| Description: | If there is one thing that you can not foresee, it is the weather. These LOFAR High band Antenna (HBA) tiles should have been placed directly in the field. Instead, hundreds of them are waiting in this warehouse for the ground to be unfrozen. Only then can the cables be dug in, and the surface flattened. The surface needs to be flat, so that the multiple beams of the antenna tiles will "look" in the same direction(s) of the sky.
This warehouse is almost full right now, and more space is required. When the weather is fine, and the ground is prepared, these HBA antenna tiles will be placed in the field, in a huge array of multi-tile "stations".
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