Inside a 60-Foot Radio Telescope: From the DEW Line to Deep Space ⭐

Hi All - In this video, we're on the road providing an inside look at a 60-Foot Radio Telescope in eastern Colorado! The Deep Space Exploration Society (DSES) operates a historic 60-foot radio telescope near Haswell, Colorado. The antenna and surrounding site trace their origins to the Cold War, when the facility was established by the U.S. National Bureau of Standards—now the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)—for radio propagation research. During the late 1950s and 1960s, the site was used to study microwave tropospheric scatter and over-the-horizon communications in support of long-distance communications associated with the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line, the network built across the Arctic to provide early warning of a potential Soviet bomber attack. The Haswell facility later participated in satellite communications research before the government decommissioned the site in the 1970s. Today, DSES has given this remarkable piece of Cold War-era technology an entirely new purpose. The restored 60-foot dish is used for radio astronomy, pulsar and neutral-hydrogen observations, amateur radio experimentation, Earth-Moon-Earth (EME) communications, and other space-related research and educational projects. It's a fascinating example of technology evolving from Cold War communications research to exploring the cosmos. Learn more about DSES: https://dses.science For more content related to DSES, check out Sole Ham:    / @ham-solo   00:00 - Intro 00:03 - West of Haswell, Colorado 01:43 - Final stretch up to the dish 02:26 - Checking out the new building 05:15 - Moving the 60' dish 10:50 - Inside the 60' dish mount 16:35 - Climbing up inside the 60' dish 21:45 - Back in the control room 22:46 - An outside look at the dish moving 25:20 - Success. Moving the dish to the maintenance position 28:00 - Walking around the site 29:05 - Site overview with Bill/KC0FHN 44:03 - Technical overview with Alex/K6VHF 59:25 - Walking over to the bunker 01:01:59 - Entering the bunker 01:03:34 - Outro 01:06:00 - Extra aerial shots ☕ Support One Kilowatt Enjoying the channel? If you'd like to help support future projects, experiments, and videos, you can buy me a coffee here: ko-fi.com/onekilowatt Watching, commenting, subscribing, and sharing the videos helps tremendously too! 73, Chad NØYK #radiotelescope #coldwarhistory #hamradio #RadioAstronomy #AmateurRadio #DeepSpace #OneKilowatt