Guy Mallery wrote:

http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2004/07/21/1/?nc=1

Another pioneer of radio astronomy, Grote Reber, worked on building his own
receiver for use in Tasmania while at John Kraus's OSU "Big Ear" in the
early 70's.  Grote passed in 2002.
http://www.nrao.edu/whatisra/hist_reber.shtml