[time-nuts] 60 KHz Receiver

[Lester Veenstra]

And at Andover, Comsat took it all down and cut it up to save taxes rather
than save history.

 
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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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