CAMAC Progress Report

                    Week Ending: February 16, 2001
                                Week: 3

Tom Folkers:
     1. Continued researching and specifying hardware requirements  
        for the new various systems.
     2. Delivered purchase orders for rack mounted chassis with 
        displays.
     3. Delivered purchase orders for DSP hardware.

Tom Sargent:
     1. Written a data synthesizing program to produce encoder output 
        with known amounts of offset and phase error.  I have yet to 
        add some noise to it.
     2. Wrote a program to determine offset errors (and soon amplitude 
        and phase errors) in the data which is produced by the data 
        synthesizer program.   This allows studying some different 
        computational methods.
     3. Wrote an RA-Dec to Alt-Az converter and used it to study rates 
        of change of altitude and azimuth near the zenith under normal 
        sidereal tracking conditions.
     4. Did a couple hours work in support of purchasing the various 
        computer systems.


Pete Hubbard:
     1. Wiring MPI model 6000 amplifier encoder board to enable 
        testing of Heidenhain ROR456 encoder.
     2. Mounting encoder and small DC motor with a 485 to 1 gear 
        reduction drive on an optical breadboard plate.
     3. Testing encoder for ultra slow speed operation.