Activity Reports

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07/08/07 Installation of Boots on Upper Dish, Evaluate Synchro Problem

05/16/07 Presentation to Longmont Amateur Radio Club

05/06/07 Install bird "Guano Guard" on upper dish, Measure for future radome

04/15/07 Cable for elevation syncros, Painting, Box for upper dish motor controllers

04/01/07 Guest visits, Selsyn cables, Calibrate pointing offset of lower dish

03/25/07 Upper dish RF Characterization Measurements

03/24/07 CU Student Site Visit

03/11/07 Lower dish downconverter, lower dish manual, Prep for EOSS-115 balloon flt

02/04/07 Install hydroxyl line receiver on lower dish

02/04/07 Proposal for Mira observations

02/03/07 Site inspection, Snow

12/10/06 Synchros, Radio astronomy searches, Discuss upper dish calibration

12/03/06 Synchros, Cable to lower dish, Proposal for solar observing project

11/26/06 SpectraCyber temperature sensitivity, selsyns, SC data collection

11/14/06 Report of DSES missing gear

11/12/06 Mount SpectraCyber, OH searches, DSES eqmt tagged, Cables, Educational charts

11/05/06 Facilities repairs, Work on signal cable from lower dish

10/29/06 Work on signal cable to lower dish

10/15/06 Preparations for EOSS-113, Lower dish signal cable, Upper dish manual

10/08/06 Clean jack screws, Lubricate upper dish

09/17/06 Work on radio gear, Clean up facility

09/10/06 Lower dish tracking, Syncros, Servers, Data logger, both dishes moving together

08/27/06 Signal detection, SpectraCyber upgrade, New dual feed front end built

08/27/06 Joseph A. DiVerdi presentation at the Society of Amateur Scientists

08/20/06 Setup what is being called the 'Chinese Radio'

08/06/06 Selsyns, Install log detector for SMP project, Remount lower dish elevation motor

07/16/06 Replace SMP feedhorn, RFP, Selsyns, Rebuild steps, Missing gear

07/16/06 Replace LNA on upper dish and characterize it

05/21/06 Progress on Lower Dish Work, cables, feed mounts, selsyns, boots

06/07/09 Trace out lower dish synchro controller wiring, Cleanup, Work on the CUE Project Plan

06/25/06 Characterization of the RF Systems on the Upper and Lower Dishes

06/04/06 Mount HI Horn on Lower Dish, Repair Upper Dish Brake, SMP data, Selsyns, ATV dipole

05/22/06 Progress on Lower Dish, Cables, Feed Mounts, Selsyns, Boots

05/20/06 Direction Controller Connection to PC, 426MHz antenna

03/25/06 Lower Dish Tracks Moon and Sun, DSES Restoration Efforts Continue

03/13/06 DSES Milestone: Lower Dish Tracks Moon

01/22/06 Anemometer and VLF radio operation restored, Work on signal recovery methods

01/15/06 Lab Cleanup, SMP Operation Begun, Morgie Down, Prepare Data Set for Pulsar Detection

12/09/05 Progress on Lower Dish, Breakers, Drive Motors, Power

11/19/05 Work on Lower Dish Power Wiring

11/12/05 EOSS-100 Tracking Report and Critical Review, Site Improvements, Unscheduled Meeting

11/06/05 New Motors and Motor Control Panel Emplaced in Lower Dish

10/16/05 Lower Dish Scaffold, Painting Control Panel

10/08/05 Visitors, Lower dish position control panel, GPS RX turned off, CGI for SpectraCyber

10/02/05 Work on Lower Dish Control Panel

10/02/05 Antenna controller, ICOM PCR-1000 test, Prospective member, SpectraCyber controller

09/24/05 Changing Racks, Changing Servers, Power Outage

08/26/05 Testing of new absolute encoder on upper dish

08/19/05 Trouble shoot VLF, connect anemometer, on pulsar observations, SpectraCyber RX, NCLUG

08/01/05 DSES Represented at NASA Balloon Science Workshop

07/12/05 Deep Impact Tracking - Final Report

06/23/05 Horizon Data Computed for DSES Upper Dish

06/19/05 New Method of Analysis for Drift Scan Data

06/12/05 Feed Horn Work, Computer Configuration and Naming, Setup Data Logging

06/12/05 Scaffold Repair, Site Clean up, New Electrical Cabinet, Rodents, New Azimuth Motor

06/01/05 Activity Report, Dual Frequency Feed Horn Completed

05/28/05 Activity Report, Motors Removed, Paul Berge, Slate

01/04/05 Report on Tracking of EOSS-90, University of Kentucky Big Blue

01/04/05 Report on Soft Gamma-Ray burst detection; Hydrogen receiver calibrations using 3C033

12/26/04 Report on radio astronomy and other work projects at T-22

11/13/04 Report on radio astronomy work activities at T-22

10/11/04 First full-up test of tracking an extra galactic radio source under computer control

10/10/04 First time test of Paratrack controlling the upper dish, successfully tracked the Sun and ISS

08/31/04 Report on work activities at T-22

05/01/04 EOSS-76 Tracking Report, very successful recording of balloon video telemetry