Eavesdropping on the moon, circa 1969

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Eavesdropping on the moon, circa 1969

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In July, 1969, a ham radio operator named Larry Baysinger, from Louisville, KY, used a 20-year old radio from an army tank and a homemade folded dipole antenna array to listen to the Apollo 11 astronauts on the moon. This page is an archive with the original newspaper piece, ...

ohgizmo.com - 22 days ago

Next Room Eavesdropping Device

— ohgizmo.com — By Andrew Liszewski The next time you leave a room you don’t have to wonder what everyone... is saying about you. You can simply whip out this compact eavesdropping device and find out for yourself. It looks a bit like the business end of a ... (more) Next Room Eavesdropping Device

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Retro Thing: Listening In On The Apollo 11 Astronauts... From Home

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Maker from Louisville in 1969. http://bit.ly/1CfGi5 24 days ago

Make: Online : Eavesdropping on the moon, circa 1969: In July, 1969, a ham radio operator named Larry Baysinger.. http://bit.ly/2NnjVu 25 days ago

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Listening In On The Apollo 11 Astronauts... From Home
Retro Thing — ... Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin on the lunar surface and their orbiting companion Michael Collins. But the signals were received directly from the moon, over a quarter of a million miles away, not through Houston Space Center." Brilliant stuff. I wish we could recapture the excitement of the space race instead of squandering trillions of dollars irradiating vast swathes of desert with depleted uranium. Read: Lunar Eavesdropping in Louisville, Kentucky [via Make] ...