arecibo

[totient]

Folks are posting pics of themselves at Arecibo. I have some of those, but I also have this:


That's a circuit board I laid out. You can see my signature at the bottom right of the board, next to the 10-pin IDC connector. 30 copies of it were used in the Arecibo Search for Early Hydrogen for a few years in the late 90s. I didn't stay in radio astronomy long after that, but I'm still saddened by the news yesterday that they're going to have to take it down.

Comments

[minoanmiss]

Thank you for your contributions to science and knowledge.

[jasra]

That's so awesome!

[gilana]

That is really cool.

[vettecat]

Sad news but that is very cool, thanks for sharing.

[muffyjo]

One of my work partners worked there ages ago and expressed a great deal of frustration with the lack of desire to rescue it sooner.

I am sorry I never made it there while it was working. It was on my bucket list.