SATELLITE STATION
Outlines are changing daily at the Post Office’s earth satellite station at Warkworth, 41 miles north of Auckland, after a static curing period for the 2400-ton, 52ft diameter concrete base of the antenna, and progress with indoor work on the control building. The concrete base for the
antenna is buried 30ft in the earth. New Zealand’s largest mobile crane, capable of lifting weights of up to 100 tons, was moved to the Warkworth site to lift into place the yoke containing the nerve centre of the antenna on to the 37-ton steel base plate. The plinth is capped by a base plate which contains the bearing on which the antenna rotates horizontally. The yoke was prefabricated in Japan. i
The yoke will eventually house bearings, shafting and drive mechanism to be used in elevating the 100 ft dish antenna.
Also attached to the centre yoke will be rooms containing high power amplifiers and the low noise receivers to be used with the antenna.
The picture shows the second section of the yoke held steady as it is bolted to the first.
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32474, 8 December 1970, Page 2
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