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Anyone watched The Dish?
Over the summer I've been working at my university's radio telescope. This is a log from one of the experiments some colleagues did:
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> 2007.046.18:19:18.13;"observer: Cliff ***
> 2007.046.18:21:55.16;"weather: Clear sky, no wind.
> 2007.046.23:35:46.30;"weather: Clear sky, warm
> 2007.047.01:35:34.90;"power problem momentarily
> 2007.047.01:38:34.59;"drive PC restarting
> 2007.047.04:43:14.90;"A few minutes of grief with the rack.
> 2007.047.04:44:46.17;"weather: clear sky, Hot day.
> 2007.047.04:46:05.85;"The rack misbehaved while communicating. setupsx
> ran a few times and now OK.
> 2007.047.04:50:20.32;"mat is not happy
> 2007.047.04:50:41.13;"slave light is on.
> 2007.047.04:50:56.34;"cycling power to rack
> 2007.047.05:04:14.05;"restarted pcfs computer, power cycled rack
> 2007.047.05:04:58.45;"the concern is seeing the slave light on the tty
> distributor.
> 2007.047.05:05:45.27;"the formatter required a resynch after the rack
> power was cycled.
> 2007.047.05:06:02.60;"seems ok now.
> 2007.047.05:09:45.93;"slave light is on again
> 2007.047.05:11:24.24;"maybe slave is what goes to the receiver box serial
> 2007.047.05:11:33.12;"power problem
> 2007.047.05:20:11.45;"slave light again
> 2007.047.05:30:36.10;"slave light on again.
> 2007.047.05:31:02.75;"removing tty distibutor
> 2007.047.05:54:01.02;"schedule restarted at 0548. Slave light has not
> come back.
> 2007.047.07:51:56.14;"replaced pcfs power supply, cleaned up machine,
> serial port problem hopefully fixed. Wait and see.
> 2007.047.07:52:11.31;"thunderstorm now!
> 2007.047.07:58:12.94;"recording again
> 2007.047.08:04:01.06;"thunderstorms all around, windy, warm
> 2007.047.08:32:54.75;"antenna near horizon, looking at thunderstorms.
> VCO overloads
> 2007.047.09:51:59.87;"rain, low cloud, gusty wind
> 2007.047.10:08:46.72;"wind picking up, 25 km/h
> 2007.047.10:29:41.38;"light rain, wind has eased, thunderstorms a few km
> away
> 2007.047.10:43:51.02;"power glitch due to storm? mark 5 has restarted
> 2007.047.11:01:54.57;"thunderstorm getting closer
> 2007.047.11:06:23.14;"should be ready to record again now after mk5 crash
> 2007.047.11:10:28.20;"recording again
> 2007.047.11:46:10.37;"calm, light rain, thunderstorms about
> 2007.047.14:48:57.02;"calm, overcast, distant thunderstorms
> 2007.047.16:48:09.38;"light rain
> 2007.047.16:53:44.53;"last minute cable delay was incorrect ok now
> 2007.047.18:23:55.51;"clear and calm, thunderstorms very distant
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