and also to provide some more room for assembly .
We ordered a gantry crane to help with assembly of the
receiver, but it hasn't come yet, so we had to improvise
with the manlift.
Make sure that rigging is good....
suspended.
And into the receiver cart
And finally into the container
Ziggy gets the 240 mK 3He refrigerator
ready for installation.
Starting point for assembling the receiver
Dave explores how high we can go in the manlift.
Daniel working in our internet cafe that is disguised
as a tent.
Ziggy and the receiver showing the focal plane supports
Installing the water chiller for the pulse-tube
compressor.
Sunrise over the Owens Valley Radio Observatory site
The Sierra Nevada
Breakfast at the valley site
Kam and Chase cooking everyone a scramble
Kam, Bryan, and Dave working on the
telescope
Pulse tube passes pre-installation test
Bryan is king of all he surveys...
Dave working in the telescope
Kam assembling the focal plane in some stylish
headgear.
Ziggy working on the receiver
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