Index 3: Ascension - ASC-4D1 Satellite Antenna
In
1987 / 1988
yet another update of the
island's communications was needed,
this time a link to the island of St Helena
(700 miles away
to the South East of Ascension).
Communications between the two was in the form of
a HF Radio Link.A study was completed to find the best solution. With the Island's telephone systems also being upgraded, an Earth Station solution was decided upon. This station would have an Identical one built in St Helena.
Above: ASC-4D1 Earth Station for St Helena
Again NEC was commissioned with the work and the Islands took delivery of 2 Standard D Earth Stations.
They have a diameter of 22.5ft, and the 2 sites were installed again on Donkey Plain and the Briars in St Helena.
The first transmission was made from the later on 30th November 1989 at 16:41. The stations went to traffic in December 1989.