[time-nuts] 60 KHz Receiver

[Don Latham]

And an Astounding Science Fiction novella --the trouble with telstar--
Don

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Magnus Danielson" <magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org>
To: <time-nuts at febo.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 2:16 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
>
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