[MRCG] Visit to the Stanford Dish antenna

[JAMES FALLS]

There was/is an abandoned Cold War one up Carmel Valley that was activated briefly for moon-bounce ops. I think they used a conventional all-band SSB transceiver for the VFH. 

Anyone recall this? The property was to be repurposed as a vineyard/winery. The bunker proved very difficult to demolish because it was designed to withstand a nuke. 

Jim Falls K6FWT 

> On Jun 24, 2022, at 16:34, john j mulhern <gini2john at gmail.com> wrote:
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> It was used to reset a satellite command receiver accidentally turned off during testing - a major oops
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>> On Jun 24, 2022, at 4:24 PM, MICHAEL BITTNER <mmab at cox.net> wrote:
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>> Tim, Thanks for posting this Stanford Dish video.  It sure brings back memories.  I was a student there at the time living in a spare room in a professor's house within site of the dish as it was being built.  The mesh was being applied by students armed with vise-grip pliers to twist the wire holding the mesh onto the frame.  After it was completed, my lab professor, well known ham Oswald (Mike) Villard, regaled us with accounts of using the dish with a 6-meter Gonset Communicator.  Mike, W6MAB
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>>>> On June 24, 2022 at 5:45 PM Tim <timsamm at gmail.com mailto:timsamm at gmail.com > wrote:
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>>>   Military Comms related? (Well, SIGINT anyway...) Yes! Plus Apollo etc...
>>>   You's might find this interesting...I did!
>>>   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj3ZuphVxsE
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>>>   Tim
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