This special callsign was approved by Industry Canada for use in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the landing of men on the moon on 20 July 1969. It will be in use from 14 July 2009 until 27 July 2009.  It really is VE3MOON, not VE3MOO :)

QSL via eQSL. Paper cards via VE3OIJ  (Direct with postage, or bureau).  Repeater and IRLP/Echolink contacts can get QSL.  SWL can get QSL by providing sufficient QSO information to be validated.  Only one paper card will be issued per callsign.

The moon photo on the QSL was taken by VE3OIJ and VE3XEJ using a Nikon D100 camera and a Celestron Nexstar 8i telescope during the lunar eclipse of November 2003.

Current planned operations:

14 July: Operating from Canada Museum of Science and Technology (FN25ej) from 1300 - 2030 UTC on 10/15/20/40/80 as time and visitors permit.  Also operating on satellites as they pass overhead.  On satellites will be endeavouring not to overlap with K5E, the special event station in the US. 

16 July: Operating from Canada Museum of Science and Technology (FN25ej) from 1300 - 2030 UTC on 10/15/20/40/80 as time and visitors permit.  Also operating on satellites as they pass overhead. On satellites will be endeavouring not to overlap with K5E, the special event station in the US.

20 July: Operating from Canada Museum of Science and Technology (FN25ej) from 1300 - 2030 UTC on 10/15/20/40/80 as time and visitors permit.  Also operating on satellites as they pass overhead.  On satellites will be endeavouring not to overlap with K5E, the special event station in the US.

The callsign will also be active from other sites during the time period as weather and site-owner permissions allow.  These operations can be on any band from 80m to 70 cm, but will likely concentrate on the HF bands during appropriate hours for each band.

Modes of operation:  FM (Satellite, local), Digital modes (PSK, Feld-Hell, RTTY, CW), SSB phone, SSTV