The nighttime bird surveillance network all started with one six-foot sound dish, an expensive studio microphone on reel-to-reel tape and a bunch of hay bales more than 60 years ago.
Mr. McGill broke into his brother's home and destroyed an audiocassette which contained a recording of a conversation between himself and his brother, Charles McGill.
Each Voyager spacecraft has a 3.7 meter antenna for real-time transmission and an 8-track digital tape recorder capable of buffering 536 megabits for future transmission, enough to store 100 photographs.