[time-nuts] 60 KHz Receiver

[Chuck Harris]

How much history was lost when whatever stood before the "Old House"
was demolished and bull dozed so that an Opera house (or some such)
could be built?

We are all nostalgic about the past, but doesn't the future deserve
to be born?

-Chuck Harris

Richard W. Solomon wrote:
> 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<Lester at veenstras.com>
>> Sent: Oct 7, 2010 4:34 PM
>> To: 'Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement'<time-nuts at febo.com>
>> 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
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] 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
>> <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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