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But Gordon, wouldn't it only take one more side to make a 5-sided "hexagon" 
(a pentagon) into a real 6-sided hexagon?

Sam Putney

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> Ken's mention of Sputnik reminds me how far science has progressed since 

> then.  At the time that the launch of Sputnik stunned the scientific and 

> military community in this country I was assigned to Research and 

> Development Company  at Fort Monmouth, NJ, the home of the US Army Signal 

> Corps.  When Sputnik went up a number of us were pressed into duty manning 

> conventional radio direction finding equipment to track the beep, beep, 

> beep of Sputnik.  Whenever it came into range we manually logged the 

> coordinates and the corresponding times, then picked up a telephone and 

> verbally relayed the information to a telephone number in Washington, DC. 

> Hard to believe that this was the way it was done then, but it was.

>

> Incidentally, I worked in the Signal Research and Development 

> Laboratories, known locally as the "Hexagon."  But, it was a five-sided 

> hexagon!

>

> The explanation is that two of the sides had not been built at that time.

>

> Gordon Hamilton

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>> The Today show broadcast from Roanoke on May 15-16, 1958. There was  an 

>> interview segment with Stuart Saunders standing next to the  Pocahontas, 

>> and a filmed (not live) segment riding the cab of the J  between Roanoke 

>> and Bedford. There was a two page article in the June  1958 N&W Magazine. 

>> pages 344-345.

>>

>> Having worked in the television business for 11 years, The first 

>> satellite to orbit the earth was Sputnik in October 1957, just about  7 

>> months prior to this broadcast. As I recall, it was capable of 

>> broadcasting a "beep" tone every few seconds during its orbit.

>>

>> Satellite television broadcasting did not originate until sometime in 

>> 1962, when Telstar was launched to become the first television  broadcast 

>> satellite. Live broadcasting in those days was a  considerable technical 

>> feat with a small scale broadcast truck at the  site. Satellite or 

>> microwave broadcasting that is common today was  unheard of in 1958.

>>

>> Ken Miller

>>

>> On Mar 31, 2007, at 1:18 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:

>>

>>>

>>> I do recall the Today show broadcasting from Roanoke in 1957, the  75th 

>>> anniversary of the City. And I recall that the "studio" was an  open air 

>>> location atop Mill Mountain. Unfortunately I don't recall  the train 

>>> feature.

>>>

>>>      Ray Smoot

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>>>

>>> Back durung the early 50's the Today Show with Dave Garroway  originated

>>> one day in Roanoke, Va.   During the course of the program an N&W J

>>> with a passenger train was approaching Roanoke.  This was before we

>>> had the satellite technology that exists today. They had a "live" 

>>> segment of

>>> broadcast with Dave Garraway in the cab of the locomotive talking with

>>> the engine crew, or trying to over all that noise.  I have wondered  to 

>>> this

>>> day how  NBC  was able to pull that off. Do any of you recall this 

>>> program

>>> from the past, or do you have any idea  of how they were able to 

>>> broadcast

>>> "live" from a moving locomotive cab?   The only angle I can think  of 

>>> was

>>> to have a small plane above the train with a satellite dish feeding  the 

>>> signal

>>> to a dish mounted on a building in Roanoke. What's your version?

>>> Bill Sellers.

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