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Preparation visit before Run6

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Mon 03/06

Left Grenoble by car in the morning. Andrea, Alain, Alessandro. Reached the telescope at 20h30.

Tue 04/06

During the maintenance craned up again NIKA, installed. Warm impedance test: 20mbar/min at 3 bar

Start cooling down at 13h30.

Test with VNA at 300K:

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figures: VNA scans at 300K (0-8GHz). Left: 1mm array; right: 2mm array.

Installed the electronics,

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figures: NIKA installed again