Since AIT is a bit out of the city (about an hour drive from our hotel), our host couldn’t manage to arrange a car to shuttle us back and forth. Thus we were told to take a taxi to AIT. With the help of the hotel boys, we got a meter taxi. Hummm! Meter taxi? Yes! The taxi has meter on it but does not provide a receipt. However, we finally figure out some way to get a receipt. When we get at the AIT compound, our host welcomed us and directed us to the room where our magnetometer was stored.
AIT sponsor countries' flag
AIT Logos!
Searching home for our sensor!
What was next? O! boy! It was the
hardest thing to get a quite spot for our sensor. The place what our host
dreamed of is separated by a river from the building and there was no way to get
the cable cross the river. We did search different area of the institute if
there is any remote and quite area, but found none. There was one reasonable
nice location which is close to the library. I took Dr Nitin with me to the library
if they can allow us to put our electronics there, but we were not welcomed at
all. The whole morning passed just by searching sites. Finally, after lunch, we
laid the down along the bridge and see how far we can take the sensor to the
site that our host dreamed of, and found reasonable distance which is away the pedestrian
and bicycle population area. However, the professor at the closest side of the
building refused to let us put one simple table in his office. Instead we were
given the next room, which we had to pull the sensor closer to the bicycle and pedestrian
area. One major problem we investigated, there is a huge periodical current
coming that disturb the Z-component of the geomagnetic field. We knew this
could not be a good site to leave our sensor, thus while I was doing further diplomacy,
Dan and Kathryn found out that this big unknown current is coming from the
river which I still have no idea how.
This where we put the electronics for overnight!
Look the mysterious current on Z-component of our data!
The cable had to pass on top of this bridge along with the power line!!
Almost at the end of the day, Dr Nitin
remembered one possible site, the internet laboratory. We rushed there and it
was in deed reasonably quite spot, however, we have to get permission from the
head of the lab who is also the vice president of the entire AIT. However, she
was nowhere to be found. Finally, we decided to leave our instrument for
overnight and see how the data looks like, in the meantime Dr Nitin look for
the internet laboratory head. He tried to reach her on phone but her phone was
switched off. Finally, we done for the day and walked to the van that Dr Nitin
arranged for the entire group to go for dinner; and while we were waiting at
the van for the group to join, the lady called back and told Dr Nitin that we
can use one of the rooms in her lab. Later Dr Nitin told us the good news. That
was really good news, for a while at least. We then went to one of the best Indian
restaurants in Bangkok, which we had amazingly delicious dinner. In general,
Thursday is gone without any major achievement, let see what will happen
tomorrow.
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