The Beam Team

Four of us were assigned together as the Beam Team, to try to measure the antenna pattern for the Forty Footer, an old radio telescope dish no longer used for cutting edge research. Specifically, we were to look for side lobes that might be affected by the recent construction of a nearby metal roof shed.

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The Forty Footer. One of the team members is shown in the corner, James (Jimmy) Stewart.

     
The rack mounted control and data acquisition equipment used with the Forty Footer.

Robert Morris and James Stewart of the Beam Team, with Blue Bertha between. Robert and James are from Charlotte, North Carolina.

The Minnesota Contingent, Paul Lane and myself. Paul is from St. Paul, Minnesota. Oh yeah: And Blue Bertha.

The Beam Team in the Forty Footer's control room.

The Beam Team's version of "Kilroy was here:" A way of marking our territory. It's a guy thing.

Real Beam Team data as it is being acquired.

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