The Opal flight team works on Opal operation at the Big Dish.
 
 

Mike Cousins and Steve XXX discuss the plan for dish tracking.

Greg and Jamie anxiously await Opal rising.

Greg, our software wizard, boggles at the hardware!

Corina, Greg, and Jamie listen for Opal.

Action shot of Jamie and Zsolt.

Jamie works on the radio. It required continual percussion adjustments...fine tuned dropping and smacking to ensure proper operation.

John Ellis works on measuring radio outputs.

The driver, Mike Cousins, takes a break between passes. Lars is off to the right.

Jamie Cutler looks on as Dan Oltrogge plays with the HP. They may actually be caclulating something.

Screen shot of the tracking software, Sattrack by Bester. We've modified their freeware version to meet our needs.

Jamie adjusts the radio probably toying with doppler shift.