Thursday, April 4, 2013

Radar Daze 88

You know its been a heck of a day when you have not sat in your chair for more than 30 minutes in a day. Especially interesting day chasing a radar problem.....

Tony adjusting the dish to line up the interlocks for Az. and El.

Left side of the dish with one waveguide reaching around the front.
Back of the dish.. counterweights.. and Tony

Awesome technical... light.... lolol.. cool.

Not such an idle warning.

Feedhorn with two waveguides of Dual Pol.


Access door from very long stairs.

Looking down..down down... cant believe I climbed up there three times.


AME cabinet and cabling. More cool lookin.


Abstract of the ..FLOOR! Nifty huh.. Should see this big.

Gloves.. cause getting up the tower is not very clean... nasty really... This is one of the safety interlocks so we dont get fried.

Some of the minor cautions.... noting to worry about at all...


Test equipment.. not all of it... but.... BUTTONS!!!!!

Nothing wrong with it at all.. nope.. uh uh... right... REBOOT!
Nothing to worry about at all......

Naaa....


We had to go up the radar twice.. once to install a blower on the .. or in the...AME.. First we had to remove some jumpers that we were not told about... then.. install it.. and install a relay.. and a card we got that was supposed to be new and functional. After we closed everything up and went back to the office .. it failed hard....

so .. back up we went again. Replaced the card ( processor ) with the old one and it worked fine after we REBOOTED... well there ya go... now we are watching and waiting to see if its gonna go nuts again..

error 741

We shall see...  Plus I got to do some more tone mapping.

LINKS


cool look at it.


Debris!!!


Office radar page