MORE random pics......

[JeremyD]

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/g/gator.htm

The swiming Picture...

http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/gatordeer.asp

The 2nd Picture
http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/wcgator.asp

a true picture

[kach22i]

http://vancouverislandbirds.com/Journal168.html


http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/other_corporation/?offset=510



Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System - EMALS
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/systems/emals.htm


http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/other_corporation/?offset=510

[scottmandue]

Originally posted by JeremyD

Excuse me... may I play through?


Random:

[70SATMan]

[70SATMan]

[masraum]

Originally posted by 70SATMan

Many hills around there? Low look angles? That thing looks like it's up on a pretty tall pedestal.

How big? 10 meters or so?

[70SATMan]

Doin some alignments:



Putt'n on some finishing touches:



Finished Product:



South African Sunset:

[70SATMan]

Originally posted by masraum
Many hills around there? Low look angles? That thing looks like it's up on a pretty tall pedestal.

How big?

That's a Teeny one. 14M diameter We've done up to 34M.

The main reason for the bunkhouse is that the system equipment is housed there with fiber IFLs to the main control room. Extremely serious lightning there so the further from Control the better. NASA used to track from here during the Moon missions.

[masraum]

You've got a bunch of them. Gov't work?

[70SATMan]

Crap! I JUst noticed. That "finished product" antenna is the not the same one from the lift sequence and me on the manlift. It's the second one we put in at that site 3 yrs later. It's a 13M Ka. THe first was a 14M Ku/DBS. Same basic structure design though. Same blockhouse design.

[masraum]

My company's biggest is only 13M. Yowza, 34M is big.

Very cool. I'm more of a data guy and pretty much an RF idiot. I know just enough of the acronyms to be trouble. I understand how it works.

We've got some C band and K DBS stuff. We provide voice/data for mostly the oil industry.

[70SATMan]

Originally posted by masraum
You've got a bunch of them. Gov't work?

We are basically a commercial group that's now owned by GD. Previously we were TIW, Vertex, VertexRSI. We've had government contracts with JPL, Goldstone etc in the past. Mainly we build for Lockheed, Boeing, Intelsat, Echostar, Direct TV etc. My current project is part of a Lockheed project replacing the Navy's UFO communications. We're providing the antenna systems as fixed price COTS (commercial off the shelf).

That antenna I posted in error with the small aquisition antenna mounted on the rim of the dish was built for Boeing Space Systems use.

I'll have to post some pictures of a Telescope we just finished at the South Pole.

[70SATMan]

Originally posted by 70SATMan
COTS (commercial off the shelf).

Man that line always cracks me up when I think of it.

Here's the last Lockeed job I worked on in South Dakota before they sold it to Echostar. 13 and a 9 Ku.





The sister Boeing 13M Ka to the SA Ka above and a 9M Ka.



I'm out for the night:

[Steve PH]

A few more on this thread I found http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=371456&f=109&h=0

[Joeaksa]

Originally posted by 70SATMan
Here's the last Lockeed job I worked on in South Dakota before they sold it to Echostar. 13 and a 9 Ku.

Jeez those are big. Makes my old 5 meter dish in Saudi look small!

Joe

[kach22i]

http://boatdesign.net/forums/showthread.php?t=16210&page=7

[djmcmath]

Random picture -- dry-fitting my kitchen tile. What a way to spend a weekend!

[70SATMan]

Originally posted by Joeaksa
Jeez those are big. Makes my old 5 meter dish in Saudi look small!

Joe

Hey Joe. Dig these 18Ms we will be building (12 total) on my current project. They are essentially the same structure (with a lot more stiffening up required) as this one we put up in Hawaii.

[70SATMan]

Here's a pic of me riding that South Dakota 13M up to do a little fine tuning!



To bad the 18Ms have a reflector hatch for access.

[cmccuist]

Originally posted by djmcmath
Random picture -- dry-fitting my kitchen tile. What a way to spend a weekend!

DJ, did you ever see this gadget? Tile setter hey have it for $20 at Harbor Freight. It works real well. A guy in St Croix invented it.