Wednesday, December 07, 2005

 

Ororal Valley Satelite Tracking Station

When we first married Margaret and I moved to Canberra for me to take up a position at the Ororal Valley Satelite Tracking Station where we were responsible to track and record the earth and moon satelites, before any manned launches were allowed.
This photo shows the operations side of the building where the control of the 85ft antenna took place, in the far trees the 2 transmitters for control of the satelittes can just be seen. The car by the boiler house is sitting under a heater so that during cold, some times very cold, weather it will start easily and the wind screens stay clear. The hill to the right was fitted with an 80ft mast with small light and transmitter at the top to allow for testing of the big antenna, part of my job was to go the top to maintain the system,once driving to the antenna I disturbed a Lyre bird crossing the track.
More stories soon
Col

# posted by Unknown @ Wednesday, December 07, 2005
Comments:
Great to see so many familiar faces having fun. Can't wait till I can do the same.
Dot Wyper
# posted by Blogger Unknown : 3:10 pm
 
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