddy de Guchteneire (ON6UG), Wolfgang Büscher (DL4YHF), Michael Lengrüsser (DD5ER), Hartmut Päsler (DL1YDD) AMSAT-DL President Peter Guelzow DB2OS and other members of the AMSAT-DL team regularly attend the Colloquium. The 2009 AMSAT-UK Colloquium will be held at the University of Manchester, England from Friday July 24th to Sunday 26th July. Further details at http://www.uk.amsat.org/colloquium AMSAT-UK publish a quarterly newsletter OSCAR News, you can join at https://secure.amsat.org.uk/ 73 Trevor M5AKA Daily Amateur Radio RSS News: http://www.southgatearc.org/ Get Daily Amateur Radio News by Email: http://tinyurl.com/ARemailnews ----
