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Old 05-11-2013, 01:49 PM
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Old 06-11-2013, 12:05 AM
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Thanks Ron!

Starting to get exciting now.

Click on any of the "Work Packages" and each of them are massive chunks of engineering.

Take for example just "Low-Frequency Aperture Array" (LFAA) -
http://www.skatelescope.org/skadesign/wp/lfaa/
Over a quarter of a million wide bandwidth antennas!

You would want to take a break from designing the signal processing electronics for
them to check the insulators have been designed to be cockatoo proof.
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