Mosaic of the main reflector which is 1000 ft in diameter ( or 26 football fields!).
Now..., isn't this the biggest waveguide you've ever seen?? Two of
us could fit in there.
Well, we're talking of only a few hundreds of MHz (that explains the
size), but hundreds of Mega Watts!.
What would be the ohmic losses for the TE10 mode?...
The main Control room. Dr. Kiriaki, a pulsar physicist, was our
guide inside these rooms, (she's not in the picture).
We also saw the huge klystron tubes,...and contrary to some reporters
observations, they're NOT missiles!
Students being happily radiated. There's our guide Eugene Lauria
(Gene), a microwave engineer.
We met at UMass 10 years ago in a microwave engineering course!
[From left, Gene, Keila's friend,Keila, me, Ortega, Nelson, Jorge,
Geisa, Madeline,
Luis, Aguiar, Guillermo, Julio,
and gone shopping to the gift shop, Carol and Yanira]
The new Visitors Center. Very comprehensive demos and movie!
We had lots of fun pressing all the buttons!
After so much mountain climbing, hey, we got to eat too! Ask Yanira.
The feed was moving in azimuth and elevation. Here is a shot
of it showing the new Gregorian feed system.
Thanks to José Ortega (not related to the mexican tortillas)
for taking the pictures, ...and holding the feed.
Thanks, most of all, to Gene for being such an informative and friendly
guide, to his wife Kiriaki for her interesting talk and answers to our
questions, and to all the personnel at the Observatory for letting us in
through all the facilities.
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