On 24th January 2024, Japan successfully landed ‘SLIM’ on the moon. SLIM is the Japanese small lunar landing demonstration vehicle. This made Japan the fifth earth-country to successfully land on the moon.
Just before SLIM landed, it released two small lunar surface probes. ‘LEV-2’ will collect data while moving about the place. ‘LEV-1’ will receive the data from LEV-2, and transmit it onwards via amateur radio. To enable this and to comply with earthly rules, an amateur radio station licence has been officially issued to to LEV-1. The licensee is JAXA Amateur Radio Club, JQ1ZVI. LEV-1s call sign is JS1YMG.
The radiio wave model is listed as 100HA1A, 20K0G2d, 250KF8E. The radio frequency is 437.41Mhz, and the antenna power is 1w.
I’m told that the CW beacon used on JS1YMG has already died, unfortunately.
Which is a shame because, with the moon being made of cheese, it would have been good to have some ham there as well.
You needed to have two bites at this to get the ham and cheese gag in? Goodness me, you need a trip on your bike I think.