[Lowfer] Testing tonight

[Steve Dove]

Hi Bill and Mike,

Two things:  Yes, the 'Grabulator' froze last night  -  we lost cable as a result
of the windy-coldy stuff that's going on presently.  It's back up this morning.
I tried running the entire enterprise down the 'safety-net' dial-up  -  what a joke!

Secondly, particularly with the omni antenna which is presently feeding the
'Grabulators' so as not to diss anyone, storm static from anywhere from here to
Tierra del Fuego desenses the system.  There are times reception is useless
here, but John, Bill, Jay and others just a bit further up make pretty pictures.
Oh, well.  A good indication if that is what is going on is to check the 'mystery
meat' line at 302.5 (you know Mike, THAT one).  It is propagated, but obviously 
not far. Local. If that is being chopped up, it is indicating desensing.  A look at 
the DCF39 plots, both spectral and temporal, will show if there's elevated noise
here.

Lemons to lemonade, such lines can be made useful.  Indeed last season
I made a 'spoiler' trace deliberately on the edge of the transatlantic window for
exactly this purpose.  All it took was 2" of solder poked into the BNC on the
oscillator output of the HP 3586 analyser.

        Cheers,

                Steve
  



01/16/04 06:48:30, "Bill Ashlock" <ashlockw@hotmail.com> wrote:

>>Definitely on.
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>Then you have a nice null down here.
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>>It is showing a few spurts on the grabber every so often.
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>Are you sure the Grabulator is working at your base and not stuck (as in: 
>frozen solid <G>) ? I keep seeing 3:39am.
>
>Bill
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