45 Million Miles from Earth

45 Million Miles from Earth
A free event presented by the Institute of Electrical Engineers

In this, the first of the 2006 programme of IEE Lectures in
Bournemouth, Radio Ham Paul Marsh describes how he built and used a
home made receiver to sucessfully recieve signals from NASA's Mars
Reconnaissance Orbiter transmitting in X-band at a staggering range of
45 million miles from Earth. As NASA's New Horizons' mission to Pluto
gets underway, for how long can amateurs keep pace with the space race?


Speaker: Paul Marsh, IBM and keen Radio Ham
Venue: Allsebrook Lecture Theatre, Bournemouth University
Date and Time: Tea/Coffee from 6:30pm. Presentation from 7pm, Thursday
2nd March 2006
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