ERPS Mailing List Are you interested in a surplus radio telescope? Or do you know someone or some organization that would want one ?
Please see the message below. If you're interested, please let me know and I will forward your inquiry to my contact. Sincerely, John McGowan Chairman, Northern California Mars Society Northern California Mars Society Web Site: http://chapters.marssociety.org/northca/ NorCal Mars Society Yahoo Group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mars-norcal/ John McGowan's Web Site: www.jmcgowan.com John McGowan's E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] John McGowan's Phone: (650) 941-1757 > > Stanford is getting ready to decommission and demolish one of the > radio telescope sites in the Stanford Foothills. This site on > Alpine Road near SLAC has five 60 foot diameter dishes in a linear > array. It was built in the 1960s and used until the 1980s for solar > heliography. > > Before destroying the dishes, Stanford is looking for anyone that might > want to use the site for further radio astronomy research or for > anyone who would like to have the dishes and would like to move them > somewhere else. > > On a historical note, this site was important in its day and apparently > several well-known astronomers visited it. A tradition developed where > such visitors would chisel their names into the concrete pedestal of > one of the dishes. Some well-known names are still there including > Lowell's. > > On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, John F. McGowan, Ph.D. wrote: > > > Hello Ray -- > > > > Just a reminder. Please send me an e-mail about the surplus radio dishes > > from Stanford. I will forward it to the people that I know that might have > > some interest or know someone who would. > > > > John > > > > _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
