Can I Hear The Moon With A Coffee Can?

Published at : 23 Dec 2025

I tried listening to Earth-Moon-Earth (EME or Moonbounce) communications with some of my signature cheap satellite junk! It wasn't all that sucessful, but I did see some faint signals that might have been ham radio EME on 23cm. This is a project I'll have to come back to some day when I have better equipment!

Some of the things I mentioned in this video are:
EME Basics: https://hamradio.engineering/eme-moonbounce-bouncing-signals-off-the-moon/
Skytrack software for antenna pointing at the moon etc: https://github.com/ghostop14/skytrack
Cantenna calculator: https://www.changpuak.ch/electronics/cantenna.php
NanoVNA Antenna tuner: https://amzn.to/3XfKovf
Moon position calculator: https://www.mooncalc.org/
EME activity logger: https://logger.hb9q.ch/


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