[TowerTalk] Jamesburg 30 meter Dish Antenna on Ebay

[K8RI on Tower talk]

EME?  Man, think 2.4 gig, 5.5 and on up. Raise the support point so the 
bottom of the dish is about 10 meters off the ground and you could cut a 
path to the horizon and beyond.  Put some power behind it and create your 
own aurora for working 6-meters albeit this might make one a bit unpopular 
with the Wi-Fi crowd.

Let's see.  30 meter dish = 15 meter radius plus 10 meters for ground 
clearance = 25 meters for the mount pivot point.  That's about 77-78 feet. 
Now, any one care to calculate how much concrete and steel it'd take to hold 
the sucker up in 90 MPH winds?  I'd have to buy at least one lot behind me 
and the two along the north side, but that would require moving a road to a 
land locked 64 acre parcel and there's a home on the other side of that. 
Supposed I could claim "Eminent Domain" for communications purposes.

Soooo... If they'd give it to me, delivered I figure I could have it up and 
running for maybe ... oh... ball park (don't hold me to this).. a couple 
million.  Oh, wait!  I don't have that much. Any one care to sign and put up 
collateral for the loan?

Roger Halstead (K8RI and ARRL 40 year Life Member)
N833R - World's oldest Debonair CD-2
www.rogerhalstead.com

> Folks:
> A true 'giant' in telecommunications, the Jamesburg Earth Station, COMSAT
> 'A' dish is for sale on Ebay..  Sad to see that this beauty has not found 
> a
> niche application to continue use.
> It was a crucial link in providing 'live via satellite' video to the 
> world,
> beginning in the late '60s, carrying the 'live from the moon' coverage of
> the Apollo 11 moon landing.
> Could have been heck of a EME antenna.   Perhaps some hams should offer to
> install and fire up an EME station and do a final QSO to the moon.
>
> A bunch of local hams toured the site earlier in the year...what a
> breathtaking sight...
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5840671829<http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5840671829
>
> 73, DX, de Pat Barthelow AA6EG aa6eg at hotmail.com
>
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