Menzel Changes Site For Radio Telescope

Interfering television signals will force the relocation of a University-sponsored radio telescope station from its intended site at Sacramento Peak, N.M., Donald H. Menzel, director of the College Observatory, announced yesterday.

Construction of the 25-foot radio instrument, the first in this country and one of the largest in the world, is directed jointly by the University and the Air Force under a government contract. The relocation, according to Menzel, will probably not alter the original plan to complete the telescope by the early part of 1956.