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| The Dover Heights `hole-in-the-ground' antenna |
| The ATNF Historic Photographic Archive dates
from 1939 and contains ~50,000 individual negatives or slides, and associated
prints. The picture above shows the Dover Heights `hole-in-the-ground' antenna.
Wayne Orchiston writes: "Australia's mini-Arecibo was used to survey the sky
at 160 MHz and to search for the deuterium line (Bolton 1982)." -
More information:
Focus
on the history of Australian radio astronomy by Wayne Orchiston.
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