It was here in 1962 that the first test signals were broadcast to Antenna One ("Arthur"), the newly constructed parabolic antenna at Goonhilly Down Earth Station, just 20 miles away.
On July 23, 1962, the testing having proved successful, television pictures from the United States of America were beamed via feed horn antennae to the purpose-built communications satellite Telstar, which in turn relayed images to the reciever at Goonhilly, making this the world's first transatlantic sattelite television broadcast.
Exactly what the test station was used for after that historic experimental broadcast, I have not been able to find, but the site seems to have remained in the hands of GPO Telecommunications, who later built a modern radio station complete with large antenna to the north of the site. It is today owned and operated by GPO Telecomunications' successor British Telecom.
