Hi Roy

Yep that was probably it. It is some way north out of Parkes near a
place called Alectown.

If you go to http://topoweb.lpi.nsw.gov.au/run.htm and zoom up on about
148.2639E 32.9975S, thats where the dish is. Its about 300km WNW of
Sydney so it isnt exactly in line with a trip to Charleville.

There is a smaller comms dish in a place called Moree. About 400km NNW
of Sydney. Nowhere near as big as Parkes tho. I think the only other big
dishes are south of Canberra. There is however one or two Mills Cross
arrays out there but they of course arent disk shaped!

Amd there is another dish array (6 of 22m dia) at a place called Narrabri.

http://www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au/ is the dishes actual website c/w
pictures to check out.

Cheers Bob

Roy Lewallen wrote:
Is that the dish that's northwest of Sydney, oh, a couple hundred miles
or so? About 20 years ago I snapped a picture of a very impressive dish
from a helicopter I was riding between Sydney and Charleville (west of
Brisbane, in Qld.) Never knew what it was for, but sure looks like a
radiotelescope.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL