Chapter 005: The Saboteur
According to Director Wu, oh, by the way, this Director Wu is Wu Daocheng who interviewed Hong Tao, and everyone in the unit referred to him as Director Wu, and Hong Tao also called him along. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć He said that this was originally a rocket engine experimental base of the Ministry of Aerospace, and it was not only a secret unit, but also a dangerous unit. Because the smoke from the rocket engine is highly toxic, although it has been many years since the experiment was stopped, the nearby fruit trees still do not bear fruit normally, and the apples that produce are the size of sand fruits, and they are not delicious to eat. That's all because the land here has been polluted with fuel from rocket engines.
In the mid-to-late eighties, with the normalization of diplomatic relations between China and the United States, a large number of imported equipment was shipped in, including large-caliber antennas and microwave amplifiers. When Nixon visited China, he also brought a satellite antenna with a diameter of 24 meters, which was installed here, so it gradually became a satellite ground station complex, not only civilian, but also military, and even the ground remote sensing antenna when the rocket was launched was also here, but it was not in the same yard, and it could be seen standing on the antenna frame of the satellite company.
Mysterious and exciting, this is how Hong Tao felt when he first got on the station, he kind of liked this work, or his freshness came up again. As long as it is something he likes, he learns it very quickly, which is why his father has always encouraged him to study hard and engage in academic research in the future. According to his father, a neurotic IQ like Hong Tao is most suitable for specializing in a specific project, and those research topics are not very effective by hard work alone, so they need this kind of sudden feeling of convulsions, and I can't tell if I will encounter it once.
It's a pity that Hong Tao knows his strengths and weaknesses better than his father, and his IQ is not low, but he lacks a very critical quality, that is, patience. I am a very impatient, persistent person, and I don't have any firm beliefs, once a person lacks this thing, let alone being a scientist, it is not easy to get a good start early. You can't say that you will change to a new project as soon as your interest passes, unless the Chinese Academy of Sciences is opened by your own family, and the prime minister has to be your uncle.
However, his nerve-like intelligence is very useful in some small things, and during the pre-job training, he learned faster than the other two applicants, which is the reason for his excellent radio knowledge, as well as his own strong understanding ability. Anyway, those two are still studying hard in Liuliqiao's company every day, and he has already passed the practical exam and can officially be on duty. And he didn't delay learning to drive, and on the first day of the official station duty, he drove with Director Wu.
If you want to say that people in this kind of large ministries and commissions are bold and don't have a car book themselves, Director Wu dares to let himself drive, not only is he not afraid, but he also enlightens himself and says: The traffic police of vehicles with operating certificates issued by the Ministry of Aerospace and CCTV generally do not stop, this is a special pass, which is to ensure the normal operation of the satellite ground station. As long as you don't hit people, you don't have to stop for small accidents, the other party just finds the license plate, and you can only negotiate with the public security department of the Ministry of Aerospace.
Hong Tao likes this kind of privilege, as an ordinary person, he usually scolds privileged people, but the privilege suddenly fell on his head, even if it doesn't belong to him, just rubbing a little side, his heart is also beautiful. The right thing is so tempting, and it is even more tempting after touching it, otherwise there would not be so many people who go forward to chase after him, abandon their families and careers, and disregard their lives.
The courtyard belonging to the satellite company is quite large, and a cauldron with a diameter of 24 meters is poked in the middle of the yard, and under the cauldron is the equipment room. It's warm in winter and cool in summer, but don't go in, and once you enter the house, you can't hear anything in your ears. The sound of three microwave amplifiers and three five-horse air conditioners is like 100 million mung bean flies. But I can't help but enter, every two hours, the staff on duty have to run in with the work log, and record dozens of parameters carefully, and it will definitely not be done in half an hour. If some parameters are abnormal, you have to use the internal phone to compare with the monitoring equipment in the duty room, and don't want to leave if you don't understand the parameters.
After returning to the duty room, there are a lot of things, recording the parameters of the monitoring equipment every hour, and staring at more than 30 large TVs from time to time to observe the actual performance of the received signal. Once there are snowflakes and screens, you have to contact the relevant departments of the TV station immediately to find the cause of the problem and solve it in time.
The most fucked up thing is the uninterruptible power supply in the room next door to the dormitory, the volume of four large wardrobes, which is specially prepared for the monitoring equipment in the duty room, which can last for fourteen hours. The power supply between the equipment is three different power grids, and as long as BJ City is not a total power outage, it will be fine. As long as these uninterruptible power supplies are turned on, they will emit low-frequency noise, this kind of sound usually doesn't seem to be audible, but don't lie down, as soon as you close your eyes, there will be a buzzing whisper in your ears, everyone who is on duty here, all hate this sound, you really can't sleep.
This is also the fundamental reason why a semi-secret unit under a large ministry and commission wants to recruit operation personnel from the society, doing this work is easy to get nervous disorders, and several old workers have a nervous breakdown and refuse to go to the station on duty again. They are all officially established by the Ministry of Astronautics, and everyone in the family is in the ministry, so there is no way to force them to be on duty. But it's much easier for social recruitment, you don't do it, someone else does it, and the procedures are not so troublesome. And this low-frequency damage is slow, and you won't feel it at all if you don't do it for a few years. From this point, they have violated labor laws without prior notice of these potential hazards. But in the 90s, the labor law was not so sound, and even if you wanted to, you had nowhere to sue.
In addition to these, there is also a more difficult and dangerous job in winter, that is, going to the antenna to clear the snow. If there is snow on the antenna, it will affect the transmission power, and at this time, the antenna cannot be erected to let the snow fall by itself, so you have to manually hold a long broom, tie a safety rope, and drill along the maintenance channel to the antenna parabola to sweep manually.
In the cold winter weather, facing the biting northwest wind, climbing on the antenna plane with a smooth angle of dozens of degrees, and having to clear the snow, this taste is enough just to ponder and ponder. And you can't get too close to the middle of the antenna, where the microwave radiation is very strong, just like the microwave oven, which is very damaging to the human body. I still have to wear dozens of pounds of protective clothing, and I can't climb up even if my physical fitness is a little worse, let alone climb and clear the snow.
But in Hong Tao's eyes, these hardships don't seem to be nothing. Since he was a child, he has had the ability to make sounds he doesn't like to hear go in and out of his left ear and out of his right ear, plus he has worked as a tuner for several years, so he has a strong ability to adapt to noise. Next to him, Di Qu was still full of food and sleep, and he didn't care. And he also invented a way to avoid the low-frequency noise of the uninterruptible power supply, that is, to move the bed to the duty room to sleep, because the two rooms are separated, the low-frequency noise in the duty room can hardly be heard, and you can sleep peacefully.
Is it that no one else has thought of such a simple solution? I must have thought of it, but no one has dared to do it. Because there are regulations in the duty room, you can't smoke, you can't stay, and you can't open the door for a long time, which is to ensure the cleanliness of the air in the duty room, so as not to affect the more expensive imported monitoring equipment. For those employees who follow the rules, they can complain and even scold their mothers face to face with the leader, but they will never violate these express regulations, which is the first element of mixing in a large unit. Don't break the rules, otherwise you will become the target of public criticism.
But Hong Tao didn't care about this, and he didn't plan to go to the camp to spend the days of drought and flood to ensure harvest in most ministries and commissions, the main reason why he came to work was to meet his own needs. On the first day of duty, he smoked in the duty room, and the old worker who was on the same shift as him carefully reminded him once, and after receiving a negative answer, he was silent. After a few times, which old worker also began to smoke at the door of the duty room, no longer went to the toilet in the corridor, and then went with Hong Tao and smoked in the duty room together. People are like this, they need a leader in everything they do, as if they have no responsibility after taking the lead.
Director Wu soon knew about this situation, because he didn't smoke, and he could smell it as soon as he stood up and entered the house. But he didn't squeak, pretending not to know. He knows better than anyone the nature of the work on duty, so that people who can smoke can stay here for a day and a half, every time they smoke, they have to go to the toilet in the corridor to stand and smoke, hot in summer and cold in winter and mosquito bites, it is indeed a little difficult.
He also knows whether those electronic devices will be damaged by smoking, they are actually just a few computers, but they are more professional. E-liquid does have some damage to them, but not to the extent that it affects their use. He also understands the principle of the lesser of two evils, as long as he can do a good job in the operation of the ground station, he has already completed the task in full, as for whether these equipment can be used for 15 or 16 years, it doesn't matter to him! It's not that they spend money to replace it at their own expense, and they can't offend employees for this little thing. If he drove Hong Tao away because of smoking, he would have to find someone else to be on duty, wouldn't it be a trouble for himself.
Smoking is just a small experiment for Hong Tao to test the way the leader works, after getting Director Wu's accurate response, he has the bottom in his heart, this direct boss is a leader who only looks at the results and does not look at the process, and it is also Hong Tao's favorite kind of boss. I've given you a hard job to make sure you don't drop the chain at work. Then, don't be too strict in terms of work discipline, we don't want to be promoted and make a fortune, just want to be a little more comfortable.