Tues, 9/6/2011 - AAL-PIP Dry Run for 2011-2012 Deployment

This year, there will be a total of six members for AAL-PIP deployment in Antarctica. Bob McPherron from UCLA and Gary Bust from ASTRA visited VTech to join the other AAL-PIP deployment team members including Bob Clauer, Majid Manteghi, Kshitija Deshpande, Joseph Macon and me (Hyomin Kim) from VTech. The dry runs scheduled for today and tomorrow are intended to give Bob McPherron, Gary Bust, and Majid Manteghi, who will be the first time visitors in Antarctica, hands-on experience of the AAL_PIP system ("System 5"). It is raining pretty heavily today so we stayed inside the Satellite Tracking Building at VTech, in which our instruments are located, to go over our system and especially to try to assemble the battery box, which might be somewhat challenging for the first-timers. We also practiced cables which connect between the electronics box and the battery box.