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Offline ThaDood

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West Virginia's Green Bank Rf Telescope gets a TX upgrade!
« on: February 01, 2021, 2016 UTC »
https://public.nrao.edu/news/successful-test-new-planetary-radar/    Seen this on the SWL'ing Post. Ever been there for a tour? It's well worth it! Especially, if you can get a scientist to lead the tour. (Hint-hint..) Don't request the interns to do it.   
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“I am often asked how radio works. Well, you see, wire telegraphy
is like a very long cat. You yank his tail in New York and he
meows in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? Now, radio is
exactly the same, except that there is no cat.”
-Attributed to Albert Einstein, but I ripped it from the latest Splatter .PDF March 2025 issue.

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Re: West Virginia's Green Bank Rf Telescope gets a TX upgrade!
« Reply #1 on: February 10, 2021, 2050 UTC »
It's in the National Radio Quiet Zone. Turn off your radios (all of them) when you enter the zone.

It would be really cool if the radar had enough resolution to see the base of the Apollo lander that was left behind and the "dune buggy" the astronauts used (for the first time in the Apollo program) while on the moon surface.
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Re: West Virginia's Green Bank Rf Telescope gets a TX upgrade!
« Reply #2 on: February 12, 2021, 1830 UTC »
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“I am often asked how radio works. Well, you see, wire telegraphy
is like a very long cat. You yank his tail in New York and he
meows in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? Now, radio is
exactly the same, except that there is no cat.”
-Attributed to Albert Einstein, but I ripped it from the latest Splatter .PDF March 2025 issue.
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