Hi Magnus its was a pity they didn't manage to communicate with some of my office collegues so as to to confirm the "hand" of the polarisation they were using though :-)) Goodhilly changed the feed for the other polarisation on the day of the first test, and it was a bit of a TV disaster. Lanion had a horn so had the same sytem. The horns are long gone except for the microwave background experiment but the Goonhilly Down dish called "Arthur" after a certain medieval king who spent his time whopping Danes :-)) I dont think the dish still carries traffic but it is capable, fully steerables are not needed for telecoms now. Arthur is now a "historic monument" so we do get some things right !!
Alan G3NYK ----- Original Message ----- From: "Magnus Danielson" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 9:16 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] 60 KHz Receiver > 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.
