{"id":499,"date":"2012-07-20T23:15:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/07\/20\/the-antenna-that-brought-us-apollo-11\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T13:15:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T03:15:52","slug":"the-antenna-that-brought-us-apollo-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/07\/20\/the-antenna-that-brought-us-apollo-11\/","title":{"rendered":"The Antenna that Brought us Apollo 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ACherney_MorningParade900_Labelled1.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"212\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ACherney_MorningParade900_Labelled1.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>July 20\/21 seemed like a good day to point to the beautiful shot of the Parkes Radio Telescope Dish, the magnificent Australian antenna that brought us the video from the Apollo 11 moon walk. Like many of you, I was watching. Three cheers for The Dish! Three cheers for Apollo 11!<\/b><\/span><br \/> <span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/span><br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap120719.html\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap120719.html<\/b><\/span><\/a><br \/> <span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/span><br \/> <span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>As we&#8217;ve mentioned, this antenna and the Apollo 11 reception are the basis of a really nice movie called &#8212; THE DISH. Get it here:<\/b><\/span><br \/> <iframe frameborder=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=contracross-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=B002AJ2OKI&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"height: 240px; width: 120px;\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p> Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a> Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke\">http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a> Our Book Store: <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20\">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 20\/21 seemed like a good day to point to the beautiful shot of the Parkes Radio Telescope Dish, the magnificent Australian antenna that brought us the video from the Apollo 11 moon walk. Like many of you, I was watching. Three cheers for The Dish! Three cheers for Apollo 11! http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap120719.html As we&#8217;ve mentioned, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/07\/20\/the-antenna-that-brought-us-apollo-11\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Antenna that Brought us Apollo 11&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,30,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-radio-astronomy","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions\/501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}