Somewhere and Nowhere

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The switch I installed in for the riometer did not do the job, so today, after the usual answering e-mails for a couple hours, I went out to do a more thorough inspection. Before I left, though, I met up with Jason, the RA here, to see if he had an indicator and a power chord I could use to rock out (hehe, power chord). Actually, the power chord is for plugging the Data Acquisition Unit (DAU) into a standard wall outlet, and the indicator is to determine whether data is being transferred from the DAU to the modem and from the modem to UNH.

Jason didn't know what I was talking about and neither did I, so I just took something with a lot of lights on it. By this time it was already lunch hour, so I ate and went on a jot down to the Scott Base store to check out what they had while I could. Not a whole lot that interested me -- some clothes, post cards, and nick-kacks. I left empty-handed, got back to McM, caught the shuttle, and went to work.

After some fiddling with the riometer, I found some crossed wires (my fault :-p), righted them, and fixed the problem.

After some fiddling with the DAU, I gave up and went back to camp needing more specifics.

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Photos

Gift Shop
and some signage.

The System
DAU and modem

The System (II)
backside

Lights!
now what does it do?