The town of Hancock, New Hampshire, is the oldest town in America to host a National Radio Astronomy Observatory antenna. It is a wooded area, beautiful in the autumn, with its share of snow in the winter. Occasionally enough snow will settle in the dish that the array operator in Socorro will have to turn the antenna to dump it. There is also a program the operator can use to have the dish track the sun when ice in the dish becomes a problem.

For more information about the history of Hancock, follow this link to the hometown page. Current information can be found here.

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