A ham radio weekend for talking to the moon

In a worldwide event, amateur radio operators will talk to each other by bouncing their messages off the craggy face of the moon.
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[Ronlap]

When all else fails - amateur radio!

[screenwriter72]

I think that's SO cool that you can send a ham radio transmission to the moon and back. Too bad if you could do that in 1969, you could actually talk to Neil, Buzz, or Pete Conrad or Alan Bean from your HAM radio. Perhaps in the future, NASA would allow radio communications from Earth on a limited basis!!!

Markus McLaughlin / linuxglobe at twitter.com / Hudson, MA, USA

[luke_marsh]

Is the cup half empty or half full.
One could say that due to the moons orbit and roughness its not a good source to communicate with but looking at the cup half full one could say it's an Ideal time with signal processing and computer power plus equipment of today to have a good crack at making this type of communication more of a possibility.
So seeming as many are ceasing the opportunity I would have to say well done for looking at the half full cup full enough to have a good crack at the challenge.
This Is one of the most pleasing to me things to read about as I like the maths of rough old nature far better than I do more rigid generic styles of working and mathematically learning so Again I wish whomever takes up this challenge my best wishes.
One must remember that with standard maths even with those wavy strokes or fractal one only has a ridged scaler where by natural data from what ever source is the only driving force giving it it's roughness.
There is of course the potential especially to day to advance on such so that we can work more with artificially generated roughness better and understand that side of maths something that Has not been done yet at least with in the realms of recognised intelligentsia and I refute any claims that it has.
I have However done it as I have my own maths my own language and my own model of this place in eternity something I'm proud of but am not not wish of others to discover well and better than me by means of good challenges like EME communications. Certainly the Nature around here has much rough maths that needs to be better understood like say for understanding nucleation processes better on Extra terrestrial planets like mars or for areas such as gravity research where by the degree the maths is inadequately lieing is very detrimental to the potentials of research in more rougher areas of energy formation. Of course the world is a lie mathematically by all accounts and by the laws of eternity always will be by that doesn't mean man can't evolve to a more real picture of this place beyond more god like generic science.
Year so again good wishes to your challenge.