[MRCG] Visit to the Stanford Dish antenna

[Marc Goldman]

 Hello Jim
OK I was personally involved with that project.  it was ONLY a 1 hour drive from my house in Seaside,the others came from Sunnyvale and the East Bay etc ...  Where shall we start..i have HUNDREDS of photos and so does Thor Rasmussen   i helps unstick a clutch on the azimuth drive.  I worked on the air compressor   I work on trying to un stick the like 4 inch diameter lock pin. that kept the dish in "bird bath" position    Jim Moss N9JIM was one of the brains behind the operation
I have a LOT of stories to tell...
actually  is was NOT cold war Military  it was  an AT&T earth station  one of the first uses was transmitting Video of Richard Nixon's visit to China    Jeff Bullis was the owner when the hams were doing moonbounce I even said hello and about 3 seconds later you here "hello" come back from the moon  many of us were Cal Poly San Luis Obispo alumni  and one of the guys was i think a recent graduate so we told "war stories" about W6BHZ and on and on..
the building is still there..  I am of the opinion. just my opinion. that the company that bought it.. is a front compy and rather secretive.. my two cents worth is it is a west coast version of the Sugar Grove Naval radio receiver staton.. it can see the Atlantic but NOT  the Pacific..   Jamesburg can see the Pacific.. it was pointed to a Satellite now long worn out etc.. over the international Date Line.. 180 west or 180 east. your choice...it took considerable toing to disable alarms  so that it would track the moon. a ham came up with some software from some French guy and got it to drive the dish from moon rise to moon set..the ball bearings on the azimuth are the size of grapefruits!!
I can go on and on...
73Marc GoldmanWB6DCESeaside,CA(831) 394-1875  home

    On Friday, June 24, 2022 at 11:27:09 PM PDT, JAMES FALLS <radio-tuber at att.net> wrote:  
 
 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!
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