[evlatests] EVLA Antenna work today
Walter Brisken
wbrisken at aoc.nrao.edu
Tue Feb 28 22:31:04 EST 2006
> Antenna 13 L-Band RCP - The heliax cable on the output of the receiver was
> loose to the point where we were amazed it had been working at all. It has
> been tightened.
>
> Antenna 14 IF B Intermittent loss of power - The cable from the correlator
> room wall bulkhead panel to the D-Rack is broken. Lee is making a replacement
> as I write this and it will be installed tomorrow.
I'm kind of curious how cabling issues like the above happen and if there
is something, either procedural or technical, that can be done to improve
reliability of cabling. Given the number of connectorized cablings that
the (E)VLA has (10^4 to 10^5 or so, perhaps), if every cable has on
average one failure in its lifetime of say 30 years, that would be 1 to 10
cable problems every day!
-W
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