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Radar Hill Postcard - prior to second laboratory and Sohio 28-foot dish

Early Radar Hill documentation

Aerial shot of site looking west. See Route 682 heading west in the background. Center background is the Dept of Highways garage. Today, there's the power company HQ building behind that garage

Aerial shot of site looking southeast

Early (1964..) wide-angle aerial view looking north. Tower lab later built about where furthest white circle is.

"Ice Station Zebra" -- Aerial looking north across the Hill. 30-foot lunar dish in foreground. Bldg 2 later added on west side of hill about where temporary trailer is located. Sohio tracking dish was just south of Bldg 2.

Snow show, wider view, looking generally north across what is now the 682 bypass, and across the river to open space west of the County Fairgrounds. Tower laboratory was later built just at the right edge of this picture on the brow of the hill.

From access road looking west up to the hilltop.

Optical horizon mask, 1965

Control room, bldg 1 - look at those white socks!From left: Ampex audio recorder, audio rack, tracking receiver and frequency control, data receiver and driver klystron, antenna control rack, UHF communications rack. S-band transmitter is behind camera.

Lunar-dish tracking receiver - used at x-band for military IDCSP satellite series. A monument to technician Bob Evans and the vacuum tube!

Transmitter room, 1965 - Lilley tunes...

10 KW "Texas-Tower" transmitter used for phase-stable transmissions during lunar studies and Echo satellite programs. Technician is Bob Evans.

Graduate student Tom Clabaugh at the control console for the Sohio tracking dish, during installation. Note Teletype Model 28 to right. State of the art for that time...

Radar Hill Computer facility, 1964. LGP-30 vacuum-tube, drum computer - Moon and satellite look angles computations.

28-foot steerable dish from Sohio research lab, brought to Radar Hill by Ralph Burhans.

The "lunar studies" 30-foot steerable paraboloid rigged for receiving. Tracking feed hardware in tub at focus; dipole antenna temporarily mounted for monitoring Gemini communications

Drawing of tower lab, built north of main Radar Hill installation, on the brow of the hill overlooking the Hocking river to the north.

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1980s picture series by photographer, name unknown, shortly before installation was bulldozed for liability reasons. Gun director steering device, with ornaments.

Lab Bldg 2 exterior looking east, 1980s

Bldg 2 interior looking south, 1980s

Lunar-dish tracking receiver - used at x-band for military IDCSP satellite series. A monument to technician Bob Evans and the vacuum tube!

North door of Building 1. Stairs up to Lunar dish at top of hill. Tropo dish 1 is behind camera.

From left: Tropo dish 1, Lunar steerable dish, Tropo dish 2, Sohio steerable dish, north end of Bldg 2. Lunar gun- director aiming station just in front of Sohio dish in picture. Tower lab behind camera to north.

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