Summer on the Ice
- December 2010
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Here is the list of entries for Summer on the Ice based on the selected criteria.
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Happy Camper
Dec 30, 2010 08:48:23 PM | Kevin McCarthy
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- Alvin and I took Field Safety Training Program's two day Snowcraft I (also known as Happy Camper here) which is a basic requirement for anyone in USAP who is going to one of the remote field camps or whose job may get them in a situation where they could be stranded. It is a course in basic risk management and survival techniques, spent almost entirely outside on the ice shelf, including an overnight.
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We wear our sunglasses at night...
Dec 14, 2010 03:18:59 PM | Kevin McCarthy
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- We are done with the riskiest part of the project—opening the radome and destacking/restacking the antenna. My initial optimism at the end of the last post was crushed by the weather here.
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Weather Delays
Dec 04, 2010 11:50:40 PM | Kevin McCarthy
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- It is December 4th, and we are three days late starting the uncapping of the radome. As the wind requirements are 12 mph or less, a delay is not unexpected. The preparation of the antenna went almost without a hitch. The old antenna electronics and cabling were removed as well as the wave guide that was in the way of the lift points on the antenna reflector.
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A Small Town (in Antarctica)
Dec 01, 2010 03:59:27 PM | Kevin McCarthy
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- I grew up in Lanham MD, outside the Beltway of DC. While I’ve lived in NC and FL, I’ve never lived in a small town before. I’d visited McMurdo last January for ten days, but now that I have been here for almost two weeks, I can say I live in a small town.
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