Word: antennas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nearly 3½ days the delicate radio signal came bravely down from space. At last it faltered. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory's 85-ft. antenna at Goldstone Dry Lake, Calif, changed to a special filter and held the signal for a few minutes more. A receiver of General Electric's at Schenectady, N.Y. heard the signal intermittently for about an hour longer. Then it faded out. Some 410,000 miles away in outer space, Pioneer IV, the U.S.'s first man-made planet, wheeled on around the sun, but now silent forever...
Currently operating higher up the dial at 107.1 megacycles, the station will accomplish the changeover before the end of the month, according to Shenefield. At the same time, WHRB will also boost its power and increase the height of its antenna on top of Dudley Hall by 20 feet...
Striking about four miles from the city limits, it damaged eight homes, toppled KXLW's 385-ft. radio transmitting antenna. With the heavy, rushing sound of a thundering locomotive, it rolled into the city, tossed KTVI's 575-ft. TV tower across the roofs of two apartment buildings, crushed the second floor of a four-family house, ripped off part of the roof of a sports arena, uprooted trees. It mangled a Ferris wheel in an amusement park, then slanted northeast-straight into the city's center. There, in a 3-sq.-mi. sector, years...
...within a few years the new giant radio telescopes, which enable man to probe far deeper into interstellar space than the biggest optical telescope, will provide some sort of an answer. Astronomer Lovell is director of the radio telescope at Jodrell Bank, England, whose massive, 250-ft. wire-dish antenna makes it the world's biggest...
...Such signals need not originate in an unannounced Russian satellite or spaceship departing for Mars. According to Owen Garriott of Stanford University, they may come from a well-known satellite that is passing over an area on the other side of the earth, exactly opposite the listener's antenna...