Description: This series includes Thompson's 1963-1968 file from his 1965-1968 service on the NRAO Visiting Committee, a newspaper clipping about Phillip Morrison's 1981 VLA visit and speech, a photo of Thompson, David Morris, and Harold Weaver at the August 1960…
Description: This unit includes material dated 1972-1983 on spectral line protection and a 1975 report titled Interim Report of the Ad Hoc Working Party on Interference to Radio Astronomy.
Description: This unit includes correspondence and memos on frequency and spectrum management matters dated 1994-2005. Thompson separated this group of correspondence and his separate grouping was retained; see also frequency-related correspondence in other units…
Description: The X-percent question was discussed in order to determine the tolerable percentage (X-percent) of time lost to interference in an allocated radio astronomy band. Correspondence and reports are dated August 1999-March 2000.
Description: From 1979-1999 Thompson was the U.S. representative from the Committee on Radio Frequencies (CORF) of the National Academy of Sciences to the International Radio Consultative Committee (reorganized in 1990 as the Radiocommunication Sector of the…
Description: This series includes minutes from the NRAO Frequency Coordinators meetings, held approximately bi-monthly. The bulk of the minutes are from the period January 1992-April 1997 when Thompson chaired the meetings and distributed minutes. There are only…
Description: The Inter-Union Commission on Frequency Allocations for Radio Astronomy and Space Science was founded in 1960 to represent the interests of the International Astronomical Union (IAU), the International Scientific Radio Union (URSI), and the Committee…
Description: Correspondence, reports, and memoranda of understanding dated 1992-2001 related to the Iridium satellite system, including the tests made in cooperation with Motorola at the beginning of the system's operation, and 2001 material on the new Iridium…
Description: In about 1996 NASA began developing a project using radar system and satellites operating at a frequency of 94 GHz to provide detailed measurements of cloud-coverage profiles. Coordination was required to make sure radio astronomy antennas were not…
Description: In January 1979 Thompson became the U.S. representative on the International Radio Consultative Committee (CCIR) working on the protection of spectrum for radio astronomy observations. Prior to 1990, the CCIR documentation generated by the study…
