Wallops Island Antenna Overhaul Trip Part I, May 2018
By: ksterne on: Mon., July 02, 2018 02:56 PM EDT (3283 Reads)Blackstone Antenna Repair Trip, May 2018
By: ksterne on: Fri., June 29, 2018 02:44 PM EDT (3040 Reads)
Following the April 2018 overnight trip to Blackstone when many of the transmitters were repaired, a trip was needed to make some repairs to the antenna array. On leaving the radar during the April trip, there were more transmitters in working condition that there were antennas. A trip was organized in order to make repairs to the antenna array including antenna feeder cables, antenna wires, baluns, resistor boxes, and reflector wires. Dr. Mike Ruohoniemi, Paul Kennedy, and Kevin Sterne made 2-day trip to the site in order to make these repairs and investigate any other issues along the antenna arrays.
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