[time-nuts] 60 KHz Receiver

J. Forster jfor at quik.com
Thu Oct 7 22:02:21 UTC 2010


There was / is? a ground station near Andover Massachusetts also. The
antenna was called a Hogg Horn.

-John

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> 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
> <magnus at 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
>>
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