General Information

Serial #

199

Part Number

1

Total Parts

5

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

NON-FERROUS METAL/ SYNTHETIC PARTS.

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

58.5 cm

Width

60.6 cm

Height

9.8 cm

Thickness

N/A

Weight

N/A

Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Space Technology

Category

Communications

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

SED

Country

Canada

State/Province

Saskatchewan

City

Saskatoon

Context

Country

Peru

State/Province

Unknown

Period

1977

Canada

BUILT BY CRC LABS & CANADIAN FIRM SED SYSTEMS, THIS WAS EARTH STATION FOR PIONEERING CANADIAN COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE PROGRAMCTS/HERMES.

Function

SATELLITE EARTH STATION USED TO RECEIVE HIGH FREQUENCY TELEVISION SIGNALS FROM CTS/HERMES COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE.

Technical

SMALLEST SIZE OF REFLECTOR USED WITH CTS/HERMES SATELLITE, ITS SMALL SIZE POSSIBLE BECAUSE OF HIGH TRANSMITTING POWER OF CTS. IT WAS DESIGNED TO BE EASILY DISMANTLED & TRANSPORTED IN CARRYING CASE. IT ILLUSTRATES BASIC CONCEPT LATER ADOPTED BY MOST TVRO SYSTEMS - SIMPLE PARABOLICREFLECTOR WITH ELECTRONICS LOCATED AT FRONT POINTING TOWARDS REFLECTOR.

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

.1 CRC ? DECAL & WHITE APPLIQUE LETTERING READING 'COMMUNICATIONS CANADA' ON DISH FRONT/.2 DECAL READING 'SED SYSTEMS INC./ SASKATOON CANADA/ MODEL OU-12-11/ DIRECT BROADCAST TERMINAL/ OUTDOOR UNIT/ SERIAL NO. 199'/ BLUE & WHITE DECAL READING 'ASSET NUMBER/ 18343/ SHIRLEY BAY'/.3 BLUE PRINTING ON SYNTHETIC READS 'RGMCA 190-13/ W.L. GORE/ SN 24364'.

Missing

N/A

Finish

.1 DISH PAINTED DARK GREEN/.2,.4,.5 METALLIC DIPOLE & FRAME/.3 PALE GREEN SYNTHETIC CABLE COVERING/ WHITE SYNTHETIC PARTS/ BLACK CASE HANDLE.

Decoration

2 PAIRS OF MULTICOLOURED 'COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY SATELLITE' DECALS & GREEN LETTERING READING 'DEPT. OF COMMUNICATIONS/ OTTAWA CANADA' ON CASE.