This shows the roadway to the Ops building with warning sign “Minitrack Antenna Field: No Vehicle to leave roadway without permission”, Log Periodic Antenna for receiving time code sync signals from WWVH, and also for listening to Russian Cosmonauts when in flight. The ‘flying saucer’ to the right is actually the water tank for the Ops building.

This photo looks North East and shows the Ops Building, and also the steerable 9 boom Yagi Telemetry receiving antenna, the calibration antenna for the 9 Yagi, DSS41 ANT in background, DSS41 Col Tower on ridge, and pools of water in foreground after a period of rain (most unusual that stuff).

(Hover your mouse over each feature to see it identified – and click on the image for a larger version.)

This looks North West to Ops Building and shows the steerable 16Yagi Telemetry receiving antenna, and Minitrack ANT (South Fine).

The Minitrack 16-element Yag at dawn.

This photo looks South East from Ops Building and shows the steerable Telemetry receiving antenna comprised of 16 booms of yagi antennas.

The Minitrack stationary North-South antenna of coarse resolution.

The Minitrack stationary antennas for determining when a satellite crossed the latitude and longtitude coordinates of the antenna field.

These are the North-South Fine resolution antennas.

The steerable Command uplink Yagis (2 frequencies of uplink).

The Baker-Nunn Camera building can be seen on the ridge in the distance.

The Minitrack console, looking towards the south west.

The Minitrack console, looking towards the south east.

A night-time shot of the Minitrack console.

The MOTS (Minitrack Optical Tracking System) Camera was an astrographic camera which took full plate glass film of –

(1) satellites bright enough to capture, e.g. Echo-1 and Echo-2, and

(2) calibration aircraft beacon flashes.

[MOTS had a 40" focal length with an 8" aperture and used 8" x 10" photographic plates.]

The Minitrack Telemetry section in foreground with the Tracking section at end of room.