Since this issue’s offering from Contributing Editor-at-Large PT2ZDX/LU9EFO is about a billion-year-old signal detected by a radiotelescope in Canada, we thought it would be fun to go back in time (not quite a billion years, just 20) to reprise W5FG’s November 2003 report on visiting the father of radioastronomy — Dr. Grote Reber, ex-W9GFZ — in Tasmania shortly before Reber passed away in late 2002.
As a young ham in 1937, Dr. Grote Reber built one of
