Almost ready

Well hello all! I actually have some news to report on this week even thou its not Thursday and school hasn't even started I (Eric) have been working hard preparing plans and new parts for this year! first i will start off with the new parts because that is always more interesting than plans.
As some of you might know Kara and I with the help of a programer will be working on a reserch project this year. It basically involves how weather conditions effect our dish. To start this project off we had to find a simple way to mesure temperature on both the front end and back end, as an added bonus to that the place that i orded the 2 temp sensors also happend to have a lighting detector, this comes into effect by showing what spikes on the scan are from lightning and what ones are from interferance. eventually all the sensors will be working together in a single program that takes data from the SpectraCyber (our back end) and the weather sensors, once all the data is in the program it will hopefully be able to get rid of any curves or spikes that match up with the curves or spikes of the weather sensors. The only thing I have to do with the sensors now is to do a actuall test of the lightning sensor this involves me getting a part from the RATz room and i doubt that will happen very soon. Once i do get the part all i have to do is set everything up again and test it on my computer. (this uses com ports and i don't have any). So once i get that all tested and know how it works it will probably be just about time to start school. well that was the parts now for the plans...err well whats left of the plans.
Well like always i have some plans that might never end up happening since im not gonna type the whole thing out again, you should go visit the NEW forum at http://gpratz.org/forum also if you are/ were in RATz i want you to join, its very boring in there right now we need some people to get the discussion going!!! so anyways its under telescope discussion and then "interferometer" err something like that. and yep you guessed it the plan is for a second telescope. now before you call me crazy take a look at the forum and see my points!! i have good reasons for us to have an interferometer. also i am thinking we should put it over at South, just because that would give us a nice distance and give the people over at south a reason to join RATz. As of now that idea is still kinda in the works i will let everybody know when i have a full plan for it.
Thats all for now, and remember to check out the new web site at gpratz.org
Cheers
-Bartos