I have always held an interest in continuing to explore the edges of ham radio, and what better Edge to explore is one of bouncing radio waves off of the moon!
I've always had an interest in this, but I know that in order to do something really effective with a Suburban lot, I really needed to get on 1.2 GHz. While there is certainly a lot of activity on 2 m, the real estate I probably would need for something like this with a multi-yagi array, would be somewhat prohibitive, especially from a spousal standpoint, so an idea of getting on 1.2 GHz with either a couple of yagi antennas, or even a dish made a lot of sense to me. But this whole idea had taken a backseat for quite a few years.
I can't remember who really started to kick off this whole journey, but my partner in crime, Eric, KC9QLO was definitely a trigger for me, and maybe I was a trigger for him, because before I knew it, we both bought Icom 905 radios, and started to build our own 1.2 GHz yagi antennas.
So here we are, in gear acquisition mode... At this point purchasing the Icom 905 to at least start with capabilities in the 1.2 GHz range.
I will say, we do have aspirations of playing around with 10 GHz at some point in time, and maybe even some of the intermediate frequencies like 2.4 and 5 GHz. Maybe those might be terrestrial explorations, we will eventually see.
