SIGNAL BOUNCED OFF MOON
Experiment By Radio Group At Auckland
(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, Sept. 13.
A group of Auckland radio amateurs this afternoon succeeded in sending a radio signal to the United States by bouncing the radio waves off the surface of the moon. It is believed to be the first successful experiment of its kind in New Zealand.
The experiment was made by members of the South Auckland Radio Club from the grounds of the Auckland University school of engineering at Ardmore. Most of the special transmitting equipment used was made by the members themselves. Members of the San Gabriel Valley Radio Group, of California, which received the signal, used highly-sensitive satellite signal receiving equipment to pick up the faint series of radio dashes reflected from the moon. The Auckland group used a special arrangement of transmitting aerials which was aimed by sight at the moon. The signal, with a wavelength of two metres, was in the form of a carrier signal interrupted at fivesecond intervals. The group had been preparing for the experiment for the last six months.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28999, 14 September 1959, Page 12
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