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Echo Hill marked as first Echo satellite wirephoto site
The Echo Hill site north of Marion served as Collins Radio Co’s Cedar Rapids to Dallas network north terminus for relaying radio signals via the Echo satellite. Aug 18 1960 saw the first successful wirephoto bounced off Echo, with later Aug 19 delivering Eisenhower portrait via the Gazette AP wire.
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Earth
Cape Canaveral
Dwight Eisenhower
California
New Jersey
Collins Radio Co
Echo
Echo Hill
Marion
Alpha Corp
Dallas
Collins
Donald K. Molander
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Collins Radio
Echo I
Eisenhower
Gazette
The
Associated Press
Alpha
Isenhower
Richardson
Texas
Outer Space
Space
the Gazette
Alburnett Road
Arlen J. Svien