There was / is? a ground station near Andover Massachusetts also. The antenna was called a Hogg Horn.
-John =============== > Could you tell me which book you have on mind ? I'd love to read the > story. > > I visited Telstar ground station in Pleumeur-Bodou, France once. There > is museum > there now, called "Cite des Telecoms". They preserved original > horn-like antenna > used for Telstar communication and lots of original equipment. If I > remember > correctly there is even old hydrogen maser displayed. > Place worth seeing. > > BR, > Piotr, sp3ukk > > On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Magnus Danielson > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 10/07/10 17:09, J. Forster wrote: >>> >>> Telstar was a BIG DEAL! There was even a pop song about it. >> >> Reading the Bell labs books on the Telstar project is very nice. Nice >> fold-outs on control-panels etc. >> >> They did spent a lot of time to engineer the whole thing. Their antenna >> setups that would track the high-dynamic movement due to the low orbit. >> >> Amplifiers was rubin-maser cooled with liquid helium... and stuff like >> that. >> >> Cheers, >> Magnus >> >> _______________________________________________ >> time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] >> To unsubscribe, go to >> https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >> and follow the instructions there. >> > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
