(1) You've gone back home to mom and dad for a summer of lazing around, or
(2) You have to spend your summer working full time in a hot, sweaty factory.
Unfortunately, I fit into the second category. So I'm sure you'll understand why this entry is a few days late.
Last Friday, our team made the first real significant advance in the project. Armed with tape measures and screwdrivers, we built the antenna for our primary station! And what a beautiful antenna it is! Fourteen feet long, 10 dB of gain, with circular polarization. It was a beast of an antenna to assemble, but well worth it. We assembled it in room N214, and ended up having to take it up to the roof in three sections.
When all was said and done, it took about seven hours to assemble the antenna, clean the junk off the roof of the N building, take up our antenna, and mount the antenna stand to a pair of four by fours. And those bags? Thirty kilograms each. That antenna's not going anywhere. By the end of it, we were all filthy and smelly, but it was an awesome experience.
In the middle, in the blue hat, is Mr. Kelly Gray. Many thanks to him for his help!
