surplus radio telescope available

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Are  you interested in a surplus radio telescope?  Or do you know someone or
some organization that would want one ?

Please see the message below.  If you're interested, please let me know and
I will forward your inquiry to my contact.

Sincerely,

John McGowan
Chairman, Northern California Mars Society
Northern California Mars Society Web Site:
http://chapters.marssociety.org/northca/
NorCal Mars Society Yahoo Group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mars-norcal/
John McGowan's Web Site: www.jmcgowan.com
John McGowan's E-mail: [email protected]
John McGowan's Phone: (650) 941-1757


>
> Stanford is getting ready to decommission and demolish one of the
> radio telescope sites in the Stanford Foothills.  This site on
> Alpine Road near SLAC has five 60 foot diameter dishes in a linear
> array.  It was built in the 1960s and used until the 1980s for solar
> heliography.
>
> Before destroying the dishes, Stanford is looking for anyone that might
> want to use the site for further radio astronomy research or for
> anyone who would like to have the dishes and would like to move them
> somewhere else.
>
> On a historical note, this site was important in its day and apparently
> several well-known astronomers visited it.  A tradition developed where
> such visitors would chisel their names into the concrete pedestal of
> one of the dishes.  Some well-known names are still there including
> Lowell's.
>
> On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, John F. McGowan, Ph.D. wrote:
>
> > Hello Ray --
> >
> > Just a reminder.  Please send me an e-mail about the surplus radio
dishes
> > from Stanford.  I will forward it to the people that I know that might
have
> > some interest or know someone who would.
> >
> > John
> >
> >