Post B6CKPvnvbVG4haT3fE by benjojo@benjojo.co.uk
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 (DIR) Post #B6CKPvnvbVG4haT3fE by benjojo@benjojo.co.uk
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       Forgot to post this last month, but there is a abandoned huge 32m satellite dish sitting in the Azores, with nature slowly reclaiming it with weeds and moss (as is everything in the Azores)You can see a very similar (likely the same model) still being used in Pakistan for PTCL here on google maps
       
 (DIR) Post #B6CKPwGdskE88dtzQ8 by benjojo@benjojo.co.uk
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       The nameplate on the dish, I would love to know what the story on this dish. I guess it became defunct when subsea optical cables landed on the Azores(the photo here has been altered a bit to make it easier to read)
       
 (DIR) Post #B6CKPwgWKWvXQu0eky by mdione@en.osm.town
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       @benjojo oh, is that in the São Miguel Island? If so, I'm bummed we missed it... :(
       
 (DIR) Post #B6CKPx4yraUcelSBsm by anticomposite@wikis.world
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       @benjojo https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.03437 identifies it as a 32m Intelsat Standard-A satellite communications dish, which would have been used for telephone, TV, and broadcast radio connections. They were obsoleted in the mid 80s with better undersea cables and satellites that didn't require dishes that big. Some have been repurposed for radio astronomy, but this one was just mothballed.