[time-nuts] 60 KHz Receiver

J. Forster jfor at quik.com
Mon Oct 11 03:54:34 UTC 2010


Kind of sad, IMO, the way the US has squandered our space competance.

FWIW,

-John

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> The city of Sunnyvale was thinking of replacing it (the Blue Cube, etc)
> with car dealerships, but decided against it because only 3 dealers would
> fit. I was happy; who needs more car dealers?
>
>
> They now want to do something that won't increase traffic too much. They
> also just opened a bike trail in the wetlands behind Moffet (in reality,
> it took them a few years to remove 2 locks). There are still signs back
> there banning cameras (or they were there a year ago).
>
>
> Dave
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "J. Forster" <jfor at quik.com>
> To: brooke at pacific.net, "Discussion of precise time and frequency
> measurement" <time-nuts at febo.com>
> Sent: Saturday, October 9, 2010 9:27:20 AM
> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] 60 KHz Receiver
>
> About the only doors in the place that did not have electronic combo locks
> were the bathrooms.
>
> Sad to see it's being shut down. IMO, it was one of the kewl places to be
> in the heddy early days of space.
>
> OTOH, it probably makes some sense to muve the thing into the bowels of a
> mountain somewhere.
>
> FWIW,
>
> -John
>
> ==============
>
>
>
>> Hi Dave:
>>
>> Yes, it was right on the central expressway and was part of the GTE
>> military electronics complex.
>>
>> Hi John:
>>
>> My recollection of the antennas at the Blue Cube is that they are out in
>> the open. See photo at:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Cube
>>
>> Have Fun,
>>
>> Brooke Clarke
>> http://www.PRC68.com
>>
>>
>> d.seiter at comcast.net wrote:
>>>
>>> We had similar dome in Sunnyvale (Ca) until the late 80's, but I can't
>>> remember who owned it, maybe GE?; it's all housing now.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Dave
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Arthur Dent"<golgarfrincham at yahoo.com>
>>> To: time-nuts at febo.com
>>> Sent: Friday, October 8, 2010 5:06:34 AM
>>> Subject: [time-nuts] 60 KHz Receiver
>>>
>>> Lester Veenstra-“No, Andover Maine.�
>>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>
>>> The white Dacron fabric dome of the station in Andover,
>>> Maine, really stood out and could be seen by hikers on the
>>> tops of mountains miles away. Somewhere I have photos I
>>> took looking down at that white speck in the distance. On
>>> one of my hiking trips I stopped to check out the facility. The
>>> Dacron fabric dome that was held up only by air pressure
>>> (like a carnival funhouse) was still standing but was scheduled
>>> to be taken down in the near future. Below is a link to a video
>>> about Telstar that appeared on the History Channel and another
>>> link to still photos of the horn and the inside of the dome. The
>>> date given for removal in the second link was 1985 but I was
>>> thinking the dome was removed a few years later than that.
>>>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyfGuSmSHWM
>>>
>>> http://users658.mainememory.net/slideshow/386/display%3Fformat=list&prev_object_id=1050&prev_object=page&slide_num=1.html
>>>
>>>
>>> -Arthur
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> --
>> Have Fun,
>>
>> Brooke Clarke
>> http://www.PRC68.com
>>
>>
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