That's the same short-sighted, profit is king mentality that resulted in the demolition of the Metropolitan Opera's "Old House". So much history in that building, just bull- dozed for an office building (or some such).
73, Dick, W1KSZ -----Original Message----- >From: Lester Veenstra <[email protected]> >Sent: Oct 7, 2010 4:34 PM >To: 'Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement' <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [time-nuts] 60 KHz Receiver > >And at Andover, Comsat took it all down and cut it up to save taxes rather >than save history. > > >Lester B Veenstra MØYCM K1YCM >[email protected] >[email protected] >[email protected] > > >US Postal Address: >PSC 45 Box 781 >APO AE 09468 USA > >UK Postal Address: >Dawn Cottage >Norwood, Harrogate >HG3 1SD, UK > >Telephones: >Office: +44-(0)1423-846-385 >Home: +44-(0)1943-880-963 >Guam Cell: +1-671-929-8141 >UK Cell: +44-(0)7716-298-224 >US Cell: +1-240-425-7335 >Jamaica: +1-876-352-7504 > >This e-mail and any documents attached hereto contain confidential or >privileged information. The information is intended to be for use only by >the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you are not the >intended recipient or the person responsible for delivering the e-mail to >the intended recipient, be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution >or use of the contents of this e-mail or any documents attached hereto is >prohibited. > >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >Behalf Of Piotr Kolodziejczyk >Sent: 08 October 2010 07:32 >To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement >Subject: Re: [time-nuts] 60 KHz Receiver > >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. _______________________________________________ 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.
