[time-nuts] 60 KHz Receiver

[paul swed]

Indeed its a common mistake that everyone thinks its ma.
Andover me was chosen because its was miles from any place and was in a hole
essentially.
They strung microwave towers to the place.

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 9:06 PM, J. Forster <jfor at quik.com> wrote:

> Oops. I didn't know there was an Andover ME.
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> Thanks,
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> -John
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> > jfor at quik.com said:
> >> There was / is? a ground station near Andover Massachusetts also. The
> >> antenna was called a Hogg Horn.
> >
> > Andover Massachusetts or Andover Maine?
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> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andover_Earth_Station
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> > Hogg seems to be the guy (or main guy) who put a parabolic reflector on a
> > horn.  If you rotate the whole thing around the Z axis and and then
> rotate
> > the horn around the X axis, you can aim at anyplace in the sky.
> >   http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/butowsky5/astro4k.htm
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