[LINK] Telstar, 50 this week
Bernard Robertson-Dunn
brd at iimetro.com.au
Wed Jul 11 16:29:23 AEST 2012
I remember it well, living in London at the time. It was all over the
papers and the part I remember most clearly was a story about incorrect
antennae polarisation. I was wondering if it was a myth so looked it up
and, yes there was a problem.
> I was interested to know about the anecdote often heard about the original
> transatlantic video attempt over the Telstar-1 satellite, where, on
> the first pass, the
> attempt failed because the wrong polarisation was set at the Goonhilly
> end of the link.
> Digging deeper, it transpires that there had been a miscommunication
> about the way
> the feed worked between the US suppliers and the engineers at
> Goonhilly (the feed
> was the only US component). Once the fault had been identified and
> fixed, in time for
> the next pass, the first live TV pictures were received, astonishingly
> well within a day
> after Telstar-1’s launch.
www.g6lvb.com/Goonhilly/InfoInOrbit020.pdf
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Regards
brd
Bernard Robertson-Dunn
Canberra Australia
email: brd at iimetro.com.au
website: www.drbrd.com
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