At first, as soon as Hong Tao heard the nature of this unit, he muttered in his heart, "What a high-ranking industry, and people who have never been in contact with this aspect will instinctively think of those scientists who wear dust-proof clothing and hold all kinds of precision instruments working like robots in the assembly workshop." The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info either an engineer who stares at the monitoring screen in the launch command center and sets various parameters on the equipment.

Hong Tao asked himself if he really didn't have that ability, even if people dared to ask for it, he didn't dare to go, in case a certain parameter was wrong, the satellite was planted from the sky, not to mention smashing people, smashing flowers and plants is not good, this job responsibility is too great, and it is estimated that you will have nightmares when you sleep. But that classmate is well-intentioned, and he has already said hello to his acquaintances in the satellite company, and I'm afraid it's not appropriate to slip away without showing up, it's too hurtful to do this, who will dare to help you in the future. So Hong Tao had the intention of opening his eyes, and walked into the satellite company located in the Liuliqiao Galaxy Building.

The interviewer for himself was an acquaintance of the classmate, who was also the director of the operation department of the satellite company, a middle-aged man of medium height, not fat or thin, and always with a smile on his face, he introduced himself as Wu Daocheng. The interview process was very simple, the director Wu first looked at Hong Tao's resume and graduation certificate, and then probably asked Hong Tao's family situation and political background, and without even mentioning the word satellite, he began to introduce the company's employment positions and salary and benefits to Hong Tao.

During the probationary period of one month, the salary is 500 yuan, and after the regularization, he will be given five social insurances and one housing fund, a salary of more than 900 yuan, and lunch will be provided free of charge. At that time, it was the end of 1996, and most of his college classmates had been working in Shougang for almost two years, and the monthly salary and bonus were only more than 700 yuan.

Sure enough, this Director Wu spoke a big gasp, and what he said earlier was all advantages, leaving the disadvantages behind. This working time is very special, there is no holiday rest, 36 hours a week in a row, and the place of work is not in the company's station, but in Yungang, the western suburb of BJ!

Even if Hong Tao is too far to work at Liuliqiao, he has to take Metro Line 2 and then Line 1 every day, and he has to take a few bus stops after arriving at the princess's tomb, which takes at least an hour and a half. Yungang! Nanima is almost at Mentougou, or in the big ravine, and I can't set off against the rising sun and arrive at the sunset!

Thirty-six hours a week is fine. For Hong Tao, this condition is not only not negative, but also very much to his liking. If only I could work more than two months a year in a row, and then I didn't have to go to work for more than nine months. Time is a thing, the more fragmented it is, the more you can't help it, you will waste a lot of time commuting to and from work every day, and all of it will be gathered together, but it will make the time a whole block, and you can do whatever you want.

As for saying that there are no holidays or anything, Hong Tao doesn't care even more. I work for a day and a half a week, and I take weekends off, and I am alone at home, and I am most afraid of the holidays.

"There are two people per shift, and the unit is assigned a car, which can drive home by itself, and the unit bears the fuel ticket and car repair costs for the commute journey. Don't look at this Director Wu's smiling and harmless appearance, but his ability to observe words and expressions is not small, as soon as Hong Tao grinned, he added another one.

"I don't have a car!" Hong Tao is really a little tempted, ninety-six years! I can have a car that is half at my disposal, even if it is a 212 jeep. In this era, there are not many private cars, but there are not many, and it is much more fashionable to drive to and from work?

"There is a driving school across the road, you can study part-time, and the registration fee is reimbursed by the unit. Director Wu's smile deepened.

In the end, Hong Tao didn't resist this huge temptation, and didn't even ask carefully what the specific job was, so he vaguely agreed to come to work in two days. This Director Wu really didn't deceive people, he took him to the driving school across the road to register on the first day of work, and it was a fast class, with a registration fee of more than 3,000 yuan.

To put it simply, the nature of the work of this satellite company is very special, especially the operation department where Hong Tao is located, and the nature of the work is even more special. This work is not to sit on duty, but to carry out according to the 36 hours of work per week, two people in a shift, and the specific work is to keep an eye on the equipment of the ground transmitting station to ensure that the beam of the microwave power amplifier is normally sent to the transmitting antenna after passing through the wave guide tube, and is transmitted to the receiver of the satellite at a suitable angle.

This requires the ground duty personnel to be familiar with the basic parameters of the microwave transmission equipment, not only to record every two hours, but also to manually adjust the transmission power of the microwave amplifier in abnormal weather, so as to offset the consumption of microwaves by water vapor, raindrops, ice and snow in the atmosphere.

The satellite thing has no ability to increase the power, it can only forward, to put it bluntly, it is a mirror, the power you hit is large, the power it forwards is correspondingly large, the power you transmit is insufficient, and the signal it forwards is weak.

Once the monitoring signal power is found to be too low, the transmit power has to be manually increased. There are several formulas that can be calculated, adding less is useless, adding more microwave tube in the microwave amplifier will have a large loss. That thing is expensive, it can't be produced in China, and it has to be imported from the United States and Germany, which is not cheap, and one piece is tens of thousands of dollars. The service life of the six microwave tubes in the three backup microwave amplifiers is calculated by hours, and their life curves are not linear, once they exceed the normal value, they will plummet immediately. One hour of high-power transmission is equivalent to more than ten times the working life of the transmitter tube under standard power.

At this time, it is necessary to rely on the ground station duty personnel to control this degree, not only can not let the transmission signal be too weak, but also have to save the use of microwave tubes as much as possible, and the service life of dozens of hours is gone. This is probably one of the reasons why the ground station duty personnel are well treated, if you buckle the rope all day long, the duty staff will be depressed, maybe hundreds of thousands of dollars will be lost. Although there is a duty record, it is still signed by two people to confirm, but this kind of thing is unavoidable.

In addition to increasing the transmitting power, there is also a more cost-effective way, which is to adjust the angle of the transmitting antenna to align with the receiver of the satellite. The more accurate the angle, the higher the power reception, usually not too extreme weather, this method can make up for the power consumption, without increasing the transmission power of the microwave amplifier.

However, this program is also difficult to execute, and once the antenna angle is turned off, the signal will be lost instantly. It's not much just the broadcast of the TV signal, the big deal is that the TV screen suddenly stops, or the screen goes blank for a while. But the data transmission of the stock market can't stand this, those data are very important things, and there is still a time limit.

What's even more terrifying is that there is some major political event at the national level, such as important leaders speaking on certain important days. These television signals were to be broadcast to the whole world, and so many think tanks and pens around the leaders wasted half a month to produce a few minutes of speeches, and every word had its own important meaning. This is not a matter of a mistake in the work, this is a standard political incident, starting from the ministry, and even the minister has to be criticized.

It's useless to just say that it is important, after Hong Tao visited the station for the first time, he immediately understood why such a small company with a bad appearance still needs a political trial. This ground station was actually built in a large military camp, and the entire hill was flattened, and from the foot of the mountain to the gate to the working face of the satellite station, it had to pass through three walls and four posts. The people standing guard were not armed policemen, they were all soldiers with loaded guns and live ammunition leading the big wolf dogs.