DQ11APOLLO is a special-event station of the Deutsche Amateuer-Radio-Club (DARC) celebrating the 40th anniversary of the first manned landing on the moon by NASA.

July 20, 2009 marked the 40th annnivesary of the first manned landing on the moon by the Apollo-11 mission. To celebrate this brilliant technical achievement of NASA, a group of space-flight enthusiast radio amateurs of the Deutsche Amateur-Radio-Club applied for the special-event callsign DQ11APOLLO. It was issued on July 15, 2009 and is valid 365 days. The station will be activated on the mission-dates of the past Apollo flights on all HF, VHF & UHF-bands using SSB, CW, FM and PSK.

The call will be activated during several occasions in 2009 and 2010:

Apollo 12 November 14-24, 2009
Apollo 17 December 07-19, 2009
Apollo 8 December 21-27, 2009
Apollo 14 January 31-Feb 9, 2010
Apollo 9 March 03-13, 2010
Apollo 13 April 11-17, 2010
Apollo 16 April 16-27, 2010
Apollo 10 May 18-26, 2010.

Buereau-cards via DF3JO, c/o Deutscher Amateur-Radio Club-DARC, Germany. Direct-cards via DF3JO, Thomas Stinder, Braukkamp 11, 48249 Dülmen, Germany

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