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Repair trip to the site of the Kapuskasing radar (Northern Ontario)

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Over a week in late October, 2026 Kevin and Mike visited the Kap radar to make various repairs and prepare the site for the winter. The photo shows Kevin completing the installation of a new Linux computer. The display of the adjacent QNX computer shows an extensive band of groundscatter with some distant 1 1/2 hop ionospheric scatter. A secondary purpose of the trip was to assess the readiness of the site for conversion to the USRP-based system that has been installed at the Blackstone and Goose Bay radar sites.