Yesterday, after some aggressive treatment, our noise problems went into remission. Turns out the fix was some preamp board modifications we wanted to do from the beginning, but had decided didn’t work, so never completed. Isn’t that always the way.
On a sadder note, yesterday was Juan’s last official day. Delays are not uncommon, but since the plane he will (nominally) leave on has arrived in McMurdo, it will probably be gone today. And Juan with it. Last night, everybody showed up the the Coffee House for a going away party.
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- Mark’s turn in the crawlspace, pulling cards out
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- The board repair assembly line
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- I wanted to join in (changing surface mount resistors is fun), but had other business
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- I was looking with Barth for other noise, in the DAS power supplies
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- We searched with a microphone for the source of whistling in the crate
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- Elio soldering, with his magnificent magnifying mask
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- Jeff and Enzo move onto testing the boards
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- Natalie works in hideouts. Because of cable constraints, she spent the morning under the gondola
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- Juan sets up the camera for a group photo
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- Then tweaks the frame
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- Matt mans the camera, as Juan and I scope out where people should stand
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- Juan marks the good spot with a crazy dance
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- Prototype group photo (uploaded by Juan to his flickr). Matt is going to tweak this, mainly to account for the bad lighting
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- Bags
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- Bye Juan!
I’ll be back!
As long as you have not changed to a murderous revenge-lusting copy of yourself, you’d be welcome.