Long long gone completely though I think a plack is there. It was on chronicle several years ago.
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 6:02 PM, J. Forster <j...@quik.com> wrote: > 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 > > <mag...@rubidium.dyndns.org> 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 -- time-nuts@febo.com > >> To unsubscribe, go to > >> https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > >> and follow the instructions there. > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > > To unsubscribe, go to > > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > > and follow the instructions there. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
