Click on the yellow box below to go back to the main page of the Range Rat Introduction page where you will find information about downrange people, where they worked, where they are now, their email address (if they wanted it published), what stations/ships they worked on, and news about those who have died etc etc.

I now have a Range Rat Sign-in book, to be used exclusively by Range Rats (and their famlies) that you can leave a comment of your experience on the range, where you worked, etc, etc. (See the other entrys in this book for examples, if you leave a comment or message not relating to the range the entry will eventually be deleted, for instance a "Howdy" does not qualify as an entry!). You can give your email address (its not required but its requested) so that other range rats can contact you.

Please do NOT use my "GUEST BOOK" to sign in, that book is for collectors who visit my website, and that is why I made a seperate book for use by Range Rats, called the Range Rat Sign In Book.

Perhaps you are looking for someone who you used to work with that you lost contact with, you could include it in your message in the sign-in book, or better yet send me an email and I can include it on this page.

• Joseph (Joe) Richburg who lives in Fairhope AL emailed me recently to tell me about his work there, he writes: "I went downrange to Eleuthera in 1963 to work on the MISTRAM tracking system. Initially, I was assigned to the Precision Measurement SubSystem (PMSS), but ultimately I was assigned as the engineer over the Computer SubSystem (CSS). I worked for Dale Mowry who was the CSS engineer before me. Dale worked for Bob Giles who was the technical manager for the MISTRAM site.
  MISTRAM was a highly precise instrument capable of measuring 1/4096 foot point in space. It was used for tracking Minuteman, Polaris and other cold-war rockets. The Computer SubSystem was built around the GE M236, a 36-bit machine with features similar to IBM's 7094. It was a forerunner for the GE 600 line.
  I got my first computer hardware and software experience on the M236. When I left Eleuthera I was offered a job in the new Down-Range Programming Group at the Cape, but I didn't know what a "programming" title was good for so I went into an engineering job at the TechLab. I used my MISTRAM experience to progress in computer hardware jobs, to get a Computer Science degree from FIT, to become a Chief Computer Scientist for Harris Corporation, to do computer marketing for DataPoint Corporation, and ultimately to found and operate three successful software companies of my own.

• Through the help of Thomas Kimball, (WA8UNS WEBPAGE) , I was able to obtain these pictures, one of which is shown below, click on the other pictures to see them in a larger format.

Eleuthera AAF Administration Building

• Administration Building, Eleuthera AAF 17 June 1966 ,
• Pier at Eleuthera AAF June 1966 ,
• Administration Building, Messhall, Water Tanks, Eleuthera AAF June 1966 ,
• Dispensary and living quarters, Eleuthera AAF June 1966 ,
• Central Control Building, Eleuthera AAF June 1966 ,
• Weather Station, Building 4020, Eleuthera AAF June 1966 ,
• Mistram II site microwave data link antenna & power station, Eleuthera AAF June 1966 ,
• UDOP Operation and UDOP rack June 1966 , The picture shows Gene Seicker (Rodger Fowler was not sure of the spelling of his last name, but did relate that Gene's nick name was Sack Rack, because he was always in the sack reading books on his off time. Rodger worked with Gene on this UDOP equipment).
• Mistram Control Operators, Eleuthera AAF June 1966 , Ron Blanzenski (who now lives in New Symrna Beach, Florida) is on the left of the picture and Rodger Fowler is on the right.
• Telemetry Tracking Site, Eleuthera AAF June 1966 ,
• Aerial view NAVFAC &, Eleuthera AAF June 1964 ,
• Central Control & GLOTRAC Van, Eleuthera AAF June 1966 ,
• Central Control Building, Eleuthera AAF 4 April 1966 ,
• Administration Building, Eleuthera AAF 4 April 1966 ,
• Aerial View of Eleuthera AAF ,

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