March 1999 Spares database completed and provided to Bill Porter for projecting an overall spares budget. Review of Servo system documentation completed. Started discussions on maintaining the GBT while Operating. A draft of the GBT Site Access was completed and circulated for comments. Started work on developing a maintenance concept which addresses maintenance scheduling and downtime.
Work continues on a detailed list of all operations activities to support commissioning.
A preliminary budget for full time Operations of the GBT was completed in April. May 1999 Completed review of a preliminary lubrication and maintenance schedule from Comsat. Based on the incompleteness of Comsat's maintenance schedule, a draft maintenance schedule cannot be completed. Instead work on a maintenance concept document continues. Physical identification of all phone and intercom locations continues.