Coming Up for Air

["Thomas Droege" <tdroege2@earthlink.net>]

I need to occasionally come up for air and contact the group.  My stack of
"good" boards now stands at about 11.

I just spent about 5 hours tracking down a problem on one board.  Sigh! 
But soon I will have enough fixed that there will be plenty of spares.  I
have had to remember how to program Stamps and PROMs.  It always takes a
day or so to find everything and get the old programs running.  There seems
to be something about programming stamps that requires the right hex, and I
don't mean numeric format.  

All this because I remember that I have two more CDs of data that is not
yet in the data base.  It is always encouraging when someone digs out 3
measurements that differ by 0.01 mag.  At least some of the measurements
are OK.  Michael^2 if I don't send the remaining data soon remind.me. 

I finally got the right sized "O" ring material from Small Parts.  It seems
that I am the only one who ever complained when they sent me 0.125 material
when I ordered it.  It seems that they say right in their catalog that the
nominal 0.125 material is actually 0.137.  So I complained that the 0.125
material that they sent me was measured as 0.125.   It is their fault that
they labeled it as such.  But now I have it and can put together more
cameras. 

My goal is to have everything working perfectly by the time the snow melts
off the roof and we have a few days where we can work.  March, I hope.  

Tom Droege 


Tom  Droege Jennifer Malpass
tdroege2@earthlink.net