{"id":2676,"date":"2013-11-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.iaru-r2.org\/arecibo-observatory-50th-anniversary-special-event\/"},"modified":"2020-03-10T21:04:06","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T20:04:06","slug":"arecibo-observatory-50th-anniversary-special-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/arecibo-observatory-50th-anniversary-special-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Arecibo Observatory 50<sup class=\"ordinal\">th<\/sup> Anniversary Special Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Arecibo-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2513\" alt=\"20010724-LSC-0007\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Arecibo-4-150x98.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"98\"><\/a>Special event station <span class=\"caps\">KP4AO<\/span>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.naic.edu\/\">Arecibo Observatory<\/a> in Puerto Rico will be on the air Sunday, November 10, 1230\u2009\u2013\u20092000&nbsp;<span class=\"caps\">UTC<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>\u0093We will be on the air commemorating our 50<sup class=\"ordinal\">th<\/sup> anniversary of Radio Astronomy Science,\u0094 explains Angel M. Vazquez, <span class=\"caps\">WP3R<\/span>, the head of telescope operations and <span class=\"caps\">RFI<\/span>\/spectrum manager at the facility. \u0093We will operate 20 meter phone only at around 14.250 MHz.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The observatory is inviting radio amateurs to operate the station. Vazquez says the <span class=\"caps\">KP4AO<\/span> ops will be transmitting right from the control room of the William E. Gordon telescope, the world\u0092s largest and most sensitive radio telescope, commissioned in November 1963.<\/p>\n<p>A commemorative certificate will be available for those who make contacts with <span class=\"caps\">KP4AO<\/span> (include a&nbsp;<span class=\"caps\">SASE<\/span>) as well for those who operate the station. <span class=\"caps\">QSL<\/span> to Arecibo Observatory Radio Club, <span class=\"caps\">HC03<\/span>, <span class=\"caps\">PO<\/span> Box 53995, Arecibo, <span class=\"caps\">PR<\/span>&nbsp;00612.<\/p>\n<p>The special event is sponsored by the Caribbean Amateur Radio Group and the Arecibo Observatory Radio Club. The National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center (Arecibo Observatory) is a&nbsp;facility of the National Science Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>(Source: The <span class=\"caps\">ARRL<\/span> web&nbsp;page)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special event station <span class=\"caps\">KP4AO<\/span>&nbsp;Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico will be on the air Sunday, November 10, 1230\u2009\u2013\u20092000&nbsp;<span class=\"caps\">UTC<\/span>. \u0093We will be on the air commemorating our 50<sup class=\"ordinal\">th<\/sup> anniversary of Radio Astronomy Science,\u0094 explains Angel M. Vazquez, <span class=\"caps\">WP3R<\/span>, the head of telescope operations and <span class=\"caps\">RFI<\/span>\/spectrum manager at the facility. \u0093We will operate 20 meter phone only&nbsp;at&nbsp;[\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}