In the past week we had a very significant power outage caused by a large snow/ice storm. The outage lasted from Saturday Nov 23 until Tuesday Nov 26. The next day was spent getting all of our subsystems back up and checked. Thankfully no permanent damage was found to the facility but this has put us about 3 days behind schedule for all activities.

Since the last blog posting we have gotten a start on a number of projects high up on the tracker including: mounting the lower X work platform and handrails, modification of the lower and upper X screw weldments, welding on the lower X cable tray brackets, positioning of the lower and upper X screw mount weldments.

This week we will be welding on the upper hex weldments and installing the DAS-box weldments. When the JLG manlift is not in use by the welding team the electrical team will be installing the cable trays up the side of the structure or rearranging the azimuth cable wrap.

We also have Weathers Electric and Veliz Construction on site setting up power to the lower electrical room and cutting slots in the dome floor for the additional glycol, power, nitrogen and liquid nitrogen lines.

A very busy week….. Just in time for our Board of Directors meeting this weekend.