5963 (computer grade dual triode) production dates?

There is an abandoned C-band earthstation near here I'm trying to track down. It was the only uplink built by Microdyne, and is supposed to be the infamous site used by "Captain Midnight". I worked for Microdyne for a number of years and collect their odd limited run products, but this one would fill my garage according to one of the engineers who worked on the system design. For instance, I may have the only surviving C-band signal generator they built for the production line testing of CATV & broadcast downlink equipment at the Ocala plant.

That wasn't the GTE DOMSAT station in Homosassa, FL, I'm sure. I think that one was scrapped. It had two 105' Sylvania/Rohr bean waveguide antennæ and Lenkurt GCE. It was a sister station to Sunset Beach, HI (one antenna) and the main GTE station at Triunfo Pass, CA, where I worked for years after AT&T bought it in 1986.

Didn't Microdyne become part of Satellite Transmission Systems later on? They're in Melboune.

This was a smaller and newer facility from around 1990. I believe it has a 10 meter dish. The thing that makes it interesting is that it Microdyne only built one. A customer talked them into it, even though they were only involved with microwave receivers and CATV security equipment at the time.

They were bought out by L3-Com in 2000 and they closed the Ocala plant in 2001 when they dropped 90% of the product line and moved to Pennsylvania.