Ray Uberecken and Bill Miller went to the Plishner site on Sat. October 31.
Ray brought back his EME 200 Watt amplifier box that he had removed on the previous weeks trip. The unit had blown a relay control FET that kept the unit in the transmit position so it would not connect the feed to the receiver. Ray and Bill donned climbing harnesses, scaled the scaffold, and installed the amplifier before the wind could start blowing about 11:00 AM at the site.
Ray also brought back the FT 736 Transceiver after repairing the seized tuning knob. He brought in a computer and an audio interface with JT-65 HF software loaded. This will enable digital mode EME on the next contest EME 50-1296 MHz — November 28-29, 2020. In addition, he installed an extra 1296 MHz 18 Watt auxiliary amplifier between the FT736 10W max output and the Amplifier at the feed point. This extra amplifier will enable the full power of the linear amp at the feed. Both the 18 watt amp and the 200 watt feed point amp are enabled with the Key circuit from the FT 736.
There is an extra power supply on the bench to power the 18 Watt amp and the key circuit to the feed amp is attached with the terminal block on the rack.
Ray also brought back the Electronic Keyer and Paddle for the FT736 moon bounce CW mode.
Once all this equipment was installed, we climbed the tower and replaced the bad swivel joint on the down feed coax with a short segment of very flexible RG8X cable to allow the cable wrap. Because this is the same impedance as the main hard line coax and very short it has insignificant loss to the signal.
We then called Myron Babcock to test the equipment. We pointed the dish at Colorado Springs and at first did not hear his signal. He swung his antenna around to point at Pike’s Peak and we did the same and established communication on 1296.1 MHz with clear copy. This proved the overall system viability.
Bill set up his phone app and computer program for aiming the Hughes Net dish for internet. After using the compass to point the dish to the apps specified Azimuth and Elevation and working the dish around for half an hour, we still couldn’t get the modem to lock up and receive the satellite. More research is needed to make sure we are trying for the correct satellite and have the right coordinates and tools to do the alignment on the next trip. Once we have the Hughes Net system working, we should have high speed internet capability for a number of uses.
Ray has been working on his new radio Astronomy receiver based on a medical signal preconditioner and a stable amplifier/integrator and A/D converter. The receiver will give a greater bandwidth than current SDRs with up to 100MHz of bandwidth.
A conversion program is needed to convert the comma delimited tabular output of the A/D to the .Fil file format for radio astronomy. Ray installed the receiver and checked its operation.
We stowed the dish, shut everything down, removed the trash and locked the site. Note that the new service position on the scaffold after the recalibration of the pointing system is 314.5 deg. All old bearings for Beacons and such should be adjusted by -2.5 deg.
Welcome to the July DSES Science meeting 7/27/2020
2020-07-27 DSES Science Meeting Notes: by Bill Miller
We had 14 participants in the virtual science meeting today: Thanks everyone for joining.
Participants: Dr. Rich Russel, Ray Uberecken, Ted Cline, Jonathan Ayers, Ed Corn, Gary Agranat, Glenn Davis, Jim Madsen, Bob Haggart, Jon Richardson, Dave Schick, Don Latham, Tony Bigbee, Bill Miller
Discussion of needed policy on site installs and changes
We have had a number of site conflicts of late. These have resulted in a lot of waisted installation and observation time and frustration as well as hard feelings between members and damage to the dish, and operations center.
General Proposal: I have often said that if you see something that needs improvement and you have the skill to do it, take it on and just do it. We need to qualify that with a little more process. In order to improve the site, equipment and observation capability and move the organization forward we often need to make changes. The Engineering meeting is where we coordinate and plan for these changes. If not previously planned and you are on site and need to make a change to a significant system you must call the person who installed or last modified that system and discuss it with them prior to removing, modifying or replacing it.
Use the Engineering Meeting for what it was intended.
Be considerate and helpful to each other.
Communication and coordination of equipment changes should not be a problem and further conflicts will have to be dealt with.
We will need to repair the damage.
We all have a common goal to improve the facility and equipment. Let’s not have these issues. When in doubt, Ask.
We will potentially have photographers on site Thursday or Saturday for comet picture opportunity. Would like to have a member on site to give access and keep the photographers out of trouble. Any volunteers?
Don Savage don.savage54 (at) gmail.com is coordinating 4 or 5 night sky photographers.
We will have them sign a Liability Waver
July-August Events:
The SARA virtual Eastern Conference will be held on Saturday and Sunday the 1st and 2nd of August. See the SARA web site for info and payment.
Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) is currently in the constellation of Ursa Major. The current Right Ascension is 11h 45m 40s and the Declination is +36° 12’ 10”
Additional pulsar observations. Please post planned dates and attendance
Additional SETI Observations. Please post planned dates and attendance.
Open house is cancelled for CoVid19, but we may do a small member camp out if some members would be interested in that.
We will also assemble a virtual Open House presentation for various usage such as public outreach, education, fundraising and general interest.
The Perseids will peak on Aug 11-12. On these nights, the moon will be 47% full.
The next dark sky moon phase is Aug 13th through Aug 21.
Glenn gave an overview of what was done recently on the System 1 Automatic Tracking HW and SW. New features include:
Automatic Tracking
RA and Dec track automatically
Az/El position command
Track Moon Command
Stow command
Tracking stayed within the bore site during the whole 5 hr. evening session.
Need to do more training, Glenn and his wife will go to the site tomorrow and draw up a training presentation and checklist.
Needs:
Sun exclusion track but there is a pop up on the screen that you are in the sun exclusion area.
It would be nice to have a Raster Scan capability to map Object Hi Emissions and to help pointing accuracy.
Rich provided his presentation on Pulsar, Fast Radio Burst and other experiments and observation we can do.
5. Rich gave high praise and kudos to the System 1 team to get a very high quality tracking and control complete. Very clean system design and implementation from Glenn Davis, Lewis Putnam and Phil Gage. Much praise.
Discussion/presentation on Pulsar and other science topics from Dr. Richard Russel
Welcome to the July DSES Engineering and Ops meeting
2020-07-13 DSES Engineering and Ops Meeting Notes: by Bill Miller
We had x participants in the virtual engineering meeting today: Thanks everyone for joining.
Participants: Dr. Rich Russel, Wallace A. Ritchie (WU1Y, Deland, FL), Ray Uberecken, Ted Cline, Mike Otte, Tony Bigbee, Bob Sayers, Jonathan Ayers, Fred Brandeberry, Ed Corn, Gary Agranat, Bob Haggart, Jon Richardson, Phil Gage, Don Latham, Bill Miller
Agenda and notes;
Check In
Latest Treasures Report from Myron Babcock. The current checking is $1707.69; Savings: $5741.95.
Discussion of policy on site installs and changes. Problems and conflicts.
I won’t be able to make it to this evening’s meeting; I have a late afternoon appointment. Anyway … I just wanted to give you some System 1 development status. Phil and I have completed software development for this version of the automatic tracking software. Phil has completed the software which allows the movement of the limit hardware. Lewis has completed integration of the automatic tracking hardware and has returned the hardware to me for some final testing (See Attached Photos). I’m currently testing the tracking software with the integrated hardware. I should have this finished by the end of the week. Lewis and my plans are to go down to Haswell sometime mid-week next week to check out the new hardware and software and to see if we can actually automatically track an object. We will be going down in separate cars and will be wearing masks when we’re working in the trailer. Our plans are to test the new system, then return the site to it’s original configuration. It should be exciting to see if the new System 1 hardware/software works …
Zoom Meeting Recording: Start Time : Jul 13, 2020 05:30 PM My apologies for missing the first 10 minutes of the recording on Zoom. The above notes cover that missing recording
2020-06-22 DSES Science Meeting Notes by Bill Miller. Science Presentation by Dr. Rich Russel.
Participants:
We had 19 participants in the virtual science meeting, a new record.
Dr. Rich Russel, Ray Uberecken, Myron Babcock, Don Latham, Bascombe Wilson, Ted Cline, Jon Richardson KU4PEH, Ed Corn, Storm Quant (Kevin Shoemaker), Jay Wilson, Glenn Davis, Gary Agranat, Dave Molter, Dave Schick, Bob Haggart, Jim Madsen K3ILC, Bob Sayers, Tony Bigbee, Bill Miller
Ray Uberecken , Bob Haggart and Bill Miller went to the Plishner site on Sat. June 20. See notes in Site trip report.
Covid-19 Policy:
Once again, we want to remind everyone to read our policy on Covid-19 on the webpage concerning meeting and going to the site. In summary; If you have had the virus or have had symptoms or been closely exposed to a positive person you should let us know and self-isolate from the group and others for 14 days and not meet of go to the site.
SARA east conference
Rich is the SARA east conference coordinator. The August conference is virtual and is $20 to participate on Sat-Sun Aug 1st and 2nd.
Attendance: Ed Corn, Gary Agranat, Myron Babcock, Phil Gage, Rich Russel, Bob Haggard, Dave Molter, Lewis Putnam, Jonathan Ares. Online via TeamViewer: Tony Bigbee.
Next work Trip in 21st of Sept. Gary and Ed may also use the 28th for to work on the tower.
Pointing System 1 HW/SW status and completeness: Phil Gage, Dave Molter, Johnathan Ares
3 weeks ago. Fixed the bad bit by jumpering to another channel and changed the SW to match. Tested and Ed verified last weekend.
Dish mount stiction and inertia make continuous control too erratic so need to do a step and drift control.
The team took data on the command voltage verses speed and found both axes to be pretty linear. See the graph.
Glenn added a computer supported manual control that tells the operator what commands to give the system to track manually. A little labor intensive but works.
With elevation axes is now stable and we should do a calibration using astronomical objects.
Should also mark the feed horn mountings to reduce the RF pointing error when changing or reinstalling the feed antenna.
Make a table of offsets for each feed and do a calibration for each feed.
Bill gave system 1 team the control relay circuitry used in System 2.
Pointing System 2 HW/SW status and completeness: Bill Miller
The PID control system that Ed Johnson implemented in the SW has been tested and can drive the dish mount to within one or two bits on the encoders.
The system worked fairly well on the last test in July except that the system would hang up and continue to drive the mount when it should have stopped. This sometimes caused an overshoot or required manual shut down.
Bill is building a physical simulator to make it easier to trouble shoot the system 2 without the Plishner Dish. In this way Ed can work on the SW at home and work out these last bugs.
It would be nice to have a second spare encoder to work this but the lowest cost one found on eBay was over $500.
Synchro pointing system status and completeness: Bill Miller
The Azimuth Synchro system worked when installed last year. Bill installed the Elevation Synchro in the early June Trip but when testing there was a problem in the system with a fault to ground. This is 120VAC supply current flowing where it shouldn’t and must be fixed to be safe.
Several of the old terminal boxes were used in the hookup. Bill suspects that one of those is causing the leakage. We will have to trace down and correct this before the synchro can be used as a backup pointing system.
Members are asked not to plug the synchro panel into AC power until this is resolved.
Dish Feed system status and changes
There was apparently a lightning strike on the dish this summer that took out the feed electronics and the power supply in the trailer.
Steve worked on the feed and found a bad amplifier. Steve rebuilt the amplifier pack and still found another bad amplifier. Skip sent Steve a set of amplifiers that he will install on the next trip.
Steve has the noise source to test the RF through the amplifier chain.
The power supply was also bad, and Skip shipped a new one that works.
Preparation for Stratospheric and Moon Bounce (EME) radio operation.
Ray and Steve terminated the hardline on the 3rd deck and will attach to extensions down to the tower base. One hard line is complete.
Need to be careful to get the feed mounted exactly as we had it.
Hope to be able to do Stratospheric long distance communication and Moon bounce (or EME) in the autumn or near future.
Status of Hydrogen Detector at Rich’s House
Rich has taken 4 declinations in a daily drift scan and is generating a composite color image of the HI emission.
Ray added a second LNA in the system that works much better than the first.
Drift scan HI is working well and anyone in the core group can get the data from Rich’s computer. Send him an email.
Pulsar Detector Status
Have the Cavity filter and Low Noise Amplifier for pulsar has just been received and we have the SDR made for this calibrated and ready to go from Steve and Joe Martin in New Mexico.
Will try for the strongest Pulsars with the long Yagi in Rich’s back yard.
A dish with tracking or a Yagi array would be better.
SETI observation plans and schedule
Steve has a
time crunch to fix the feed, power supply and amplifiers and make it work by
the end of September for a 3 day run.
Plans to do Tropospheric Radio Communication
Want to do
Texas, Kansas, New Mexico and Wyoming
Plans for Moon Bounce Radio Communication
Tentatively considering upcoming ARRL contest weekends. Two weekends in October 19th and 20th and November 16th and 17th.
Ham Radio Station and Antenna Status
Ed and Gary built the 50-foot tower and are ready to mount the tribander beam antenna for 10, 15 and 20 Meters on the rotor.
Will also mount a 2 meter antenna on the side of the tower for the talk in radio.
Ed reworked the buckled pipe section of the vertical antenna with some clamps and bradding to make a splint to repair.
Gary rechecked the vertical antenna SWR with an antenna analyzer. He reports antenna is working as well or better. He posted a table of SWR values for each band behind the station operating desk.
Repaired the broken radios.
Gary operated three QSO parties: for Hawaii, Ohio, and Kansas, and made CW and SSB contacts on all three.
In the open house we had a special event station and had a number of members get on the air.
When using the Ham radio Equipment make sure to unplug the Antennas from the radios when you leave.
The tower is a tip down design. The winch will tip down the tower to be able to lower the antenna and work on the antenna.
Infrastructure items
Ed has the Electrical system built out. A couple of stubs for add ons are all that is left.
Construction
Need a 32-inch steel clad pre-hung door for the top of the spiral staircase.
Need cement board to skirt the trailer. Dave may have some.
Installed the mid hallway door and it needs the blocking panel at the top
In the future would like to slit the tool room into two compartments.
Plumbing
After he amateur tower is finished Ed will install the hot water heater.
Will also install a European type shower.
Ed wants to have a dump station with a grinder pump and pump out the sewer line.
Ed uses a deveining rod method to locate the pipes and wires.
He says the sewer line runs to the SE corner of the lot were there is a square vault and then a pipe leaves that and goes across the road.
Outreach
Open House. Bill owes the group a report.
Need the Attendance list from Myron which was let in the Comm. Trailer
Need any additional photos that you took. Paul Berge may have more.
October Haswell Bazar. This will be in late October. Bill and Gary plan to support a table.
Myron’s Treasures Report
2067.75 Checking
5740.11 savings
At Monument Mega Fest made $356 selling surplus equipment.
United way Philadelphia $30
Collected $260 in dues and a $50 donation, $88 in food donations for the open house
Expense for electric account is $128 for July and will be between $70 and $125 monthly.
Telephone is $38.25/month for only 911 and the local exchange
55 members 35 voting 25 not voting
18 have not renewed
$90 charge for Eads newspaper ads for open house
General Discussion
May approach Dalton Eichenberg on spraying or getting a brush hog on the site.
CHIMES program in Canada. Canadian Hydrogen Mapping Long term project. They need infrastructure, power and fiber. 150 by 150 ft. footprint.
The block wall has made a big difference in the mud flow. The bulker hasn’t had a lot of water since the pump was replaced. Batteries in the battery box in the battery room are dead and Ed will hook in the RR batteries for the Inverter power.
Attendance: Gary Agranat, Ed Corn, Floyd Glick, Glenn Davis, Steve Plock, Rich Russel, Tony Bigbee, Ray Uberecken, Dave Molter, Jon Richardson, Bill Miller
Attending Remotely via TeamViewer: Skip Crilly, Dayton Jones, Jamie Riggs
Last Trips: Oct 19 Observation Trip. Oct 20 Work trip for ED. Steve, Hans, Gary, Paul
Next Trips to site: The regularly scheduled 3rd Saturday of the month, Saturday Nov 17th. Observation the night before on Nov 16th
Meeting Schedule:
DSES Technical and Operations Meeting- 2nd Monday of Every Month
DSES Science Meeting – 4th Monday of Every Month
Accuracy: The notes for this meeting may be out of order. This was done to group the discussion into subjects for better clarity and continuity, so they are not true chronological minutes. As always if I have misstated, omitted or misrepresented anyone please feel free to correct me WKM.
Agenda and Notes
Ray Uberecken has his mount ready to install a 12 ft dish with capability up thru the KU band. He needs to move the dish from the KCME radio station to his site in Payton. The dish F/D ratio is the same as the 60 ft Haswell dish, so the 12 ft dish could be used to prototype feeds and receivers for the Plishner site. Ray would like some volunteers from the DSES to help move it next Sunday the 28th at 10AM. (Note: Recent change of plans. Ray will hire a crane to pick the dish out of the KCME yard enclosure before disassembly. This is currently scheduled for 7 AM Saturday, November 10th.) He could use some volunteers, power drills with sockets and a trailer. KCME is at Fontanero and 1921 N. Weber in. Bill will send an EMAIL out to the group.
Once the dish is in place the first thing that Ray will install is a Dicke Switch.
Ray also wants to know if we want to use the 8 channel UHF remote at the site for reset and control of the systems. We have not been using it, but that is available and installed in the communications trailer rack and can be commanded remotely from Ray’s residence.
Ray has also started his optical observatory with 8 inch Celestron and a good refractor at his residence.
Dr. Rich Russel reviewed his new Radio Astronomy Guide Rev. 3.
The RA/Dec of many of the objects are from both celestial coordinate year 1950 epoch and year 2000 epoch, so needs updating.
The output of the SpectraCyber is in volts and a translation to Jansky is needed.
Rich and Gary observed a number of sources on the Oct. 19th observation trip.
Some source positions were very good. Others were not. This may indicate a pointing error or other system issue.
They were getting a lot of clear source signatures but don’t know what many of them were. Rich would like to do cross galactic scans while changing declination to map the whole area in the future.
Cassiopeia A, Cas-A, was thought to be seen, but at a relatively low amplitude. Cas-A, being a 2200 Jy source it should have been clearly seen but they weren’t sure they had it.
Sagittarius A was strong and had the instrument setup with too high of gain, resulting in scale saturation.
Special sources 1 and 2 were studied.
The special source 2, a contact binary star is getting close to a supernova event in a few years, and we want to baseline it and get ready to observe the supernova emission.
To find objects Gary used the tables in Rich’s observing guide and in the Data Book “Astrophysical Data: Planets and Stars” by Kenneth R. Lang.
The V notch object that Tony studied was not tried in Rich and Gary’s session.
Galaxy Observations:
Rich and Gary also did an experiment to measure the hydrogen (HI) Line Doppler shift and therefor the velocity along the galactic plane. They were able to get reasonable hydrogen measurements of the galaxy’s rotational velocity at multiple points from the center out to the radius of the sun.
Rich plotted these observations and got a curve that is in the ballpark but a little different than the published data on similar measurements. This is the first time that the Galactic angular velocity measurement has been attempted with the 60 ft. dish.
See Dr. Rich Russel’s attached Science Meeting presentation for more detail on the site trip and the observations mentioned above.
Tony Bigbee also went to the site for the observing session last week. Tony installed onto the system after Rich and Gary had finished. He did not get the expected results on the RASDR 4 receiver when attached to the 60 ft. dish over the weekend. He thought that the issue may be with the pointing accuracy of the System 1 controller. We used System 2 at the open house when Tony had very good results but did not get the same on this last weekend’s observation session using System 1. Tony looked for the V notch absorption object and is using a new code to calculate the source amplitude. He did not get good results on this and suspects pointing error.
He calculated the curves for the open house and last weekend’s observations showing time and discovered that these are different indicating that something is wrong between the two.
Tony did a Mollweide projection plot like the one below. In Tony’s plot the green line is the meridian, the blue line is the galactic plane. The black X is the position of the telescope. See Tony Bigbee’s actual plot when he posts or sends it out.
Figure 1 Example of a Mollweide Projection
Rich suggests that anyone going down to observe should measure some of these same sources and get data to compare their results.
SkipCrilly says we have aligned NRAO 5690 at Greenbank and Haswell sites three times using the System 1 controller and it seems to be positioning correctly. Steve can do an additional observation next week, Tuesday and Wed and verify the alignment.
Another difference from the open house observation was that Steve Plock added the alternate cavity filter configuration.
As mentioned previously the coordinates of some of the sources are from celestial coordinate year 1950 epoch and year 2000 epoch so may be different positions now due to precession and galactic movement. A mathematical correction to the coordinates may be required to make an accurate set of coordinates for the current date. However, the small difference afforded by this is probably within the capture angle of the dish.
Glenn Davis says that his NTP time sever may be useful to improve the accuracy of the pointing systems.
Bill Miller said that the System 1 controller may still have a discontinuous elevation reading error. This was seen previously this summer and has not been fixed. This could contribute to a pointing error and inaccuracy on some coordinates.
Additional Considerations:
Anyone going to do observations at the site should try to replicate the studies of the observation guide and use the Observation Checklist to make their session useful and comparative.
Currently the LMST is close to local time, and so one needs to consider this and observe in the evening instead of afternoon.
See the back of Rich Russel’s observing guide for dish rules and limits. An observation data sheet and suggestions are available in the back of the guide as well.
We need a list of some calibration sources to start all observing session with, to be sure that the pointing system is working properly and that it isn’t broken with new SW drops. Also, we hope the voltages we measure from calibration sources (with known Jansky levels), will enable us to derive the Janskies of other objects we wish to observe. Janskies are the measure of the flux density that the antenna receives.
Three papers have been accepted in the next SARA journal.
“The Deep Space Exploration Society 2018 Perseid Meteor Shower Open House”. By Bill Miller, Gary Agranat. Deep Space Exploration Society.
“SpectraCyber Neutral Hydrogen Measurements using the Deep Space Exploration Society 60 – foot Antenna System“. By Richard Russel D.Cs., Ae.E.; Gary Agranat. Deep Space Exploration Society.
“Dark HI Cloud Observation using the Deep Space Exploration Society Plishner 18 – Meter Dish with the RASDR4“. By Tony Bigbee, Richard Russel, Steve Plock. Deep Space Exploration Society.
Skip Crilly discussed his new 28 ft. antenna that has a 5 pixel or 5 separate antenna segment feed and is mounted on a cargo trailer but will be used mostly for SETI. The antenna may not be large enough to observe the strange signals we have seen. File size is one challenge since it is inversely proportional to the gain and noise ratio.
Meeting was adjourned after much secondary discussions not captured here.
Old 9/24/2018 Agenda and Notes from last science meeting:
Glenn Davis proposes a graphical user interface called Astro Guide that would allow better guiding and tracking of radio sources.
Rich’s presentation and overview of the radio astronomy guide
Started with Floyd’s list
Added the 1420 MHz sources from the book “Tools of Radio Astronomy” by K Rohlfs and T Wilson.
Added the hydrogen measurements from K5SO, Dr. Joe Martin who has provided signature images of the objects.
Gary, Jay Wilson, Rich and Steve all went to the site on 9/22 and did observations using the 60 foot dish.
Used Spectra Cyber
Used system 1 pointing
Used the new setup with the cavity filter
Limit switches are set at +/-15 ether way of north. CCW to 345. CW to 015.
Gary got great pictures of the event.
Need screen print capability to capture the Spectra Cyber parameters display.
The Spectra Cyber SW is easy to take the data and use it.
Need a Lap Top with a com 2 serial port to attach the spectra cyber. This is difficult because most of the Serial to USB port adapters don’t want to set for Com1 or Com2.
Need to do calibration sources before and after observation of an observed object and keep all settings on the Spectra Cyber the same.
From Tony, “To avoid problems of solar interference all observations were made between sunset and sunrise. Most scans were taken with the telescope on the meridian.” Galt and Kennedy, 1968, ‘Survey of Radio Sources Observed in the Continuum near 1420 MHz, Declinations —5° to +70°’ http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1968AJ…..73..135G
Rich presented a number of plots from their observations. See Rich’s report.
The scan across the galaxy were at one RA. The radio hot area was offset from the optical.
The galactic rotation rate was also observed.
Got a lot of raw data, learned how to catalog it and analyze it.
The calibration sources did not show any signal above the noise.
Got good data for Sagittarius A, SAG A.
3 Papers have been submitted for the SARA Journal.
The Western SARA conference is in Boulder in March.
On Saturday July 29th Dave Molter, Rich Russel, Steve Plock, Ed Corn, Michael and Gail Lowe, and Bill Miller went to the Plishner telescope site and did the following:
1. Steve, Ed, Bill, Dave, Michael, Steve and three women volunteers from Las Animas cleaned all of the scrap metal, wood and unused tech equipment out of the bunker, and loaded as scrap onto Ed’s trailer.
2. They also cleaned out the scrap from the pedestal and in front of the new outhouse.
3. Dave and Ed both took full trailer loads of scrap back to Colorado springs for salvage.
4. Rich brought his lawn tractor and mowed all the grass and weeds along the road and in the open space, AKA the Diane Uberecken Memorial Park area around the dish.
5. Dave and Bill unloaded about 700 lbs of concrete and sand that Dave brought into the bunker, for use on rebuilding the retaining wall.
6. Ed wired up the breaker panel in the outhouse and attached the RV outlet wires.
7. Steve installed the RV outlet pedestals by driving steel fence posts and attaching the outlets.
8. Dave cleaned out the bottom of the bunker ramp and worked on some of the retaining wall.
9. Bill measured and accessed the installation for the elevation synchro wires and liquid-tight conduit from the upper deck to the control deck of the pedestal.
