Copernicus Special Event EME Station

Moonbouncing from Olsztyn - the city of Nicolaus Copernicus

3Z4EME is a Special Event EME Station callsign utilized for EME events, activity periods and technical experiments. The station is capable of both JT65 and CW on 144 MHz. Grid locator is KO03hs - the greater Olsztyn area.

Olsztyn, the capital of so-called Country of One Thousand Lakes in North-Eastern Poland, is the city where one of the most famous world astronomers - Nicolaus Copernicus - spent part of his life and performed some astronomical observations.

During 1516–1521 Copernicus resided at Olsztyn Castle as economic administrator of Warmia province ( Kingdom of Poland ). While there, he wrote a manuscript, Locationes mansorum desertorum ( Locations of Deserted Fiefs ) and during the Polish–Teutonic War ( 1519–21 ), Copernicus directed successful defense of Olsztyn and Warmia by Royal Polish forces.

In the cloister of the Olsztyn Castle we can still see the authentic proof of Copernicus work - an astronomical board of dimensions 140x705 cm, an immovable astronomical instrument, the fourth he possessed. It is a kind of an empirical table - it has all the qualities that allowed to lead Copernicus investigations of the inequality of the motion of the Earth.

More on Copernicus life in Olsztyn:
http://copernicus.torun.pl/en/biography/1503-1543/5/?view=film&file=1

More on Copernicus astronomical observations in Olsztyn:
http://copernicus.torun.pl/en/science/astronomy/5/?view=film&file=4