🚀 go-pugleaf

On 23 Apr 1998 22:27:39 GMT, fedrick@dendrite.cs.colorado.edu (Kelvin
Fedrick) wrote:

>In article <353fb3c8.1118740@news.dimensional.com>,
>Scott Weiser <weiser@dimensional.com> wrote:
>>On 23 Apr 1998 16:25:24 GMT, fedrick@dendrite.cs.colorado.edu (Kelvin
>>Fedrick) wrote:
>>
>>>In article <353e79b9.446875591@news.dimensional.com>,
>>>Scott Weiser <weiser@dimensional.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Excuse me?  It's a barren gravel plain covered with diffuse knapweed
>>>>and has been used to mine gravel, not to mention the fact that there
>>>>are a couple of large radiotelescopes on the top....
>>>
>>>Radio telescopes? I don't think so. I believe they are just satellite
>>>antennas.
>>
>>No, they are astronomical radiotelescopes.
>
>I spoke with some coworkers a few cubies down and discovered there is indeed
>one radio telescope still being operated on the site by an amateur astronomy
>group (presumably it's still owned by the Dept of Commerce). However, NOAA
>SEC (where I work) operate two satellite dishes on the site for receiving
>GOES satellite data. The two people next to my office are responsible for
>maintaining them. As far as they know the rest of the stuff at the site is
>not used at all, although someone looked into using on of the older dishes
>for tracking another satellite (ACE) which we obtain data from.

Facinating...thanks....I wonder if they could be pursuaded to allow
some EME (moon bounce) amateur experiments...

>
>-kelvin

Regards,

Scott Weiser

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