[MRCG] Visit to the Stanford Dish antenna

[john mulhern]

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> On Jun 25, 2022, at 00:49, Geoff Fors <Geoff at wb6nvh.com> wrote:
> Carmel Valley was the Jamesburg AT&T Long Lines station and it was sold by AT&T in 2004 for $ 2 Million when AT&T switched to fiber optic. It was built in 1968 for telephone relay and TV links. Nixon's visit to China was televised through it as were Apollo landings.  When it was sold, everything was still there including the last half-full coffee cups of the AT&T engineers left as they walked out for the last time.  Initially the owner allowed hams to use the antenna for moonbounce but things eventually fell apart and that ended. The 20,000 square foot hardened building was stripped of all equipment and the Caterpillar Diesel generators sold off, and the owner has been trying to sell subdivided sections of the property.  It was too costly to demolish the building or the 11 story dish so there they sit. The owner is attempting to flip the property for something like twice what he paid, but as far as I know, without success.
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> Around 2005 a ham friend and I were given permission by the owner to salvage whatever we wanted from the place over a weekend.  Unfortunately we were not the first and about the only thing left was endless FDM multiplex equipment from the 1980's and a complete step by step telephone exchange capable of serving a small city.  I did take quite a few photos which will eventually make it to my website.
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> Geoff
> WB6NVH
> Monterey
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: JAMES FALLS
> To: West Coast Military Radio Collectors Group
> Sent: Friday, June 24, 2022 11:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [MRCG] Visit to the Stanford Dish antenna
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Jim Falls K6FWT
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>> 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:
>>> 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
>>>>> On June 24, 2022 at 5:45 PM Tim <timsamm at gmail.com mailto:timsamm at gmail.com > wrote:
>>>>  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
>>>>  Tim
>>>>  N6CC
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