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ZERO BIAS: A CQ Editorial

ven Jules Verne couldn’t imagine this one … and it flew right past us last month, when we speculated on our cover about how soon we might see a lunar DXpedition. You might not be aware of this, but since last year, there has been a ham radio satellite orbiting the Moon, primarily sending back photos from the dark side in response to commands from hams on Earth. But if that wasn’t cool enough, LO-94 (Lunar OSCAR-94) also carries a 70-centimeter digital (GMSK-to-JT4G) repeater and, on this past July 1, DK5LA in Germany used that repeater to contact BY2HIT at the Harbin Institute of Technology in China, where the satellite was built. It was the first time an amateur

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