Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!dali.cs.montana.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!caen!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!lll-winken!rml!jack
From: jack@rml.UUCP (jack hagerty)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: STS-40
Message-ID: <284@rml.UUCP>
Date: 30 May 91 16:45:14 GMT
References: <435@alchemy.UUCP>
Reply-To: jack@rml.UUCP (jack hagerty)
Organization: Robotic Midwives, Ltd.
Lines: 32

In article <435@alchemy.UUCP> scanman@alchemy.UUCP (Marshal Perlman) writes:
>
>(#2) While on the island of Oahu, I saw two 
>HUGE radio telescopes, one pointed at the horizion and ther other poined 
>straight up at a 90 degree angle from the ground...What might they be? They 
>were heavily guarded etc...

If it was an Air Force installation then that could have been one of
the two mid-pacific tracking stations (the other is on Guam) of their
satellite tracking net. The Hawaiian station uses the radio code "HULA"
and Guam is GUAM (clever, what?). Other stations in the network are at
Vandenburg (COOK, because it's really located in nearby Camp Cook), New
Boston, New Hampshire (BOSS), Thule, Greenland (POGO, named after a cartoon
character because its location used to be classified) and on Victoria Island
in the Indian Ocean (INDI). Since I left the program over 10 years ago I 
believe they've added one more in the British Isles somewhere.

OTOH, both Hawaii and Guam have installations by NASA and ComSat Corp, and
the latter would probably guard it's installation at least as tightly as
the Air Force!

- Jack

=============================================================================
||Jack Hagerty, Robotic Midwives, Ltd.        jack@rml.UUCP (smart mailers)||
||Livermore, CA		       ...!uunet!lll-winken!rml!jack (dumb mailers)||
||(415) 455-1143	   jack%rml@lll-winken.llnl.gov (desperate mailers)||
||-------------------------------------------------------------------------||
|| "The Biblical God is a sloppy manufacturer. He's not good at design,    ||
||  He's not good at execution. He'd be out of business if there was       ||
||  any competition." - Carl Sagan, _Contact_                              ||
=============================================================================