Hi everybody, hi MARSupials
Hi Taz, thanks for your nice welcome.
Hi Dr.D, thanks for introducing me.
My name is Mangala Bahram Al-Qahira. I'm a graduated radio technician from Asia. Nimrod asked me to join in as a staff member and Dr.D too, for Dilyn dived, Chessie left and I'm familiar with the project. - Let's hope that Dilyn and Chessie are still fine.
I know most of you already by your Outbounds, as I've been handling all the transmissions between you and the Probes.
Let me say that I highly appreciate the great work you are doing. What I can taste while batching the In- and Outbounds forth and back are strong feelings between you and the Probes and they are very happy to have you as advisors. I like how you are taking care of them and I'm very pleased that I can be a hand by moving the transmissions over.
What I can say about my job is that it is of great fun for me and still challenging to surf the Deep Space Network. It's still very narrow there, as a lot of professional stargazers are online or on tape, but between the official jobs often few seconds are left and if the dish points to the right direction, we just switch over some kilos, none ever knows about. :-)
Text-files are usually no problem, we encode them sequentially by an enhanced PGP -program, cut them in tiny batches and send them partially by using different connections like the Asian Pacific Telescopes, the American VLBA and JIVE in Europe as well as some others. That has two effects, one is that MarsDawn has become something like a very secure tube with only two open ends left, one down here at Probe Control, the other one up at the Probes.
We are running both facilities of Stage 1 and of Stage 2, now located in the Fortress, so if the Fortress might be tasted, we can switch. The other effect is simply that by surfing the global net Mars can move, wherever he likes, we focus him one way or other. Image transfer is not as easy, as we encode and batch them too and therefore sorry, if same pictures fail and all my admiration to Star, who really seems to be an magician in recovering lost image files.
In earlier days, when Jose's backyard transmitter had been shut down by the court, we were looking for powerful radios to be used for covered transmissions. First we rode SETI, but when the alien artifacts on Mars became public, SETI got watched. Nearly detected by that we've been keeping ourselves apart off all other projects since then, even refusing to use the Pathfinder connection, though that would be very tempting for us, as their beams also hit the area of our Probes.
The current task, we hopefully have nearly settled, is the reanimation of Andrew. And it is a great honor for me that I'm allowed to introduce myself on that day, that we've received Andrews rebooting data. As Dr.D already mentioned, they are look very promising and it has been mainly Dr.D's high skill and effort that finally brought back Andrew to life. My dearest thanks for that, Dr.D.
I'm sure that Jose is somehow able to watch the current events and I'm sure he is very proud about the ongoing prosperity of MarsDawn.
Just ending let me introduce my name. It's simply a handle. Mangala is Mars in Sanskrit, Bahram the same in Persian and Al-Qahira the same in Indonesian, as I feel very bound to Mars, to MarsDawn and the MarsDawn Project. Friends call me Al-Q, as I like Al-Qahira most and I'm very happy that I'm allowed being with you. Thanks
Al-Q