Jamesburg Earth Station
This is the 30-metre wide satellite dish of the
Jamesburg Earth Station. Originally built in 1968 to support
the Apollo 11 moon landing, the Earth Station was shut down in 2002
and put up for sale.
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It was subsequently bought by a group of Ham-radio geeks, who
spent several months restoring it - and in February they actually
got it working, bouncing 20 radio signals off the moon.
There’s a great ground-level shot http://www.jamesburgdish.org/ at the official site, and
it was http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_generic.jsp?channel=aerospacedaily&id=news/restore0312.xml&headline=Space History Buffs Try to Save Sat Dish
Aviation Week that published the original story.
Thanks to http://www.fnord.org jher via http://www.boingboing.net/2007/04/21/hams_restore_histori.html
Boing Boing.
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