[Moon-net] Moon bounce 101 Story Boards

[Pat Barthelow]

Folks:

A TV Show producer wants to do a story on Jamesburg.

See:   http://www.calgold.com

for the Show/producer's website.  This is not just a news story, but a 
complete piece of considerable length, that will be crafted into a human 
interest story, involving technology, cool space tools, historical space 
program devices, etc, and a great plug for ham radio.  The finished product 
will be able to be  purchased on DVD or tape from the the Production 
company, (and contributed to College and High school libraries, etc) and 
will be played far and wide on our Public TV channels.

I am working hard, and closely with the show producer to set up the date, 
and format of the show/Story that they create.  It may include a hands-on 
participation by the show host, Huell Howser, to participate, himself, in an 
SSB EME contact.  I am working on getting  Der GOVERNOR, ARNOLD, to also be 
present.    I hope to do this during an EME contest weekend to maximize 
impact and successful presentation.  I need to identify an EME station in a 
foreign country with a very powerful SSB station on 1296, that I can set up 
a Sked with, for this TV show opportunity.  Preferably a Foreign country 
with 3rd party agreements, so that the TV host at this end, can directly 
participate.   I need to tap our existing Jamesburg Gang team, and others 
who are interested, to build a special team to max out this rare, high 
profile opportunity.

>From the beginning, more than 2 years ago, I realized that central to the 
theme and future survival of Jamesburg is the value of it as a hands-on 
educational tool for young people.  Properly presented, and promoted, if 
this key aspect is emphasized, there is a much greater chance that we can 
find funding to preserve it.  Jamesburg is at risk of 
demolishment/dismantlement in the long term.

Some of you may not be familiar with what the "Jamesburg Gang"  team have 
been doing for last 2 years, intensively for the last 8 months, at 
Jamesburg.  See the upcoming (June, 2007) issue of CQ-VHF magazine for a 
cover story, and/or visit our website:  http://www.jamesburgdish.org ) for 
information.

Click on:
http://maps.google.com/?q=37300+Comsat+Rd,+Carmel+Valley,+CA+93924&sll=36.39771,-121.64949&sspn=0.01152,0.020084&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=36.401976,-121.646719&spn=0.01152,0.020084&t=h&z=16&om=1
for a Satellite picture of Jamesburg.

I would like to show the TV viewing audience the potential of the site and 
the fact that EME activity is a great academic/educational/training  
exercise for young persons.  So what I would like to do is create some story 
boards, using the white composite foam boards like you see at science fairs, 
that have professional quality Story board graphics on them.  Things like  
Earth-Moon Diagrams to scale, or with pertinent distances, angles, antenna 
gain/ Path loss equations,   Block Diagrams of the Jamesburg Station,   
Photographs of other EME antenna installations,  Some EME history,   Website 
photographs of the Jamesburg Site,  hmmm...just thinking aloud, in real 
time, sort of a hard copy of a Power Point presentation.   In Fact,  PPT  
presentations would perfect source of good story boards to create and post 
at the Operating Position or the control room of Jamesburg that will be 
prominent in any TV coverage.

MOON BOUNCE 101 PPT:
Does anyone have some material, possibly PPT presentations involving EME 
communications that I can use to create some PPT hard copy boards to have on 
display at Jamesburg?   Full credit to sources will be provided for 
storyboard contributions.  (if you can, insert your source info in print at 
the bottom right corner of any PPT slides.)
Contact me.   Time is of the essence....


73, DX, de Pat AA6EG aa6eg at hotmail.com;
Skype: Sparky599
Moon or Bust!--Jamesburg Gang Rides Again!