What was needed was a ham in space. The first attempt to get an amateur radio station into space with a licensed operator started in the waning days of the Apollo era. Owen Garriott (W5LFL ...

A new entrance to West Ham station is due to open at the end of 2026. Developer Berkeley is building 3,800 new homes next to the station, and has also committed to fund the delivery of a new entrance.

Of these, the LEV-1 is not only capable of direct to Earth transmission, but it also has been assigned its own amateur radio license: JS1YMG, which makes it the first Ham radio station on the Moon.

The matter was subsequently forwarded to the International Monitoring Station (Radio) in Kolkata for tracking. Ham radio operators have also been asked to monitor and report if similar signals are ...