On 27 Aug 2004 at 13:53, Henry Spencer wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > In this connection it's worth reminding the list that the Stanford
> > dish
> > was used to rescue an amateur satellite (OSCAR 10?) back in the '80s...
>
> If I'm not mistaken, that was a different dish -- Stanford has one real
> biggie in addition to this set of medium-sized ones.
>
Henry is right, as usual. The year was 1982, the satellite was UO-9,
and the dish was Stanford's 150-footer, which sits prominently on a ridge
west of the campus.
A few more details are in the middle of the transcript of the speech
found here:
http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2001/09/25/1/speech.html
Chris
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