LoRa to the Moon and Back

Radio amateur Jan van Muijlwijk PA3FXB along with Tammo Jan Dijkema and Frank Zeppenfeldt successfully sent an amateur radio 430 MHz band LoRa message to the Moon and back

They used a Semtech LR1110 RF LoRa transceiver chip feeding a 350 watt amplifier which in turn was fed into the 25m dish antenna at the Dwingeloo radio telescope. One of the messages even contained a full LoRaWAN frame.

The Dwingeloo radio telescope, operated by the CAMRAS foundation, has a history of being used in amateur radio experiments and is now often used for Moon bounces, but this was the first time a data message was bounced using a small RF chip.

More Information - https://www.camras.nl/en/blog/2021/first-lora-message-bounced-off-the-moon/

Centenary of Transatlantic Amateur Signals

December 2021 marks the centenary of the first amateur radio signals crossing the Atlantic.

Signals from the USA were received by Paul Godley, 2ZE, at a specially prepared receiving setup at Ardrossan in Scotland.

From 1 to 26 December 2021, all UK and Crown Dependency licensees may add the suffix /2ZE to their amateur call sign to mark the centenary.

A programme of celebratory events will take place throughout December 2021 on both sides of the Atlantic—more details will be included in next week’s GB2RS News.

Transatlantic Test Centenary - http://www.transatlantic.org.uk/

Radio Ham has over 500 Wireless Sets

Bernard Pottin (F6CND) has been collecting for twenty years old radio sets. In the garage of his house in Bouquigny, in the Marne, he has accumulated more than 500.

Bernard Pottin spends hours in his garage in Bouquigny, west of Epernay in the Marne, repairing his radio sets. The oldest can only pick up long wave.

Bernard has been passionate about radio since childhood. "At my parents' house, there were TSF [wireless telegraphy] stations where you could listen to amateur radio," he says. This is where the passion was born. I became a radio amateur in 1972. Then I developed this collection about twenty years ago."

Bernard sometimes manages to receive BBC programs in the United Kingdom, "but very weakly". Destroyed by television and replaced by transistors, the wireless counts its last hours of reception on the long waves.

Media Story - https://france3--regions-francetvinfo-fr.translate.goog/grand-est/marne/marne-ce-passionne-possede-plus-de-500-postes-de-radio-2344774.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=nui