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Right.  Now you can see why I failed first grade descriptive geometry.

It was a four-sided hexagon, not a five-sided one.

Gordon Hamilton

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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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