VLA Master Slides: Laying Waveguide for the VLA, 1974

3 men laying pipe in ditch

David Heeschen's role in the design and development of the VLA was especially crucial to what is arguably the most important radio telescope in the world since its completion in 1980. He approved the critical design decisions such as the waveguide for signal transmission, the cooled front ends, and the digital delay and correlator system. That the VLA was rejuvenated as the powerful Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array is testimony to the far-sighted concept which Heeschen developed in the 1960s.

Records of the NRAO

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1974

NRAO/AUI/NSF

VLA_158

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