CAMAC Progress Report

                    Week Ending: September 28, 2001
                               Week: 35


Tom Folkers:
     1. Preparing for trip to Mt. Graham for testing.
     2. Transported the tracker and control computers to the site for 
        three days of testing.
     3. Happy to report that after a day of fiddling with bad cables 
        and inverted bits, we were able to acquire and track sources. 
        A nice picture of the moon, taken with the optical camera 
        while tracking with the new system, can be seen outside 
        Susan's office.
     4. Next week we will investigate and correct several bugs and 
        shortcomings identified in the system during this test 
        session.

Tom Sargent:
     1. Checked over the smt drive software in the servo program in 
        preparation for going to the telescope on the 26th. 
     2. The servo program was able to drive the telescope reasonably 
        well. It has some trouble acquiring objects (tends to 
        oscillate a bit) but once it gets close enough it seems to 
        track OK.  Azimuth has more trouble than elevation.  The 
        automatic encoder reset operation does not work.

Pete Hubbard:
     1. Trip to SMT with new control system for testing.
     2. Office move to room N329.

Dave Ashby:
     1. No Report.