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- OBJECT TYPE
- KLYSTRON/1200 WATTS/SATELLITE
- DATE
- Unknown
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1990.0002.003
- MANUFACTURER
- VARIAN ASSOCIATES OF CANADA LTD.
- MODEL
- VZU-2701B2
- LOCATION
- Georgetown, Ontario, Canada
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- S732
- Part Number
- 3
- Total Parts
- 4
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- METAL CASINGS & PARTS/ SYNTHETIC DIALS, LIGHTS, PLUGS, CIRCUITRY PARTS.
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 81.3 cm
- Width
- 60.8 cm
- Height
- 46.9 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Space Technology
- Category
- Communications
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- VARIAN
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- City
- Georgetown
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- CA 1976 TO LATE 1980S
- Canada
-
PART OF EARTH STATION OF CTS/HERMES, CANADIAN DESIGNED & BUILT SPACECRAFT WHICH EXPLORED USE OF HIGH POWER TRANSPONDERS AT HIGHER FREQUENCIES TO EXPAND COMMUNICATIONS CAPABILITIES IN CANADA. - Function
-
UNIT WAS INSTALLED IN A TRAILER EQUIPPED FOR TELEVISION TRANSMISSIONS FOR HERMES PROGRAM COMMUNICATIONS EXPERIMENTS & WAS USED TO GENERATE POWER FOR TRANSMISSIONS FROM THE GROUND. - Technical
-
CTS/HERMES SATELLITE WAS FIRST WITH ENOUGH POWER TO DELIVER TV PROGRAMS DIRECTLY TO DISHES SMALL ENOUGH TO BE ESTABLISHED AT INDIVIDUAL HOMES. HIGH POWER KLYSTRONS USED FOR RADAR WERE CONVERTED TO GENERATE POWERFOR TRANMISSIONS FROM GROUND. THEY WERE NARROW BAND (50 MHz) & EACH TUBE HAD TOBE TUNED TO EXACT * - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- PLATE WITH MFR.'S LOGO & READING 'varian/ CANADA/ TYPE VZU-2701B2 SERIAL S732'.
- Missing
- MISSING SIDE CASING PIECES
- Finish
- DARK GREY TEXTURED CASING FRAMES/ LIGHT GREY TEXTURED CASING SIDES/ METALLIC & PLATED PARTS/ BLACK & RED PAINTED INTERNAL PARTS/ MULTICOLOURED SYNTHETIC/
- Decoration
- N/A
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VARIAN ASSOCIATES OF CANADA LTD., Amplifier, Unknown Date, Artifact no. 1990.0002, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1990.0002.003/
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