From: Ken Hudnut Date: 25 Nov 1994 11:16:30 Subject: [SCIGN-0024] LA City Offers to Build a Monument ****************************************************************************** SCIGN Electronic Mail Fri Nov 25 11:16:30 PST 1994 Message Number 0024 ****************************************************************************** Author: Ken Hudnut Subject: LA City Offers to Build a Monument Bob Packard from the City of Los Angeles has offered to monument a site as a test, in support of continuous GPS monitoring in the LA Dense Array. He contacted the person in charge of building street light posts, and the monument design he is interested in building for us would be a modification of that design. Essentially, a large poured concrete base (~5-10 cu. yards of concrete, going down about 2-3 meters) with a post protruding above ground by several meters. If members of our group are interested in having the City build such a monument, perhaps at one of the sites JPL has already permitted, the City would build the monument with a vault-type enclosure, and our obligation would be to provide power/phone to the vault and then run a receiver as a test of that monuments' stability. It seems to me that this presents an opportunity for us to influence design of an urban-environment monument that could be built by the City in the future (in case the 250- station initiative is funded) and to test a monument design that has potential to be tamper resistant and be stable (if we are able to influence the design to our liking). [Mailed From: Ken Hudnut ]