AMiBA Engineering Telecon Minutes
3, Jan. 2002

Chair: K.Y. Lo
Participants: M.Kesteven (Sydney), H.Wang, T.D. Chiueh,
H.C. Lu, C.T. Li, Y. J. Hwang, H.M. Jiang, W. Ho, C.H. Lien (Taipei)

Summary

Prototype Mount:
Philippe has settled all technical details with VIOLA, VIOLA will
start working right after new year holidays.

Hexapod Mount:
Bob and Philippe had a detail discussion with Vertex on the technical issues
by phone in 20, Dec. Vertex will assemble the study report, performance
specification, list of deliverables, acceptance tests, etc.onto a single documents
by 15, Jan.

Correlator:
1.Lag Correlator are still at rework. S/N 002- needs capacitors replace on five on the channels.
Capacitors were damaged when delay line was replaced. S/N001- needs to have interconnects
from delay line connected. Jeff Rapadas will try to have these done by Friday.
2. Derek Kubo has prepared some questions and comments on AMiBA analogue correlator and
asked Jeff to answer.

60cm dish:
We have three quotes from CMA, Quinstar and Milliflect, Philippe will follow up to clarify technical details
with them. Philippe should update FEA ASAP so that Ted and West can follow up to update drawings.
Bob should inform Philippe about the details of design change on 30cm and 60cm dishes according the
experience in prototype.

New members:
1.PostDr Richard C.T. Li is joining AMiBA team since yesterday, he graduated
from Physical Department of University of Virginia, majoring in HTC super conductor receiver.
He has two years work experiences in micro-wave industry. He will be trained to work on correlator part.
2. Two new assistants Janne Wang and Vichy Liao join administration team to replace Jean Chang
and Albert Hsu from beginning of this year.

Action items:

1. All responsible person/ As for site visit of 1, Feb., annual report 2001, work plan 2002
and posters should be prepared and submitted before the following dead lines:
- annual report: draft/12, Jan & formal/21,Jan.
- work plan: draft/13, Jan & formal/22, Jan
- poster: 21, Jan

2. Mike/Honmin/ As for the control software, Mike & Honmin will get together to work out something
required for site visit.

3. Paul /Philippe/ Bob Paul will ask Philippe to contact Quinstar to check whether their quote is
line with our technical requirements.

4.Leo / Leo will track down the delivery status of IF Amplifier with vendor.

5. Huei/ Huei will contact TRW to figure out how to open the model.

6. Mike/ Mike will help Huei to trace whether Russell received the new chip layout of GaAs HEMT.

7. Fred/Mike Fred will talk to Mike about some points of prototype test plan by offline.

Next meeting: Thursday, 10, Jan., 2002 at 8:30AM Taipei time.