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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