A bunch of HAM radio folks bought and restored the 1968 Apollo com dish –
A chance reading of a “for sale” advertisement in a weekly newspaper has launched a group of 30 space history buffs on a mission to save the 30-meter Jamesburg AT&T/Comsat satellite dish about an hour from Monterey, Calif.
The dish was built in 1968 to support the Apollo 11 moon landing a year later. Besides its commercial duties, it also played a role in capturing and distributing images of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, says Pat Barthelow, an avionics technician from Sacramento who first noticed the ad in the Carmel (Calif.) Pine Cone and quickly put out the word.
The weekend restorers worked over the past four months to get the dish running. The 10-story high dish is housed in a 20,000 square foot building, both of which are in excellent shape, Barthelow said.
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There’s a typo in the ‘more’ link; it should be this:
http://www.jamesburgdish.org/
I found the google maps location for it and posted that to here:
http://googlesightseeing.com/2007/04/23/jamesburg-earth-station/#comments