Lab Facilities

The Science Lab is more excellent than before, and I am very grateful for the generous space provided to IMEEMS. Brent O'Brien set up the analysis computer beside the TV/VCR, and Hiroshi Shimizu set up the tape playback equipment in the visitors room. I greatly appreciated Howard Nicholson maintaining and operating my new computer-based equipment in 1989, and warmly welcome Bruce McGregor's expertise and interest this year. The only major maintenance task for me at the lab was to dissemble and clean all the Yagi receiving antennae. Corrosion was page 45 causing some rectification, which caused many false triggerings of the digital seismograph during 5400 transmissions. A spare antenna and lead- in were added to avoid the problem last winter, when one signal from Erebus was lost by an antenna fault.