[mmaimcal]BIWEEKLY CALENDAR OF THE ALMA PROJECT at NRAO

Mon Aug 30 16:57:04 EDT 2004

                        BIWEEKLY CALENDAR OF THE ALMA PROJECT at NRAO
                                August 30 - September 13, 2004

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 SUBTEL, the Chilean government telecommunications entity has issued a
Resolution on 12 August that concludes the process of establishing a
Radio Quiet Zone around ALMA, the second such zone in the world after
the Green Bank RQZ. The Resolution protects ALMA by establishing
stringent limits to emissions within ALMA's observing and intermediate 
frequency bands currently attributed to Radio Astronomy. The Resolution 
creates a zone of coordination 120 km in radius of which the first 
30 km are of exclusion.
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General Happenings

Chile:  An ALMA RQZ was established; see above.  At the OSF, the ALMA Camp is
completed pending installation of some kitchen equipment.  

TUC: Photonics LO system tests continue.  An LO Review will be held 8 September
with video participation of sites in CV, ESO and elsewhere.  The objective
is to review of the state of the 1st Local Oscillator design maturity, as well 
as work plans and work organization as this effort is picked up by BE and FE 
IPTs.

NAASC: Presentations were made to the current CV staff on the structure of the
NAASC.  A TWiki page for the NAASC may be found at:
https://wiki.nrao.edu/bin/view/ALMA/NAASC

NTC:  Both mixer-preamps for the Band 6 (1.3mm) first production cartridge 
that essentially meet ALMA specs.   A beam measurement system has been built.
First integrated testing for the first quadrant, production correlator was done
17 August.  

AOC:  A retrofitted digitizer assembly was shipped back to the AOC from 
Bordeaux.    
The Computing IPT received the report from the CDR2 panel.  R. Hills and A.
Stirling (Cambridge) visited to prepare for WVR installation and tests at the
ATF.

DAILY CALENDAR (Times EDT )

Mon  30 Sept 	
9:30 AM-10:30 AM: NA Project Office Staff Meeting
10:30 AM-12:00 PM: JAO/IPT Teleconference
 Tue 31 Oct	
12:15 PM: CV Tuna (http://www.cv.nrao.edu/tuna/):
                Paul Vanden Bout, NRAO "The North America ALMA Science Center"
 4:00 PM-5:00 PM: NAScienceIPT teleconference (open to all interested 
                                parties) (434)296-7082
                        Agenda: http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~awootten/mmaimcal/ 
 Wed 01 	
10:30 AM-12:00 PM: ASAC Teleconference
 Thu 02 	
8:30 AM-10:00 AM: JAO Teleconference
 Fri 03 	
1:00 PM: AOC Colloquium
         Ylva Pihlstrom, NRAO: Probing the Nuclei of Merging Galaxies with 
          OH Megamasers 	
 Sat 04 	
 Sun 05 	
 Mon 06 	
All day event: NRAO Holiday
9:30 AM-10:30 AM: NA Project Office Staff Meeting
 Tue 07 	
1:00 PM-2:30 PM: NA DH Teleconference
4:00 PM-5:00 PM: NAScienceIPT teleconference (open to all interested 
                                parties) (434)296-7082
                        Agenda: http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~awootten/mmaimcal/ 
 Wed 08 	
11:00 AM-12:00 PM: Software Science Req. Group Teleconference
 Thu 09 	
8:30 AM-10:00 AM: JAO Teleconference
10:30 AM: ASAC Teleconference
 Fri 10 
3:00 PM: ANASAC Teleconference
 Sat 11 	
 Sun 12 	
****************************** UPCOMING EVENTS ******************************
ALMA Calendar  

    * 10 September -- ANASAC Telecon
    * 23 September -- ALMA Board Telecon
    * 24 September -- ALMA/EU Meeting, Garching
    * 27-28 September -- ASAC face-to-face meeting, Charlottesville
    * 29 Sept - 1 October -- face-to-face IPT Leads Meeting, Charlottesville
    * 4-8 October -- The Cool Universe: Observing Cosmic Beginnings
                     Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Valparaiso, Chile
    * 11-12 Oct -- AMAC Meeting, Florence, Italy
    * 11-13 Oct -- New Windows on Star Formation in the Cosmos
                    University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
    * 27-29 Oct -- Dusty and Molecular Universe Paris
    * 29 Oct -- ANASAC Telecon
    * 2-3 Nov -- ALMA Board Face-to-face Meeting, OSF, near San Pedro de Atacama
    * 2 December -- ALMA Board Telecon
    * 5-7 Jan 2005 -- UNSC URSI Boulder meeting Commission J
    * 6 Jan 2005 -- ANASAC Telecon
    * 11 Jan 2005 - ALMA Town Meeting, AAS San Diego
    * 27 Jan 2005 -- ALMA Board Telecon

******************************* TECHNICAL NEWS *******************************
ALMA Memo # 504    The CloudSat Radar and Implications for ALMA
ALMA North American Technical Advisory Committee (ANATAC)
submitted by Darrel Emerson (NRAO) 2004-08-23
CloudSat is a downward-looking 94 GHz satellite-borne radar, due for launch in 
April 2005. The peak EIRP of the radar beam is some 4.109 watts, which is 
sufficient to damage ALMA receivers on the ground if ALMA antennas and the 
orbiting radar ever look directly at each other. Although the likelihood of 
this happening is very small, ALMA does need to take some operational 
precautions to avoid receiver damage, and to flag data that will be 
contaminated by radar interference.

View a pdf version of ALMA Memo #504 at:
http://www.alma.nrao.edu/memos/html-memos/alma504/memo504.pdf
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