Post #2078821
2026-05-05 16:15 UTC
The nameplate on the dish, I would love to know what the story on this dish. I guess it became defunct when subsea optical cables landed on the Azores
(the photo here has been altered a bit to make it easier to read)
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@anticomposite@wikis.world 2026-05-05 16:40
@benjojo https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.03437 identifies it as a 32m Intelsat Standard-A satellite communications dish, which would have been used for telephone, TV, and broadcast radio connections. They were obsoleted in the mid 80s with better undersea cables and satellites that didn't require dishes that big. Some have been repurposed for radio astronomy, but this one was just mothballed.