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Comsat Dedicates

Roaring Creek

Earth Station

Comsat World Systems Division announced recently that Roaring

Creek Earth Station in central

Pennsylvania was officially dedi- cated on June 1, 1984. Roaring

Creek Earth Station is the newest and largest international commu- nications satellite earth station in the Intelsat global communica- tions satellite system. Managed and operated by Comsat World

Systems Division, Roaring Creek joins other similar stations oper- ated by Comsat World Systems Di- vision for international communi- cations satellite services. It is the most powerful and advanced earth station complex ever to be con- structed for operation in the Intel- sat system, and is jointly owned by

Comsat, AT&T, RCA and Western

Union International.

Through the Intelsat system, people in the United States are able to make international tele- phone calls, send and receive telex messages, computerized data and fascimile to and from points abroad and view live television programs from overseas. Today, the Intelsat system carries approximately two- thirds of all international commu- nications traffic and serves 170 nations and territories. The $50- million Roaring Creek facility is located in a radio-quiet area 55 miles northeast of Harrisburg, Pa., near the town of Bloomsburg. Op- erating with Intelsat satellites po- sitioned in geosynchronous orbit some 22,300 miles over the Atlan- tic Ocean, the Roaring Creek Earth

Station will connect the United

States with nearly three dozen other nations.

Three dish-shaped antennas tower over the Roaring Creek complex, each stretching 105 feet across. One of the three antennas, which began service in mid-May, operates in the lower of two satel- lite frequency bands, sending sig- nals to the satellite at a rate of six billion cycles per second (6 giga- hertz) and receiving them at four billion cycles per second (4 giga- hertz). Another antenna, which will begin operating later this year, transmits and receives signals in a higher frequency band (14/11 gi- gahertz). This antenna's 105-foot size makes it unique in the Intel- sat system in that other high-fre- quency band antennas usually measure about 60 feet across. The larger size at Roaring Creek less- ens the likelihood of signal inter- ference, which can be caused by heavy rainfall. The third antenna, the first dual-band antenna in the

Intelsat system, operates in both the lower and higher satellite fre- quency bands. That antenna will serve as a backup to the other two antennas after it becomes opera- tional later this year.

SNAME Issues Call For

Papers For 1985 OTC

The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers has issued a "Call For Papers" to be delivered at the 1985 Offshore Technology

Conference (OTC) to be held in the

Astrohall, Houston, Texas, May 6- 9, 1985.

A 200 to 300-word abstract should be submitted on the official

OTC form by September 14, 1984.

Authors should send the form to the Program Department, Off- shore Technology Conference, 6200

North Central Expressway, Drawer 64705, Dallas, Texas 75206. Cop- ies of the form may be secured from OTC or from SNAME, One

World Trade Center, Suite 1369,

New York, N.Y. 10048.

The papers should be concerned with new knowledge or experience in some field of offshore resource and environment. SNAME's rep- resentative on the 1985 OTC

Technical Program Committee is

Fred E. Shumaker. Monroe D.

Macpherson is the representa- tive on the OTC Executive

Committee.

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