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I must get in the final word on this off-topic matter.  If you don't believe 
there could be a four-sided "Hexagon," see the picture below.

Gordon Hamilton


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THE HEXAGON RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER AT FORT MONMOUTH, NEW JERSEY


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> Right.  And the squaw on the hippopottamoose is equal to the sum of the 

> squaws on either side . . .

>

> And Pi are round.  Cornbread are square.

>

> EdKing

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>

>> Right.  Now you can see why I failed first grade descriptive geometry.

>>

>> It was a four-sided hexagon, not a five-sided one.

>>

>> Gordon Hamilton

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>> Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 3:33 PM

>> Subject: Re: Today Show

>>

>>

>>> But Gordon, wouldn't it only take one more side to make a 5-sided 

>>> "hexagon" (a pentagon) into a real 6-sided hexagon?

>>>

>>> Sam Putney

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>>> Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 1:47 PM

>>> Subject: Re: Today Show

>>>

>>>

>>>> Ken's mention of Sputnik reminds me how far science has progressed 

>>>> since then.  At the time that the launch of Sputnik stunned the 

>>>> scientific and military community in this country I was assigned to 

>>>> Research and Development Company  at Fort Monmouth, NJ, the home of the 

>>>> US Army Signal Corps.  When Sputnik went up a number of us were pressed 

>>>> into duty manning conventional radio direction finding equipment to 

>>>> track the beep, beep, beep of Sputnik.  Whenever it came into range we 

>>>> manually logged the coordinates and the corresponding times, then 

>>>> picked up a telephone and verbally relayed the information to a 

>>>> telephone number in Washington, DC. Hard to believe that this was the 

>>>> way it was done then, but it was.

>>>>

>>>> Incidentally, I worked in the Signal Research and Development 

>>>> Laboratories, known locally as the "Hexagon."  But, it was a five-sided 

>>>> hexagon!

>>>>

>>>> The explanation is that two of the sides had not been built at that 

>>>> time.

>>>>

>>>> Gordon Hamilton

>>>>

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>>>> Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 6:54 PM

>>>> Subject: Re: Today Show

>>>>

>>>>

>>>>> The Today show broadcast from Roanoke on May 15-16, 1958. There was 

>>>>> an interview segment with Stuart Saunders standing next to the 

>>>>> Pocahontas, and a filmed (not live) segment riding the cab of the J 

>>>>> between Roanoke and Bedford. There was a two page article in the June 

>>>>> 1958 N&W Magazine. pages 344-345.

>>>>>

>>>>> Having worked in the television business for 11 years, The first 

>>>>> satellite to orbit the earth was Sputnik in October 1957, just about 

>>>>> 7 months prior to this broadcast. As I recall, it was capable of 

>>>>> broadcasting a "beep" tone every few seconds during its orbit.

>>>>>

>>>>> Satellite television broadcasting did not originate until sometime in 

>>>>> 1962, when Telstar was launched to become the first television 

>>>>> broadcast satellite. Live broadcasting in those days was a 

>>>>> considerable technical feat with a small scale broadcast truck at the 

>>>>> site. Satellite or microwave broadcasting that is common today was 

>>>>> unheard of in 1958.

>>>>>

>>>>> Ken Miller

>>>>>

>>>>> On Mar 31, 2007, at 1:18 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:

>>>>>

>>>>>>

>>>>>> I do recall the Today show broadcasting from Roanoke in 1957, the 

>>>>>> 75th anniversary of the City. And I recall that the "studio" was an 

>>>>>> open air location atop Mill Mountain. Unfortunately I don't recall 

>>>>>> the train feature.

>>>>>>

>>>>>>      Ray Smoot

>>>>>>

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>>>>>> Sent: Fri 3/30/2007 8:41 PM

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>>>>>> Subject: Today Show

>>>>>>

>>>>>> Back durung the early 50's the Today Show with Dave Garroway 

>>>>>> originated

>>>>>> one day in Roanoke, Va.   During the course of the program an N&W J

>>>>>> with a passenger train was approaching Roanoke.  This was before we

>>>>>> had the satellite technology that exists today. They had a "live" 

>>>>>> segment of

>>>>>> broadcast with Dave Garraway in the cab of the locomotive talking 

>>>>>> with

>>>>>> the engine crew, or trying to over all that noise.  I have wondered 

>>>>>> to this

>>>>>> day how  NBC  was able to pull that off. Do any of you recall this 

>>>>>> program

>>>>>> from the past, or do you have any idea  of how they were able to 

>>>>>> broadcast

>>>>>> "live" from a moving locomotive cab?   The only angle I can think  of 

>>>>>> was

>>>>>> to have a small plane above the train with a satellite dish feeding 

>>>>>> the signal

>>>>>> to a dish mounted on a building in Roanoke. What's your version?

>>>>>> Bill Sellers.

>>>>>>

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