More photos of the outside of the Station


HSK at dawn

Honeysuckle Creek, the cherrypicker, and the crescent Moon at dawn.

Maintenance at Honeysuckle Creek went on around the clock. Tony Salvage cranks up the cherry picker to work on the antenna as a crescent moon hangs above the dawn.

Photo and notes: Hamish Lindsay. Click for a larger version. Click here for the 340kb full version.

HSKby floodlight

Honeysuckle Creek by floodlight.

Photo: Hamish Lindsay. Click for a larger version. Click here for the full version.

 

The Road

Sign on Apollo Road

The Station sign near the beginning of Apollo Road in 1971.

Photo: Tom Sheehan.

Sign and Light

The sign and flashing light in 1973.

Cars are waiting for the red light to stop flashing before they can proceed.

Photo: John Berry. Click for a larger version.

Page from Ed von Renouard’s scrapbook

The same spot – during the Apollo 14 mission in February 1971.

Click the image to see a page from Ed von Renouard’s scrapbook.

Station from main gate

A view from the main gate.

Photo: Colin Mackellar, October 1971.

HSK from the cherrypicker

Looking north-east from the cherrypicker. Dead Man’s Hill is the hill on the left.

Photo: Kaz Kijac. Scan: Alan Scheckenbach. Click for a larger version.
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Passive Repeater

The passive repeater on Deadman’s Hill is arrowed.

Photo: Kaz Kijac.

Apollo Road from Antenna

The Apollo Road as viewed from the sub reflector.

Click for a larger version – you can just make out the passive repeater (the microwave link with Tidbinbilla) on the right hand side of Deadman’s Hill (the hill at left).

Photo: Alan Foster. Scan: John Saxon

 

The Antenna

The HSK Antenna

The Honeysuckle antenna, 1971.

Photo: Tom Sheehan, 22 April 1971.

 

Snow at Honeysuckle

 

Kangaroos, snow and HSK

Hamish Lindsay writes, “Kangaroos, snow, Christmas trees and a tracking station– an unexpected combination!”

John Saxon writes, “I made a bunch of B & W copies of the kangaroo pic one year – folded them in half and sent them as Christmas cards. The Americans loved it – could not believe that kangaroos actually lived in such a climate.”

Photo: Hamish Lindsay. (Hamish took this photo on the left side of the driveway, immediately inside the main gate.)

See also the story on snow at Honeysuckle here.

winter show

Snow at Honeysuckle!

Photo by Hamish Lindsay, scan by John Saxon.

Powerhouse in winter

Snow – just outside the powerhouse.

Photo: Kaz Kijac. Scan: Alan Scheckenbach.

HSK in the snow

More Snow at Honeysuckle.

Photo taken by Kaz Kijac, just outside the powerhouse.

Scan: Alan Scheckenbach.

 

The Operations Building

Operations Building 1978

The Operations Building viewed from the southern side of the Antenna, January 1978.

Photo by Rhelma Lawrence, scan by Nevil Eyre.