The first amateur radio contact via “moonbounce,” more formally known as EME (Earth-Moon-Earth) took place 60 years ago, as shown in the October 1960 issue of Electronics World.  The U.S. Navy had been successfully communicating since the late 1940s using the moon as a passive reflector, and on July 17, 1960, hams did the same thing, between W6HB in California and W1BU in Massachusetts.  The successful QSO took place on 1296 MHz, with a 1000 watt klystron tube delivering the full legal power to a parabolic antenna.