Honeysuckle
Creek in October 1980.
This
photo was taken by Bill Wood (Goldstone) on a Deep Space Network
flying clock trip to provide a better time standard at all
three DSN complexes.
Mike Dinn writes, “The small dish [on the right hand side of the microwave tower] is pointing at the coll tower. In the later/last days, I think comms for ORR and HSK went via the coll tower and a microwave link to Black Mountain. And towards the end, the last function at HSK was to keep a generator going to provide power to the coll tower for this.” |