![]() | Tour Guide: Richard F. Bradley, Ph.D. — W4DZC —Former Steel City ARC Member —Scientist / Senior Research Engineer (NRAO) —Research Professor of Astronomy (U. Virginia) —Visiting Assistant Professor of EE (U. Virginia) —Radio Science: Associate Editor |
The Steel City behind the scenes tour of the Greenbank Observatory is on for September 8 & 9th. This will be an overnight trip to the telescope which we will be leaving early Friday morning to get down to the telescope as early as possible. After the tour we will be staying overnight at the telescope bunkhouse. Getting up early the next morning to head over to the CASS Railroad to take the train to the top of the mountain. The are is a POTA & SOTA site so you might want to bring along your portable gear.
Rich has a great job of talking with the people at the telescope and have waived the $25 fee for the tour and to get it moved to a Firday when people can ask for the day off. There will be a charge of $10 to spend the night at the bunk house. Current the charge for the train trip will be around $79 but we will try to get a discount once we have a proper head count. This tour will be limited to 20 people at the max so sign up early to reserve your spot. It will be also required to fill out a :”Visitor Registration Form” {a basic background check} to go on this behind the scene tour.
More information will be provided at our June Business Meeting
Information on the Green Bank Telescope
Information about the behind the scene tour
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