Work Continues

A week or so ago, I mentioned setting up a weather monitor at the site (click here to view its output).  This is a photo of the station itself.  
Several days ago, the major shipment which I had been alluding to arrived in San Pedro.  It contained the MBAC receiver and the associated electronics to make it work.  Here is the shipment itself on the back of the truck stopped at ALMA while the driver took a quick medical exam.  The drive up the mountain took several hours, between the medical clearances and the fact that the truck couldn't go very fast up the steep slope.  

Its worth noting that, in general, trucks have a terrible time with the mountains here.  On the Paso Jama road, which leads from San Pedro to Argentina, we have observed the same truck broken down at the side of the road for two or three days.  In another instance, a truck trailer was parked in the middle of the road, sans truck, for the entire weekend.  
Here is Dan working on some soldering in the mid-evening a few nights ago.  Note the computer giving the weather station readout.  We've typically been on the mountain from around 10:30 until about 7.  

Update: At around 11PM tonight, Lyman Page (Princeton), the principle investigator of ACT, arrived in San Pedro.