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|KVM | Keyboard, Video, Mouse. A switch box that takes keyboard, video and mouse inputs from multiple PCs and allows the user to switch between them and interact with the PC from a single location. The KVM switches at the sites are networked so that a remote user can connect to a computer at the console level | | |KVM | Keyboard, Video, Mouse. A switch box that takes keyboard, video and mouse inputs from multiple PCs and allows the user to switch between them and interact with the PC from a single location. The KVM switches at the sites are networked so that a remote user can connect to a computer at the console level | | ||
|LCP | Left-hand Circular Polarisation | | |LCP | Left-hand Circular Polarisation | | ||
+ | |LNA | Low Noise Amplifier| | ||
|Mark5 | Data recording equipment. Takes digitised data from the DBBC and records it to one of two possible disk modules | | |Mark5 | Data recording equipment. Takes digitised data from the DBBC and records it to one of two possible disk modules | | ||
|PCFS | PC Field System. Used extensively throughout geodetic VLBI observatories, a PC running the Field System software to control and monitor the antenna, recorder, sampler etc. The central computer for operating the observatory | | |PCFS | PC Field System. Used extensively throughout geodetic VLBI observatories, a PC running the Field System software to control and monitor the antenna, recorder, sampler etc. The central computer for operating the observatory | |