Wednesday
27th January
From
Daniel Marlay.....
Well
today saw the final cleaning up of the AASTO in preparation
for my departure tomorrow. I've tidied the place up (vacuumed
it all as well) in the hope that it may be left in a decent
condition when Ron Rainbow leaves. I have completed the documentation
of he SODAR installation and testing, and left copies of this
in the AASTO. Charlie Kaminski has been given a copy of my
instructions for using the SODAR, along with a bit of a demonstration
by me. I've ascertained that the computer doesn't put me over
the 70 pound luggage limit, and so there should be no problems
bringing that back (although the shift of gear into my hand
carry has made it a bit of a hand-only-just-carry).
The
AASTO temperature was a toasty 33 degrees when I opened it
up today. I had a bit of a sniff around with the freon meter,
and it registered freon around the big radiator valves and
near the tank. After opening the windows to get the air circulating
a bit, the freon meter failed to register any freon around
the pipes and tank. It may be that a small amount, sufficient
to be detected by the meter, escapes and stays around the
tubes when the windows are closed, But disperses quickly once
even a small through flow of air is established. I've closed
the AASTO up for today, but I will check it again tomorrow
before I leave.
Michael Burtons wallet was found in the computer room, and
will be flying the secure skies via Dan Air back to him in
McMurdo. It is just a little worrying that Mike, who left
a few days before me, will still be in McMurdo when I arrive
there. Hopefully I won't end up having to stay too long at
Mactown.
My flight out of here leaves in about an hour, so time to
give the final wrap up on the AASTO. I went out and gave it
a brief checkover this morning. Charlie opened the valves
on the Radiator a bit yesterday, and so the place is cooler
now, about 25 degrees Celsius. I did another quick check around
with the freon sniffer to see whether the leak that I detected
when I first entered the AASTO yesterday had developed again
today. The answer was that it hadn't, I wasn't able to find
any traces of freon using the hand held freon meter.
I've
left John Davis with a copy of the net2phone software, and
it looks like we have another winter over friend there. That's
good, it's good to have winter over friends.
Well
that's about it, It's going to be a bit of a pity to leave
this place, but we're finished here and it's time to go. See
you guys
back in Sydney in a few days time.
Regards
Daniel Marlay
UNSW / CARA / JACARA / AASTO person
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