From: <Tasso.Tzioumis_at_email.protected>
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 15:10:00 +1100 (EST)

Congratulations!!!!

Bloody marvelous - best news for a while.

I do not recall if new fibre will be laid. If so, it may help to look what
AARNET3 are laying for the other telescopes. The request-for-tenders is on
their web site at www.aarnet.edu.au.
Equipment tender should be out soon as well.

I think this is a great step for the Mt. Pleasant observatory.

Keep up the good work.
Tasso

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Simon Ellingsen wrote:

>Dear All,
>Good news - the ARC LIEF application to fund the fibre tail from
>Mt Pleasant to the University of Tasmania was successful and has received
>$402K in funds! Thanks to all those involved in writing the application
>and helpping to obtain the matching funds. With a bit of luck by this
>time next year we will be able to do "real-time" fringe checking to hobart
>on a timescale of seconds-minutes rather than many hours as it is with the
>present setup.
>
>Regards
>
>Simon
>--
>Simon Ellingsen : Lecturer in Physics/Radio Astronomy, University of Tasmania
>email : Simon.Ellingsen_at_utas.edu.au
>WWW : http://www-ra.phys.utas.edu.au/~sellings
>Phone : 6226 7588 or 6226 7528 (Work) ; Area Code : +61 3 (International)
>6278 8636 (Home), 6226 2410 (Fax) 03 (Australia)
>

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