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Mamoru Sekido - 23 Jan 2016
Yebes
The 13.2m antenna stopped operations (VS observations with the S/X/Ka receiver) on January 8th and is under upgrade works: the backstructure is being covered with cladding and fans are being installed in between the backstructure and the cladding. The three band receiver cryostat is going to be updated with a new head, and a new compressor compatible with the broad boand receiver is beeing installed. All these works are expected to complete in February 18th.
The new broadband receiver with a quadrige horn was mounted in the lab during the third week of January and it will be tested during the next weeks.
4 UDCs have been built and are mostly finished. We have been waiting for the delivey of some filters for some weeks and it is foreseen they will arrive but the end of februrary. Once they are completed they will undergo tests and be installed together with the optical modules in the backends room.
One Mark6 has been received and will be installed during the first week of february. 12 diskpacks 32 TB each have been purchased.
Pablo de Vicente - 28 Jan 2016
S/X Observations with fast antenna network
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