Help say "hi" to spacecraft Juno on 10/9

tanglefoot

ExPoseur
A friend told me about this...it sounds interesting...

"NASA's Juno spacecraft will fly past Earth on October 9, 2013 to receive a gravity assist from our planet, putting it on course for Jupiter. To celebrate this event, the Juno mission is inviting amateur radio operators around the world to say "HI" to Juno in a coordinated Morse Code message. Juno's radio & plasma wave experiment, called Waves, should be able to detect the message if enough people participate. So please join in, and help spread the word to fellow amateur radio enthusiasts!"

If you have a station and license capable of 10-meter CW operation, you're invited to help contribute to a coordinated, wide-band, very slow-speed CW transmission to University of Iowa's wide-band receiver instrument on board the Juno spacecraft. The transmit frequencies are designated by the last letter of your callsign. The key-down and key-up times appear on the web page...

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/hijuno/

I'm also interested in tuning across the band during a key-down time--that'll probably sound wild!

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