Photos of Dish taken 16jun18

26jul18

Links
Main cable names
From the rim road
Under the dish
From AO9

Photos of the dish were taken on 16jun18 using a cannon sx230hs 12mpix digital camera with 14x optical zoom. They were to be compared with the results from the blackmore scanner (taken may18). A tripod was used to hold the camera. Data was taken from

the rim road. Mainly the southern end looking north along some of the main cables.
under the dish. From the bottom of the dish on the southern part of the road. Looking south up toward the edge of the dish

The hope was to see the dish tiedown cables.. checking for slack... but not enough resolution.

From AO9 platform.

Main cable names:

The north, south main cables are spaced every 25 feet. Their names are:

south, center to east

S, SE0
SE01,SE1A,SE1B,SE1C
SE02,SE2A,SE2B,SE2C
SE03,SE3A,SE3B,SE3C
SE04,SE4A,SE4B,SE4C
SE05,SE5A

south, center to west

S,SW0
SW01,SW1A,SW1B,SW1C
SW02,SW2A,SW2B,SW2C
SW03,SW3A,SW3B,SW3C
SW04,SW4A,SW4B,SW4C
SW05,SW5A

and similar labels for the cables on the north edge of the dish.

A picture of the blackmore dish errors with the main cables overlaid (.png)

North is at the top of the picture.

From rim road (southern part looking north)

I took 19 pictures from the rim road. I started on the SE part and looked toward the north along a main cable.
The cable through the center of ao9 is S.
Every 4 panels (east,west) is a new main cable.
The 100 foot opening in the center of the dish is bounded by SW1,SE1

the leftmost 25 feet have a removable cover in place.

Time	Notes
	below moves east to west across south of dish
11-19-06	along SE03 cable missing panel center right damaged panel edges center right
11-30-44	along SE1b cable se1b starts at the foliage in the lower right.
11-39-26	along SW01 cable cable ends at left edge of 100 foot opening in the center of the dish. damaged panel (cable showing) half way down along cable SW0 (next main cable to the right)
11-40-43	between SW0,SW01 cable blowup shows damaged panel. the white line is the east-west cable?.
11-43-26	along SW02 cable (lower right edge of pict). left edge of td8 is SW2A (1 cable to the left)
11-43-45	along SW02 cable blowup SW02 starts at the lower right of pict. left center shows some panel edges damaged when cleaning the dish.
11-44-28	SW02 anchor label. previous 2 picts taken from here.
	go back to south east section
11-49-37	along SE04 cable the black spot in center is a missing panel. It is 1 panel left (west) of SE04. The panels damaged by cleaning are at the lower left edge of pict).
11-51-50	A. damaged panel edges between SE3B and SE3C before the black area
11-51-59	A. blowup damaged panels at A.
11-52-25	B. damaged panels. move a little to the southwest
11-52-32	B. blowup damaged panels at B.
11-52-44	A. blowup
11-52-56	C. blowup. move a little to the right of A.
11-53-13	D. blowup move a little to the right of C.
11-58-51	SE04 Marker. previous 8 picts taken from here.
	move to east edge of the rim road
12-04-40	looking west from east edge of rim road. black spot in center has turned up panel east traffic cone seen toward bottom.
12-05-05	looking west from east edge. blowup

From AO9, 360+ degree spin

Took about 20 pictures. Started looking north, then moved clockwise (North to east), till a complete 360+ deg rotation had been completed
Looking at the highest resolution, the focus could have been better

time	Notes
12-34-54	north td12 cables center of pict. 5Mhz hf dipole traffic cone on north part of dish
12-47-19	north blowup north traffic cone
12-47-40	north blowup further blowup of north traffic cone.
12-35-08	north,NE 5Mhz hf dipole, td12 cables left in pict. distomat 1 missing panel upper right
12-35-28	northeast distomat 1 missing panel upper left between hf 5mhz and 8mhz dipole
12-35-41	northeast 8 Mhz hf dipole
12-36-10	east 8 Mhz hf dipole left in pict distomat 2 missing panel upper center. black strip in upper center has bent up panel. east traffic cone in middle of pict.
12-36-26	east,SE 5Mhz hf dipole right in pict td 4 cables behind dipole black spot (upper right) missing panel.
12-36-57	southeast 5Mhz hf dipole left in pict td 4 cables behind hf dipole black spot upper left, missing panel black area upper center, panels damaged by cleaning.
12-44-25	southeast blowup showing panels bent when washing dish the bent panel edges are at the upper right of back spot. This is not the best angle to see the problem. The rim road pictures have a better angle.
12-37-16	south, SE distomat 3 missing panel at top center of pict
12-38-25	south 8 Mhz hf dipole right in picture
12-39-10	south,SW 8 Mhz hf dipole left in picture ladder peaking out on right distomat 4 missing panel at upper right
12-39-28	southwest 5 Mhz hf dipole with t8 cable, right edge of pict. distomat 4 missing panel upper left. ladder center left of pict
12-40-10	southwest 5 Mhz hf dipole right of pict with td8 cables ladder left edge
12-40-25	west,SW 5 Mhz hf dipole left in pict. td8 cables distomat 5 missing panel upper right
12-41-24	west distomat 5 missing panel upper center. cal dipole antenna off to the right a little.
12-41-38	west,NW 8 Mhz hf dipole right side
12-42-06	northwest 8 Mhz hf dipole left side distomat 6 missing panel upper center
12-42-59	north 5 Mhz hf dipole right edge, td 12 cables north traffic cone
12-44-10	northeast 5 Mhz hf dipole left edge, td12 cables distomat missing panel upper center

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