They're still trying to sell it to somebody who wants to use the dish, but the dish is useless for telecom... Except maybe for radio astronomy.
>From a transpacific satellite communications perspective it made total sense to scrap all of the modem and power amplifier gear. Tx/Rx TDM equipment that would formerly occupy six 44U racks and consume 12kW of power can be replaced by a 2U Cisco or Juniper router, a 1U rackmount satellite modem: http://www.comtechefdata.com/products/satellite-modems/cdm-760 and a hub mount several hundred watt solid state BUC+SSPA, like: http://www.advantechwireless.com/products/4-c-band-400w-hubmount-sspasspb-sapphireblu-superwideband-series-ultralinear-gan-technology/ On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 1:40 PM, Seth Mattinen <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1/28/16 13:05, Eric Kuhnke wrote: > >> Looks like the remains of pedestal foundations for dishes the same age >> and era as the Jamesburg dish, which is becoming increasingly >> rotted/rusted as the current owner is determined to sell it, but only >> for a very high price: >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamesburg_Earth_Station >> >> >> http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/02/earth-station-the-afterlife-of-technology-at-the-end-of-the-world/252454/ >> >> > According to that the owner has been gutting and scrapping it. What a > shame. That would be one awesome place if it was more or less intact. > > ~Seth >
