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    | • | RF Hardware 
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    |  | – | (original) Copper tuner cooling lines are beginning
    to spring leaks. 
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    |  | Difficult to repair because they’re hot. 
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    | • | High Level RF 
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    |  | – | More or less original. 
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    |  | – | Our highest maintenance item. 
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    |  | – | Will probably last, BUT expensive to maintain. 
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    |  | – | John Reid and Ralph Pasquinelli feel a new solid
    state system would 
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    |  | pay for itself ($5.5M) in about four years. 
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    | • | Low Level RF 
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    |  | – | Many old modules, some without spares, some without
    drawings. 
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    |  | – | An upgrade plan in place. 
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    |  | – | Not expensive, but NEED people. 
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    | • | Personnel!!!! 
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