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Illinois 400-Foot Radio Telescope

(1960s cylindrical telescope)

The Illinois 400-Foot Radio Telescope was a cylindrical radio telescope located at Vermilion River Radio Observatory (VRO) near Danville in eastern Illinois. It had a north-south cylindrical axis and used phase to vary the beam toward the north or south. It was built in 1959 and used until 1969.

(telescope,radio,ground)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermilion_River_Observatory
https://ece.illinois.edu/about/history/reminiscence/400ft
https://www.tumblr.com/engineeringhistory/82800969709/university-of-illinois-vermilion-river-observatory
https://archon.library.illinois.edu/archives/?p=digitallibrary/digitalcontent&id=8084
https://web.archive.org/web/20170506220214/https://archives.library.illinois.edu/erec/University%20Archives/3503065/VermillionRiverObservatory.pdf
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1968AJS....73R..12F/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1968ApL.....1..243M/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1967RaSc....2..147Y/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1965AJ.....70..756M/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1961AJ.....66S..48M/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1961ITAP....9....9S/abstract
WaveLFreqPhoton
Energy		  
492mm610MHz2.6μeVIllinois 400-Foot Radio Telescope
PrefixExample  
VROVRO 42.22.01 

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cylindrical telescope
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