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From: add@v7fs1.UUCP (Andrew D. Daniel)
Newsgroups: sci.space,rec.ham-radio
Subject: Re: S-Band Beacon on Moon
Message-ID: <448@v7fs1.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jul 89 23:15:39 GMT
References: <1473@xn.LL.MIT.EDU> <1989Jul17.230138.26746@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: add@v7fs1.UUCP (Andrew D. Daniel)
Organization: Video7, Cupertino, CA
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In article <1989Jul17.230138.26746@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <1473@xn.LL.MIT.EDU> wjc@XN.LL.MIT.EDU (Bill Chiarchiaro) writes:
>>... a radio transmitter that was left on the Moon ... still operating.
>
>As far as I know, all the Apollo lunar-surface transmitters were shut
>down ... to save some trifling amount of money!!!

Am I missing something here?
How could shutting down something already on the moon save ANY money?

I DID hear that NASA recently shut down a listening station that was picking
up signals from moon-based instruments to save $2M per year, but that
the instruments themselves were still operating.



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Andrew D Daniel, Video Seven, Inc.           Angels fear to tread
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