1. ALFA Installation & Status Steve Torchinsky GALFA Meet3, Arecibo August 29, 2004

2. Sky test in Australia March 16, 2004

3. Cold test in Australia March 16, 2004

4. Cold load in Australia March 16, 2004

5. Packing up in Australia March 19, 2004

6. Arrival at Arecibo April 1, 2004

7. Taking Possesion April 1, 2004

8. Pre-installation testing April 5, 2004

9. Inside ALFA April 5, 2004

10. Practice Run April 13, 2004

11. Day before installation April 20, 2004

12. Waiting to go April 20, 2004

13. At the bottom of the bowl April 21, 2004

14. Liftoff! April 21, 2004

15. ALFA soars April 21, 2004

16. Approaching the Dome April 21, 2004

17. Entering the Dome April 21, 2004

18. Into the rotary floor April 21, 2004

19. ALFA installed April 21, 2004

20. 7 beams April 21, 2004

21. First Light April 24, 2004

22. ALFA and OH May 11, 2004 1665/1667 OH Lines observed from Comet 2001 Q4 (NEAT) using ALFA (more later from Ellen)

23. Hiccup #1 June, 2004 Motor encoder failure

24. Precursor: PALFA August 1, 2004

25. First new ALFA pulsar August 1, 2004

26. Hiccup #1: resolved August, 2004 Motor replaced

27. No RFI from motor August 26, 2004 Cabinet door closedCabinet door open Keep an eye out for harmonics of 13.33MHz (more later from Desh)

28. Hiccup #2 August, 2004 Short circuit to LNA Beam 0A Photo: April 5, 2004

29. Hiccup #2: continues… August 28, 2004

30. EALFA Drift Precursor August 22, 2004 Detects galaxies! Giovanelli, Hoffman, Haynes, Catinella, Momjian, Muller, Kent, et al

31. Gain, SEFD, Tsys July 20, 2004(more later from Desh)

32. ALFA today August 28, 2004 Pulsar Precursor ongoing Extragalactic Drift precursor on going GALFA precursor starts Friday Array rotation is enabled (parallactic angle tracking, this week) Motor electronics well shielded Center beam, pol-A is still offline