satellite pictures

[TheReaper]

Sweet

[GlassCurtain]

That's really cool. Thanks for the info!!

[the_stuart]

My university has microfilm of the Gazette going back to 1819. If you can give me some dates to look up I will find the articles, scan them, and post.

Also, sorry for being picky, but quit calling this thing a satellite. It's a satellite dish, the satellite is what it communicates, or used to communicate with.

[GlassCurtain]

I'd say about the Jan 1965 to Feb 1969 mark. Those are the 2 dates I've seen.

[bugo]

There's an abandoned swinging bridge a couple of miles from this site. If anybody wants directions to it I can provide them.

[Scoutin]

I grew up south of where this is and I've heard rumors of this structure, now I can finally go see it. Thanks for all the research already!

[wandering]

Punch in the coords into terraserver and you can find it but no good stallite photos BUT it does say
"Search Accuracy - This search location resolved to a discrete address."
So at one time is a sensitive facility.

[TheReaper]

Anybody ever get anygood pictures from this place? I remember it was once a hot topic

[GlassCurtain]

What do you mean by good pics? Artistic? If so then no.

[redox]

damn! I remember that thread.. badass location. I wonder how things look today.

[fishmantx]

Here is "Early Bird" or Intelsat 1. That was the ground station dish for the downlink. Remember also (after reading the wiki) that this was the first commercial satellite-ground station link. Satellite communications was nearly non-existent until this. This was the very razors edge of communications, so it would be used in research as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelsat_I

Oh and the little white box thingee? was a cableway access or "pullbox".
The latter pic with the "drive unit" was probaly a positioner for LNB reflector polarization or off-axis tuning. Notice there was not much travel room on the "plate". Off-axis is my guess...

[xdanox]

I have frequented this site many a time. There are more goodies deeper into Hopper.

[Nicotti]

Update: The site was added to the National Registrar of Historic Places in 2017.