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In a message dated 10/4/2007 5:06:52 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
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And what does this have to do with archaeology?
Anita, The house at which the Sputnik satellite was first tracked exists at
4351 Ampudia Street in San Diego. Thomas Hemphill's radio shack, his copper
pipe antennae, and the U.S.G.S. marker in his roof still believed to exist. The
archaeology of the radio shack awaits our future generation's interest. Of
course, the historical side of Sputnik lies in military landfills across the
United States. And, I might add, with little difficulty one could come up with
wonderful Cold War applications. Oh, by the way, Congress and the U.S. Air
Force funded Convair to build the first radio telescope to improve satellite
tracking and they assigned Hemphill to design what became the Clark Dry Lake
radio antennae in Borrego Springs. That site is a living archaeology example
of Sputnik tracking, Cold War archaeology, and continues to operate to this
day. Beep, Beep, Beep.
Ron May
Legacy 106, Inc.
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