Re: Fw: Stanford Dish demolition deferred

On 27 Aug 2004 at 13:53, Henry Spencer wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 [email protected] wrote:
> >     In this connection it's worth reminding the list that the Stanford
> >     dish 
> > was used to rescue an amateur satellite (OSCAR 10?) back in the '80s...
> 
> If I'm not mistaken, that was a different dish -- Stanford has one real
> biggie in addition to this set of medium-sized ones. 
> 

    Henry is right, as usual. The year was 1982, the satellite was UO-9, 
and the dish was Stanford's 150-footer, which sits prominently on a ridge 
west of the campus.

    A few more details are in the middle of the transcript of the speech 
found here:

	http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2001/09/25/1/speech.html

Chris