CARA Telecon Minutes

Date: June 25, 2001
Time: 1:00 PM

Attendance:

BU:
Cornell:
CMU:
FTS:             R. Chamberlin
Northwestern:
R.I.T:
S.A.O.:         W. Walsh, S. Kim
South Pole:     C. Martin, C. Kaminski
Chicago:        J. Carlstrom, S. Meyer, N. Odalen, R. Landsberg, J. Bausch
UCB:            W. Holzapfel
UCSB:           J. Ruhl

Approval of previous minutes:
Minutes from June 11 & June 18, 2001 - approved.

  Agenda Items


News from the Pole:

C. Kaminski reported that the TEG shut down for the season - out of
propane.  MAPO heating system fixed and winterovers are staying warm.

C. Martin stated that Viper, FTS, AST/RO are all working. Tau was at
1.0 for a time during the past week.

FTS - R. Chamberlin commented that he had not seen the data for the
last few days.  He was hopeful that something interesting had been
captured.  It would be useful to R. Chamberlin to know what the 350
micron weather has been.  R. Chamberlin has been trying to get on the
AST/RO computer to view this data and determine what FTS data to
check out first.

The last data that was reviewed was taken after C. Martin made some
changes.  This data showed instrument noise not sky noise.

Question - has Viper pointing been fixed?
Answer - Acbar is running and getting data.

Question - to AST/RO on what they have been observing.
Answer -  492 GHz CI maps of the galactic center.

Liquid Helium Report:

Total of 4000 liters available from most recent report.

Al has been lowering pressure in the 3000 gallon down to 3 PSI, which
should help lower the transfer loss.

Noted by R. Chamberlin   at 6 PSI  Helium has 16% flash loss during trx
                            3 PSI   8% flash loss
R. Chamberlin has tables and source information that he will make
available to the group.

J. Ruhl stated that we are close to making call to figure all this out.

**End of next week telecon with all users to make decision on when to
make transfers.

REU - R. Landsberg

Want to make sure students are there and working.  Want telecon this
week to get students together.

Raytheon Projects meeting scheduled for July 11.

Individuals that should attend:
R. Pernic
R. Loewenstein
T. Stark
J. Peterson
J. Ruhl
S. Meyer
J. Carlstrom