My work partner and I received a page at 4am Thursday to check on one of the antennas. We attempted the drive up the hill with our 4-wheel drive van but quickly became stuck in the snow. We gathered our gear and walked down to where the Pisten Bully's (PB) are parked and proceeded to follow the lengthy start up procedure. Since there is a 30 minute warm up window we found some shelter as the wind was biting cold and dangerous. We then were able to access the antenna and found that the dish had moved down to the limit and stuck. We hand moved it out of the limit then used a laptop to command it to stow. The bottom line was 5 minutes of real work took us over 3 hours.
Wednesday evening walk to dinner.
Outside of the radome.
As we were riding in the Pisten Bully the wind was howling and the snow blowing in total darkness. We knew "The Thing" was out there somewhere!
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| The weather is very nice today +10.4 degF snowing and no wind. This is beach weather for us! |
is surf up too? you sure icked one heck of an adventure!!!
ReplyDeleteNo surf here Andy. McMurdo Sound is very deep and iced over now. But the wind waves can get pretty big.
ReplyDeleteThat first video is creepy!
ReplyDeleteIt does get creep here. On my walk back from Hut Point this afternoon I heard a very odd loud sound and froze. My hairs stood up. Don't know what it was. Must have been the wind.
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