Moon-When we went to the moon

[W2PFY]

Did anyone listen to the live feed via a ham receiver or old piece of military gear to monitor the trips to and from the moon? I missed it other than TV coverage. If you did, please let me know what gear you used and what frequencies they were on.

Also let me know how far they would have been from earth to hear them assuming the beam of RF signal would have needed to, fan out to whatever state your located in.

[Todd, KA1KAQ]

Terry, there's a site with some of those recordings preserved, I think it may include the types of equipment used as well. I'll look around and see if I can remember where it was. Might've been something to do with a Collins site, since Art's gang built the mission gear?

Included at the bottom of the post is the Sputnik audio file I found some years ago. Sure wish I'd been around in '57 to listen in and see it pass overhead.

Watched and listened to the Astronauts working on the ISS two days ago via the NASA live feed. Pretty interesting stuff.

[KB2WIG]

FYI   There was a cover on Q STreet in the early 70's showing a guy who built a rcvr and ant to listen in. And yes, he was wearing a tie...   klc

[WA1GFZ]

I seem to remember it being a classified frequency until some ham determined the antenna length and did the math.

[Tom WA3KLR]

As I recall, the NASA spacecraft S-band telemetry/voice channel used was published.  At the time, everything transmitted was multiplexed on that one carrier.

As far as the ALSEP packages left on the moon's surface, I don't recall if their frequency was published or not.  But I think they were S-band also.

The signals were heard by people on planet Earth besides NASA, using dish antennas.

[W1RKW]

http://www.svengrahn.pp.se/trackind/Apollo17/APOLLO17.htm

http://www.svengrahn.pp.se/

[W1GFH]

And they were using AM...

[k4kyv]

The signals were heard by people on planet Earth besides NASA, using dish antennas.

And you KNOW the Russians were listening.  To all those conspiracy theorists who claim the whole thing was faked and that we never went to the moon, don't you know the Russians would have figured that out pretty quickly and it would have been a grand propaganda coup when they exposed it to the world, since the primary mission of Apollo was political (getting there before the Russians), not scientific.

[Ed/KB1HYS]

When we dreamed Bigger Dreams...

"One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind"

Perhaps the greatest achievement of the 20th century, when every kid wanted to be an Astronaught.

Slide rules, hard work, and lots of courage...
 

What could possibly compare since???