Honeysuckle Creek Equipment Installation
The Collins Radio team
Ray Cox, supervisor of the Collins Radio team that installed all the USB equipment, with his left hand on the ball tracker that controls the antenna movements. The station staff worked and trained with the Collins men. Photo: Hamish Lindsay. |
Collins Radio team leader Ray Cox at the Servo console. Photo: Hamish Lindsay. 2023 negative scan: Colin Mackellar. |
Collins Radio team leader Ray Cox is presented with a (parting?) gift by Honeysuckle’s Charlie Howe. Honeysuckle’s Bruce Cameron and Bernard Smith are at right. Is this in the Test Equipment Workshop? If so, the USB area is through the window, and the wall on the right through the window divides USB from Telemetry. (That wall was later removed.) Photo: Hamish Lindsay. 2023 negative scan: Colin Mackellar. |
Bruce Cameron apparently proposes a toast. Photo: Hamish Lindsay. 2023 negative scan: Colin Mackellar. |
Ray Cox’s gift appears to be a carving. Photo: Hamish Lindsay. 2023 negative scan: Colin Mackellar. |
Collins Radio team member Gene Crouse. Polaroid photo: Hamish Lindsay. 2023 scan by Colin Mackellar. |
Collins Radio RF Engineer Steve Randal (or Randles) – part of the Collins Radio installation team – relaxing in front of the Tracking Data Processor. Photo: Hamish Lindsay. 2018 negative scan: Colin Mackellar. See Hamish’s “Early scenes” for the other photos on that roll. |
112A Intercom
Frank Barrow at Honeysuckle Creek. |
112A key relays. Photo: Frank Barrow. |
The painstaking work of wiring the 112A system. Photo: Frank Barrow. |
The Honeysuckle antenna during construction. Photo: Frank Barrow. |