An article about the telescope I helped with:
http://www.w1ghz.org/bigear/bigear.html
I did some of the demolition of the original feed house so they could
build the feed trolley.
On 11/19/2020 4:07 PM, KJ Anderson via BVARC wrote:
For it to have gotten to this point, where the main support cables are
systematically failing, it’s clear they gave up on it a long time
ago. Hard to see this thing be actively abandoned. “We’re going to
ask you to keep working, but we’re not going to pay for the upkeep.”
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*From:* BVARC <bvarc-boun...@bvarc.org> *On Behalf Of *Jonathan
Guthrie via BVARC
*Sent:* Thursday, November 19, 2020 4:03 PM
*To:* mark janzer via BVARC <bvarc@bvarc.org>
*Cc:* Jonathan Guthrie <ka8...@ka8kpn.org>
*Subject:* Re: [BVARC] Arecibo telescope to bite the dust....
There's a lot of that going around. The radio telescope I worked with
in the 1980's is already a golf course.
On 11/19/2020 3:59 PM, mark janzer via BVARC wrote:
Don't tell Joe Taylor (K1JT)
Famed Arecibo telescope, on the brink of collapse, will be
dismantled
<https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/11/famed-arecibo-telescope-brink-collapse-will-be-dismantled>
Famed Arecibo telescope, on the brink of collapse, will be
dismantled
National Science Foundation decides to decommission iconic radio
observatory
73
Mark
K5MGJ
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