Receiver Swap at Grote Reber’s First Telescope

A 26-year old Grote Reber stands on the receiver tower used to maintain and swap receivers on his homemade radio telescope in Wheaton, Illinois. He is leaning against the resonating-cavity drum of this large telescope that he built in 1937.
Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF
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