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  • Opening day at the new stadium

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    doachs

    This past Saturday I spent the day at the new football stadium here at Gustavus Adolphus College. I started the day by placing a webcam in the home team’s radio booth to capture images for the Gustavus website as well as to create a time lapse video of the day. We also used that camera…

  • Demolition of the old stadium

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    doachs

    On the morning of August 14th crews started the process of tearing down the old football stadium at Gustavus Adolphus College. Shortly after 2:00pm the last column was knocked down and the sorting of the rubble began. If you would like to watch the whole event as captured by our two HD webcams, click on…

  • New Stadium Turf Install Video

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    doachs

    Over the past week or so the turf installers have been busy installing the new “grass” in the stadium. They are not done yet. The yard markers and some of he edges are not finished yet and I think they still need to fill it in with “dirt”. I put together a time lapse video…

  • Better GACWireless for Uhler Hall

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    doachs

    This summer the network in Uhler Hall was upgraded with all new wires. As part of the update, many more jacks were installed. Each suite should now have at least one jack per person living there. Some of the other jacks that were installed are now connected to new wireless access points. Last year Uhler…

  • Old Stadium Demolition (now on chanel 7)

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    doachs

    It looks like the old stadium is on its way down. If you are at Gustavus and plugged into the network, you can watch it live. We also just added it to the local cable channel 7. Also be sure to check out the frequently updated images on the webcam page.

  • Sunday Power Outage (updated)

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    doachs

    For anyone who didn’t notice, Gustavus and parts of St. Peter had some major power issues on Sunday afternoon. Initially Olin hall was running on generator power but when the generators cooling hose broke and the fire department arrived, Olin was without power for a while. The brown out situation also caused damage to some…

  • New Stadium Update

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    doachs

    As you can see from the Stadium Webcams, the new turf is being installed this week. Hopefully this will make a good time lapse video. Speaking of time lapse videos, I have a few more of them to share. They are fairly large so unless you have a fast internet connection they may take a…

  • Webcam moved to new stadium

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    doachs

    This morning we moved one of our webcams from the old stadium to the new stadium. I believe that the old stadium will be torn down soon so we needed to get all of our equipment out of there. Also we now have power available to us in the new stadium and therefore are able…

  • Visitor Stands on the Move

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    doachs

    The new stadium has really been taking shape the past couple of weeks. Just a few days ago they moved the visitor stands from the old field location to the their home as part new stadium. We captured some images of the move and put together a couple of time lapse videos. This video is…

  • KEYC’s new Fox channel added to GusTV

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    doachs

    As of July 1st, 2007 the local television station KEYC based in Mankato began broadcasting its new Fox station ( KEYC-FO ). Since we get such a good signal from them and they appear to air programming that is usually different from that which is aired on the Twin Cities Fox channel, we decided to…