This cookie, set by YouTube, registers a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen. In this short novella Lily Baines is a 20 y/o petty officer in the Women’s Royal Naval Service posted to a Y station in Yorkshire. She spends hours every day just listening and tuning through frequencies in the hopes of finding German intelligence to pass on to Bletchley Park. All of the women wrote down everything they heard and these messages were passed on to the codebreakers at Bletchley periodically throughout the day and night. This short story is definitely a fun read and it was very interesting to learn about the Y stations which were so important to the codebreakers at Bletchley Park.

I want to say this is a timeslip story but that isn’t quite right. It’s more of a time-merging story, or a bit of technological SF sleight of hand story. It’s best to just say that it works. It all works marvelously, and let the how and why of it remain a bit nebulous.One of the great things about it is you’re hooked from the beginning. There isn’t the time for a slow burn to get to know the individuals. We’re thrown straight into the main plot, and it’s all steam ahead from there. A novella available from Kindle Prime. Kate Quinn has written well-researched and informative books of historical fiction based on real people and events. This one is a stretch where she enters the realm of fantasy, and it works! Lily is from a titled English family and has set aside her life as a debutante. It is 1943, and she works at one of the Y stations scattered through the country. The task is intercepting coded enemy communications and sending them to Bletchley Park for decoding. She worries about the outcome of WW2 and whether her friends will survive on the battlefield. Will the allies be defeated by enemy forces, and does her work have any value? Signal Moon”, by Kate Quinn is a bit of a science fiction story involving physics and multi-dimensions. Also, not a genre I gravitate to. Author Kate Quinn is the draw. She is one of my favorite historical fiction authors. The logical side of me knows that it had the best possible ending. The emotional-fool side of me feels let down by the bittersweet feelings it generated. ‘Ye Dil Maange More’, what to do! The stellar map is useless as I don’t think the stars are bright enough to be visible in daylight, even on the moon. If at night, see point 1).

While Matt’s more frank and frequently profane dialog, along with the desperation of his own internal monologue, gives the reader or listener a clear portrait of who he is and what drove him to become the person – and the officer – that he is on the brink of what could be – briefly – his very own war.

Moonbounce or EME (Earth-Moon-Earth) communication presents some of the most significant technical and operating challenges in amateur radio. Since the first two-way amateur QSO via the moon took place in 1960 it has since been followed by many others on every amateur band from 28MHz to 47GHz (with trials now underway at 77GHz). Recently a group of students from the College of New Jersey are attempting to bounce signals off the moon using the LoRa modulation scheme. LoRa is a modulation scheme designed to be used with IoT devices, however it also has great performance when signals are weak so it's a good candidate for moon bounce. Hall, J., & Watson, W. H. (1970). The effects of a normative intervention on group decision-making performance. Human Relations, 23, 299–317. Across an eighty-year gap, Lily and Matt must find a way to help each other: Matt to convince her that the war she’s fighting can still be won, and Lily to help him stave off the war to come. As their connection grows stronger, they both know there’s no telling when time will run out on their inexplicable link. My thoughts

A short story about an impossible connection across two centuries that could make the difference between peace or war. Kate Quinn is known for her thrillers set with real individuals. That changes a little with Signal Moon. Here’s our review of Signal Moon by Kate Quinn. Although most modes have been used with EME, until recently CW dominated. However the advent of weak-signal digital modes, such as JT65 and QRA64, has led to a significant rise in their popularity. Because of the higher sensitivity advantage of digital modes, it is possible to use smaller antennas and lower transmit power and this has permitted many more radio amateurs to become involved in EME. For the first time ever, I kept putting myself in each of their (Lily’s and Matt’s) places and wondered how I would have reacted. This happens to me while reading full-length novels but never during a short story. I love how it dragged me into its action, thereby increasing the impact.

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In a Nutshell: My very first Kate Quinn work, and I loved it! Just a short story and yet what lovely character development and writing! I could almost hear and see the characters. The short story is set in 1943 and 2023. Somehow, Lily Baines in 1943 intercepts radio communications from Matt in 2023. She doesn’t understand how or why. All she knows is that Matt is about to die, and she needs to get a message to him in some way. She needs to make sure whatever the war is in the future can be won. This was an engaging, suspenseful and emotional story. I was wishing that there was some way Matt and Lily could meet in person through time and space, but their radio connection with its dual storyline, one from the past and one from the near future, was compelling and worked very well. In the early days amateur EME stations needed huge antenna systems, very high power transmitters and complex receiving set-ups. Today EME operation is within reach of most amateurs with a reasonable VHF station capability and enables long distance VHF/Microwave QSOs between many countries across the globe.

This story was so beautiful it just about broke me. It was gorgeous and glorious and heartbreaking all at the same time, and I was in tears at the end. Signal Moon by Kate Quinn was a brilliant piece of WWII fiction with a dash of speculative fiction thrown into the mix that I would highly recommend to everyone. Seriously, go read it now! We know Quinn for her novels set in the past. There’s always some sort of thriller to the tale, but the focus is always on real individuals from the past. Whether it’s a German Nazi trying to live free in the 1970s or a mystery surrounding codebreakers in the 1940s, there’s something that connects us to a very real past. Using the LR1110 RF chip, the team also measured the frequency offset due to the Doppler effect caused by the relative motion of the Earth and the Moon.Yes, ma’am.” Lily blew on her mittened fingers. No one bothered to take off the coats bundled over their uniforms; it was far too cold. One of the advantages of joining the Wrens was supposed to be that sleek, dashing, brass-buttoned uniform (designed by Molyneux!), but no one ever saw the uniform here; Lily and her fellow Y Station listeners spent every shift bundled. This leads to a story of two people communicating across time. Of course, they don’t want to initially believe it’s possible, but how else can they explain everything? The question is whether Matt can find a way to keep himself and his fellow colleagues alive in the coming battle. Signal Moon book review The strength of this story is in the characters. The author sketches us a complete picture of Lily and her wartime service with just a bit of description and a whole lot of Lily’s internal monologue as she goes through her day pretending that everything is going to be alright even though she’s scared right down to her not-nearly-warm-enough fingertips that all is already lost. During any one lunar month (approximately 28 days) any two places on the globe will have mutual visibility of the moon, permitting communications by EME, to take place. At the extremes this may only be for a few minutes, but at shorter separations, such as with Europe or between Europe and North America, the moon may be mutually visible for many hours at a time. She just wrote until her hand burned and listened til her ears bled, the entire person and essence of the Honorable Lily Baines stripped down to a pair of ears and a pair of hands.