User talk:R2d2c2

I had a contract with the Ontario Ministry of Natural resources, in the year 2000. This contract was to decommission the solar array consisting of 32 - 10ft dishes and their supporting structures, as well as all contents of Site 5, an 800 ft long wooden building. My reason was to salvage valuable test equipment and scrap value of the parabolic reflectors and waveguide. It took two summers work to accomplish this.

The 32 dishes were not donated to the Shelburne site but a former scientist from the A.R.O. did buy ten of them to begin his own fixed solar array. Another amateur astronomer in Perth Ontario purchased four 10 foot antennas for his personal radio observatory.

The dishes were fabricated by Bristol Aerospace of Winnipeg Man. and weighed 80 lbs each. There were approx. 5.5 tonnes of WR 384(?) waveguide 3"x1.5" for use on 2.8Ghz. Just under 450 salable items were recovered from the site and were sold at a location near Ottawa to radio enthusiasts and engineers. Gross proceeds were approx. $32,000. The site where the 32 antennas were located has now been returned to nature. I have photos before and after and will post at a later date.

One of the original hand made spectrometers made by National Research Council scientists now resides at the Ottawa Museum of Science and Technology. it was used during their early experiments on coronal artifacts.