Answering your questions | Goonhilly Q&A

What does the name Goonhilly mean?
How big is our smallest antenna?
In this next episode of 60 Minutes Inside Goonhilly, our team has answered your burning questions...
Dive in and satisfy your curiosity!

[@wulliest]

Driven past at least twice on holidays - would love to bring the kid to see something "just a little larger" than a Sky dish.

[@artymowski]

You can pick oranges and avocadoes from your new earth station in Heritage Valley! Also, we had black bears, cougars, coyotes, foxes etc etc, visiting the property. But beware of the occasional diamond back! 😎

[@cazridley5822]

Great to see some of the dishes keeping their old names ! I was lucky enough to visit a few times when you could and it was absolutely fantastic for us geeky radio hams 😁

[@Roskellan]

Goonhilly - off far to the Southwest for the Telstar experiment in 1962, on bed rock for the heavy structures, rural area meant it's electrically quiet without tall structures in the geostationary arc, and on the site of the old Dry Tree Chain home station from WW2 which meant the land was cheap. Mainly I was told, it was because the land was cheap 🙂.