Comments | wolphin: Well hi there!

wolphin

Well hi there!

Aug 29, 2013 20:33

Ok, I've been through some fairly major changes in the past month. Let's see, roughly in order... said bye to housemate of 10 years, resigned, bought house, bought new car, sold old car, moved towns, started new job, moved into new house. It is a lot of changes over a short period of time ( Read more... )

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wolphin August 30 2013, 14:07:19 UTC

We're classified as a remote site which means we have to travel with a survival pack, extra water, radios, satellite phone, logger/reporter thingie and an EPIRB. If the car breaks down, we press buttons, find somewhere shady and wait.

nauta August 30 2013, 04:33:00 UTC

I think I'd like to see that in person.

wolphin August 30 2013, 14:11:19 UTC

If you come over here I might see if I can sneak you in, going to take a while though, I want to be there a while before I start seeking permission to invite folks out there. You need permission to see anything other than one antenna near the main gate, just in case you had ambitions of driving past. :)

nauta August 30 2013, 14:16:53 UTC

I have a long way to come, either way... =P

wolphin August 30 2013, 16:43:30 UTC

It's 4hrs from town - About 1hr on paved roads and 3 on gravel. Nearest town is 3hrs away. When they were building it, one truck driver needed to get his smokes - was an 8hr round trip for him.

drhoz August 31 2013, 14:59:25 UTC

you need to build more pylons

drhoz August 31 2013, 15:00:17 UTC

also, what kind of termites are those?

wolphin September 1 2013, 10:24:23 UTC

Umm, small white ones? I don't know, I just know that if you leave some tasty wood on the ground and go to lunch, don't expect it to be there when you get back.

And we have 36 dishes, more are coming apparently.

drhoz September 2 2013, 22:38:21 UTC

could be Mastotermes darwiniensis perhaps. If you do see any interesting insects, spiders, scorpions etc about up there, could you perhaps get some photos? I'd love to expand the range of "things I Get To I.D."

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wolphin September 1 2013, 10:23:24 UTC

Yeap, this is the ASKAP (Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder). 36 dishes at the moment, but only 6 have the collectors on them, they're still figuring out what works, but essentially we should be getting something like 25 more collectors in the next year or so, then the ones that miss out will be used for different projects. Then they want to add a bundle more dishes to it.

As far as I know, I can talk about it, because I haven't been told I can't and it's not very secret.