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    • Introduction
    • Making Fiber Cables
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    • WIDAR Cabinets
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    • WIDAR Power Systems
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  • Ka-Band Receiver
  • VLBA Control Room
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WIDAR Cabinets
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Astronomer Rick Perley, Brent Carlson, an engineer from the National Research Council of Canada, and NRAO scientist Michael Rupen look inside one of the cabinets of the new WIDAR Correlator at the Very Large Array. (WIDAR is an acronym of Wideband Interferometric Digital ARchitecture.)