t-rex-iss1: Chronological Logbook Entries

90: RADAR, Site Manzanar home TREX , Sun 30-Apr-2006 16:37:27 GMT, Profiler network connection problems

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MISS profiler pc seems to be having network connection problems.
The consensus files haven't been making it across to the data manager
since last evening, however the profiler is otherwise running okay.

The raw spectral files are being recorded okay so consensus data can
be recovered post-project.

Opening explorer showed that the k drive looks okay and is open,
and there was no error message in POP.  Rebooting computer didn't
help. Did rass run at 1635 as test but still not transfering data.
Since there's an EOP on now and the raw data is being recorded, 
I won't any further tests just now.

89: SOFTWARE, Site Manzanar home TREX , Sat 29-Apr-2006 23:58:58 GMT, Backup to USB disk

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Doing backup to an external UBS disk.

Tried connecting using firewire (daisy chained to Maddog DVD drive)
but it wasn't recognised.  So disconnected printer from USB port
and plugged in disk there and a Konqueror window popped up.

Backing up (from /data_source directory) using command:
rsync -v -u -r -t * /media/usbdisk/data/miss/data_source/

88: MISS MOVE, Site Manzanar home TREX , Fri 28-Apr-2006 18:57:14 GMT, MISS moved back to base

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Moved MISS back to it's base site near Manzanar.

Lat 36.726 Lon -118.134 Alt 1168m.

Trailer close to hill, orientated at 315 degrees.
Met tower 20m to NW.

Profiler set to 60 metre mode for tonight and tomorrow nights EOPs.

Help from the students (Serena, Heather, Alex).
Filmed by videographer and Vanda.
Smooth move, although conditions a little breezy.

Some problems with rack campbell so some solar radiation measurements,
cycling power on it seemed to fix it.

87: GENERATOR, Site Kiesarge Mine Site, Fri 28-Apr-2006 16:32:14 GMT, Generator stalled

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Generator stalled again last night around 10 - 11 UT.

86: RADAR, Site Kiesarge Mine Site, Thu 27-Apr-2006 18:09:00 GMT, Restarted for SOAP

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Restarted POP to get SOAP running again.  1810 UT

85: IMPORTANT IMPORTANT, Site Kiesarge Mine Site, Thu 27-Apr-2006 04:42:11 GMT, GENERATOR DIED

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When data did not show on web came to MISS found generator not running took several attempts before it would start. Appears to have gone down abot 02z restartedapprox 04:30

84: RADAR, Site Kiesarge Mine Site, Thu 27-Apr-2006 00:17:11 GMT, Profiler

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MISS profiler saw some reverse flow (westerlies low, easterlies aloft) at
around 16 UT (Apr 26).

Occasional light RFI and clutter, but relatively minor.

83: GENERATOR, Site Kiesarge Mine Site, Thu 27-Apr-2006 00:16:08 GMT, Filled tank

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Filled generator main tank - no pump problems.

82: GENERATOR, Site Kiesarge Mine Site, Tue 25-Apr-2006 17:02:59 GMT, Pump problems

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We are having problems with the pump on the truck diesel tank trying to fill the MISS fuel tanks.

81: RADAR, Site Kiesarge Mine Site, Tue 25-Apr-2006 16:59:35 GMT, Profiler down

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The MISS profiler went down at approx 2300 on the 24th. and was restarted at 1700 on the 25th. there was the following error message on the pop screen.
"Sampling did not finish in 5 sec. Flag = -1 SNR.

80: MISS MOVE, Site Kiesarge Mine Site, Mon 24-Apr-2006 18:58:18 GMT, Move to Kiersarge Mine site B

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MISS momved to Kiersarge mine site (ie, MISS site B).

Lat 36.809d Lon -118.110d Alt 1174m

Shutdown at base from about 1530UT.
Restart at Kiersarge Mine about 1830UT.

Trailer orientated at 188 deg, about 80m from road, close to base of hill.
Met tower to SE about 30 m.

Profiler signal fairly clean, little clutter, just a little RFI.

 

79: GENERATOR, Site Manzanar home TREX , Sun 23-Apr-2006 17:08:53 GMT, Generator service

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Generator was serviced today. RASS was turned off from 17:10 unti 18:38 utc
w2hile sywstem maintinaqnce wasw performed.

78: RADAR, Site Manzanar home TREX , Thu 20-Apr-2006 22:09:25 GMT, Profiler to 100m mode and trailer tilt

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Switched profiler to 100 meter mode at 22:10 UT for tomorrows IOP.

Also trailer waas slightly tilted.  
Putting electronic level along front side of profiler, 
was tilted 1.3 deg too high on east side and 0.4 deg along right side.
(0.1 along left side and 0.7 along back so overall tilt prob about 1 deg).
Lowered front right leg a little and now level to within 0.2 degree.

77: SURFACE, Site MISS, Thu 20-Apr-2006 18:12:58 GMT, Radiation restart

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MISS surface two , solar radiation was down. Restarted it . Also had to cycle power to the 12 v supply in the rack. Possible problem could have been heat related as neither ac or fan was running. Went down approx 2100z on the 19th restarted approx 1800 on the 20th

76: RADAR, Site Manzanar home TREX , Tue 18-Apr-2006 18:32:58 GMT, RASS on

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RASS was off overnight while Lou did repairs to supports on dish,
but on from 1830.

Keeping winds mode at 60m for tonight's EOP.

75: MISS MOVE, Site Manzanar home TREX , Mon 17-Apr-2006 23:17:18 GMT, MISS moved to Manzanar base site

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MISS now setup back at Manzanar base site.

Trailer bearing 316 degrees true north.

RASS is not being set up to give Lou a chance to repair the speaker
dishes.

The radiation plots stop at 20060416,00:30 UTC for an unknown reason.  There
are no data between then and 20060416,07:00, but for some reason those data
do not appear in plots.  With this startup the ingest and plotting appear
to be working again.  I have no explanation for the dropped data.

The radar has been put in 60m mode for the impending EOP.

74: RADAR, Site OV2, Mon 17-Apr-2006 00:01:39 GMT, Checked antenna level

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In the photos I took yesterday, the trailer looked a little crooked, so
I checked it with the level today.  The trailer is at 1.7 to 2 degrees
off level, but the antenna itself is within 0.2 degrees of level, in
both directions.

I think we need to mount the level sensor for the automatic jacks to the 
antenna instead of the trailer.

73: GENERATOR, Site OV2, Sun 16-Apr-2006 23:59:21 GMT, Filled generator fuel tank

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Filled tank.

72: GENERATOR, Site OV2, Sat 15-Apr-2006 22:34:02 GMT, Filled generator fuel tank

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71: GENERATOR, Site MISS, Sat 15-Apr-2006 00:56:00 GMT, Oil change and fill-up

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Changed oil and filled main fuel tank Friday (Apr 14) afternoon.

70: MISS MOVE, Site OV2, Sat 15-Apr-2006 00:08:03 GMT, MISS moved to OV2 site

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MISS moved to OV2, 1.7 miles up Onion Valley Rd from Hwy 395.

Surface met started around 23:30 and profiler around 23:55 (Apr 14).

Lat 36d 47.28m N 
Lon 118d 13.32m W
Alt 1335m

Trailer orientation is 152 degrees - almost the same as the orientation
when it was here last.

Antenna settings:

y38 y22 152
x25 x21 242
y26 332
x37 62

The profiler is getting good data - some clutter in the x25 (south-west),
but not much in the other beams.

The few several cycles had no interference but then we started getting 
occasional periods of it - probably the same RFI that has been bothering
ISS2 for the last few days.  It's not continuous (although is fairly stable
in frequency when it occurs) so it probably isn't ISS2 or MAPR. 
NIMA has been cleaning up the RFI we see at ISS2 so it'll probably
handle it here.

Move carried out by Mike, Bill, Serena, and Alex.

69: MISS MOVE, Site Manzanar home TREX , Fri 14-Apr-2006 21:24:23 GMT, Shutting down for move

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21;25 UT shutting down for move to OV2.

68: MISS MOVE, Site Manzanar home TREX , Wed 12-Apr-2006 23:17:24 GMT, MISS moved to Manzanar base site.

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Trailer bearing 30 degrees from true north.

Some bad clutter in the SE beam.  "Not great in the NW either," says Bill.
"The other two beams aren't so bad.  Little bit of RFI."

RASS temperature range changed to -10 to 30 degrees C.

The laptop hung after the first startup.  That's the second time I've
seen that.  The power button seems to be having problems.  It has to be held
down or pushed different directions sometimes to trigger it.

We tried calibrating the KVH with wide, slow, 2-minute circles at the
Manzanar airport, according to the tech support email, but the KVH readings
are still just plain wrong.  KVH ingest remains turned off.

Mike transferred some fuel from truck tank to rental generator tank.  He
says we need to add some fuel to the large fuel tank based here at the site.

Everything else operating normally.

Oh yeah, it's very windy.  The inside of the equipment cabin is covered with
dust.

67: MISS MOVE, Site Kiesarge Mine Site, Wed 12-Apr-2006 20:55:41 GMT, Shutting down for move back to base

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Shutting down MISS for move back to base 21 UT

Site looks okay - a little RFI just before shutdown, and clutter at about 3km,
probably scrubs on mountain side.

66: GENERATOR, Site Kiesarge Mine Site, Tue 11-Apr-2006 23:20:41 GMT, Filled generator fuel tank

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65: SOFTWARE, Site Kiesarge Mine Site, Mon 10-Apr-2006 22:55:52 GMT, KVH replaced, then disabled

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I replaced the KVH with the one that Lou shipped to us.  After calibrating
it at the Independence Airport, it still doesn't work.  Then at this site
the ingestor went berzerk repeatedly reporting "unexpected data" from the
KVH, so I've just disabled kvh ingest in the configuration.  The profiler
antenna orientation can continue to be measured manually with the compass
and then entered into the radar parameter file navigation script.

64: MISS MOVE, Site Mizorka Mine Site, Mon 10-Apr-2006 22:50:03 GMT, MISS moved to Kiersarge Mine site B

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MISS has been moved to the Kiesarge mine site B for IOP 12.

Trailer bearing determined manually to be 140 degrees from true north.  The
radar parameter files were modified accordingly using the 'Navigate
Radar Parameters' icon.

Setup crew was Mike, Hal, Gary, Serena, and Heather.

63: SURFACE, Site Division Creek, Mon 10-Apr-2006 18:44:09 GMT, Solar Campbell calibration corrected

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I corrected the Campbell calibration file TREXMSOL.DLD.  The last line, 
line 9:, of [ 3: polynomial [P55]] was changed from 15.530 to 17.844.  The
solar ingest has been restarted with the new DLD file.

62: IMPORTANT IMPORTANT, Site MISS, Mon 10-Apr-2006 18:04:41 GMT, MISS needs to have a bunch of earplugs available because of generator and RASS noise!!!!

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61: SURFACE, Site Division Creek, Sun 09-Apr-2006 19:13:57 GMT, IR Sensor work

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Hal and I noticed the IR sensor looks pretty weird on MISS. Something similar to what was happening in NAME. We have taken the sensor off the stand @12:10 and will look at it for problems and the DLD for problems also. 

Yesterday we found there was no battery in the IR sensor. To double check whether there should have been or not, we checked the ISS2 IR sensor and it had a battery. I found a spare battery in the ISS2 sensor case, so I grabbed it and put it in the MISS IR sensor. It seems to have helped some, but Lou also found a mistake in the coeffs put into the DLD file. We'll change that as well and hope for hte best.

60: RADAR, Site Division Creek, Sun 09-Apr-2006 18:37:01 GMT, Chicken wire fence test

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In an attempt to see if the mesh clutter fence has to large a holes, we took chicken wire and wrapped it around and zip-tied it to it. This should reduce the hole size in the fence.

We put the fencing on between 1030 and 1130 ltc. 

I took off the clutter filter, reduced it to 0 heights.

I took the DC filter off too, but that meant the dc signal completely dominated the spectra. 

As long at it doesn't ruin the profilers results we'll leave it on for a day. 

The winds stayed pretty low speed at the surface for the test. Now the next day I'm going to remove the chicken wire 1739utc and let the system run w/o the wire for an hour or so.

I was able to take the chicken wire off before the next RASS dwell started. Finished by 1800UTC. Now the radar will run on its own for an hour or more. 

59: RADAR, Site Division Creek, Sat 08-Apr-2006 00:00:19 GMT, MISS turned to 232

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There was lots of clutter at bearing 212, so we turned the trailer to 232.

We did this by stowing the satellite,
moving the RASS dishes out of the way, 
raising the jacks, and
backing the truck up to the hitch at 90 degrees, 
then pulling the trailer clockwise.

Everything else was left running.  I suspect we could have left the satellite
dish up and just hit search again after the move, but we stowed it first.

The trailer bearing is now 232 degrees from true north.
The radar par files have been modified accordingly and POP restarted.  The
clutter looks a little better, and there has been no sign of RFI.

58: SOFTWARE, Site MISS, Fri 07-Apr-2006 22:35:17 GMT, NTP crontab entry

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Since the satellite internet is never up before the laptop boots, the NTP
startup does not synchronize with its servers.  Restarting the ntpd service
always fixes this, so I just added a crontab entry to restart ntpd every
hour.  That seemed harmless enough.  Here's the crontab line:

30 * * * * /etc/init.d/ntpd restart > /dev/null 2>&1

It might be that ntp would eventually synchronize with the servers and I
just wasn't patient enough to notice.  An easy way to check is to run
ntpq and the 'lpeers' procedure:

[iss@iss1 tklog]$ ntpq
ntpq> lpeers
     remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset  jitter
==============================================================================
 ntp-1.cns.vt.ed 198.82.247.40    2 u   39   64    7  767.470  -13.153  46.794
 ntp-2.cns.vt.ed 198.82.247.40    2 u   37   64   17  790.262   -9.692  26.999
 ntp3.tamu.edu   128.194.254.7    2 u   36   64    7  882.431   -3.500  38.574
 ntp1.tummy.com  132.163.4.101    2 u   34   64    7  784.581  -32.636  43.044
 otc2.psu.edu    18.26.4.105      2 u   36   64    7  854.045   11.158  24.974
 mapr.localdomai .STEP.          16 u    -   64    0    0.000    0.000 4000.00
 iss-mapr.locald .STEP.          16 u    -   64    0    0.000    0.000 4000.00
ntpq>

57: MISS MOVE, Site Division Creek, Fri 07-Apr-2006 22:26:58 GMT, MISS moved to Division Creek

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MISS has been moved to the Division Creek site for IOP 10.

Trailer bearing determined manually to be 212 degrees from true north.  The
radar parameter files were modified accordingly using the 'Navigate
Radar Parameters' icon.

Both of the RASS speaker connectors are broken now.  Mike is going to
attempt to repair them.

Setup crew was Mike, Hal, Gary, Serena, and Heather.

56: RADAR, Site MISS, Fri 31-Mar-2006 20:32:54 GMT, radar down because of pause screwup 03-07 3-31-06 at F6 Div Creek site

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forgot to take off the pause... 

55: SOFTWARE, Site MISS, Fri 31-Mar-2006 09:03:25 GMT, Radar parameter manual navigation

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The script which automatically sets the navigation settings in the POP
radar parameter files now accpets manual overrides of the KVH trailer
bearing and also an altitude.  This makes the following procedure possible
when the KVH is not working:

Read the trailer bearing in degrees from true north (the direction in which
the tongue trailer is pointing).

Stop POP.

Double-click the ruler icon on the left side of the desktop, titled
Navigate Radar Parameters.

This runs a script which prompts for the trailer bearing and the altitude.
The most recent settings will be the defaults.  The altitude (in meters)
can be read from the GPS main screen.

Then allow the script to modify all of the radar par files on the PC and
replace the existing files.

If the KVH is correct, the trailer bearing can be specified as 'auto'.  If
an altitude is not given (ie, it is set to less than zero, like -999), then
the altitude in the par files is not changed, and the correct altitude
must set explicitly with the POP Alt-F3 screen.

54: MISS MOVE, Site MISS, Fri 31-Mar-2006 02:39:05 GMT, MISS at Site F6 IOP8

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MISS at Site F6 - Division Creek Road Water Sampler Site.
Lat 36d 56.397m Lon 118d 16.249m Alt 1259m

System running from around 0200 ut 3/31/06.

Trailer orientation is 232 deg true
(note KVH compass is way off at 193 deg may try another calibration).

The profiler is showing lots of clutter at many range gates,
although the only obivous clutter target is a power line a couple of
hundred meters to the north (we orientated the trailer to
reduce clutter from that) however we must be getting clutter
from scrubs and the nearby mountains.
NIMA reprocessing should be able to clean up some of the clutter.

POPs clutter search from 3km to 5.5km.

strapped down the sides of the clutter screen to see if it will help keep the screen from vibrating and worsening clutter. 

52: SOFTWARE, Site Manzanar home TREX , Thu 30-Mar-2006 04:49:40 GMT, EOP software checks (NIMA)

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NIMA results have not been sent for 3/28 and 3/29, so I came to check on it.

I noticed the gps ingestor (gps_adam) was taking up lots of cpu, 80-90%.
strace showed it looping through select and read: select() was returning that the serial port was ready, but a subsequent read returned 0 bytes:

select(6, [3 5], NULL, NULL, {300, 0})  = 1 (in [5], left {300, 0})
read(5, "", 512)                        = 0
select(6, [3 5], NULL, NULL, {300, 0})  = 1 (in [5], left {300, 0})
read(5, "", 512)                        = 0
...

Restarting the gps appears to have fixed it.  Perhaps this a bug in the edgeport or serial driver.

I then noticed 3 wppp processes running at the same time for the same day, so something got hung up or slowed them down.  I killed all of those and restarted the processing for 3/29.  According to the log for 3/28, a profiler parameter change is preventing that whole day from being processed.

It took about an hour to process one whole day, so I increased NIMA run times to every four hours.

There were old data files from 2/18 with zero length which were causing error log messages in zebra, so I removed them.

51: SURFACE, Site Manzanar home TREX , Wed 29-Mar-2006 21:48:01 GMT, Surface Anemometer restored now

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Hal and I put on the new anemometer today and renorthed it. 

50: DAILY, Site Manzanar home TREX , Tue 28-Mar-2006 22:37:51 GMT, Hal Taking Control

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Visiting site today, getting ready for EOP2.

Need to fix MISS met tower tomorrow.

49: SURFACE, Site MISS, Tue 28-Mar-2006 22:36:29 GMT, data quality

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T,RH data no good since 0800 UTC, under investigation

48: GENERATOR, Site MISS, Tue 28-Mar-2006 22:34:07 GMT, Big Generator at MISS Base refueled

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added 30 gals to big generator at MISS base 22 UTC March 28th

47: GENERATOR, Site MISS, Tue 28-Mar-2006 00:22:09 GMT, Generator serviced

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Generator serviced before the move at 490 h (see white board for details)

46: MISS MOVE, Site MISS, Tue 28-Mar-2006 00:13:49 GMT, MISS Moved to Manzanar site for IOP #6

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MISS moved to Manzanar site for IOP#7 hooked up to main generator.

2-m tower with p,T,rh set up 20 m north of trailer. Sans anemometer.

Angles

Y38, yvert = 199
X25, xvert = 289
Y26 = 19
X37 = 109

45: SURFACE, Site MISS, Sun 26-Mar-2006 19:22:31 GMT, data quality

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IR data has gone out again (since 1600 UTC, Mar 26)

T,rh data from tower between 0230 and 1930 UTC, March 26, were obtained at 
ground due to tower being overturned.

44: SURFACE, Site MISS, Sun 26-Mar-2006 19:13:47 GMT, Tower damaged

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Bad night for tower!

The 10 m tower was blown over during peak wind event last night.
Highest recorded wind speed was 24 ms-1 (no doubt there were higher
gusts up to 30 m s-1).

The metal post connecting the anemometer to the tower was sheared off, 
with bottom piece still in the tubing. Front piece of prop vane was driven 
into the ground and is badly damaged - though the directional sensor appears
to be working.

TRH tubing also got smashed, amzaingingly the fan and sensors are still working,
housing may be salvageable with plumber glue and duct tape.

Pictures of the damage were taken.

43: GENERATOR, Site MISS, Sun 26-Mar-2006 19:12:32 GMT, Generator refueled

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Generator refueled at 19 UTC on the 26th of march


tank was just about empty after 42 hours

42: GENERATOR, Site MISS, Sat 25-Mar-2006 00:20:41 GMT, Generator refueled

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Generator refueled at 00 UTC on the 25th of march

41: RADAR, Site MISS, Sat 25-Mar-2006 00:18:10 GMT, radar data quality

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Picking up some rf interference this afternoon.

I am also starting to notice the +/-17 ms-1 signal again.

40: SURFACE, Site MISS, Fri 24-Mar-2006 21:11:16 GMT, IR data looks funny

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IR data reading too low. Started rapid downward trend around 16 UTC
around 16 UTC.

Tried disconnecting and reconnecting.

Also cleaned sensor domes.

39: MISS MOVE, Site MISS, Fri 24-Mar-2006 06:24:26 GMT, MISS Moved to site 'D' for IOP #6

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MISS moved to Location D for IOP #6. This site is located
 0.7 miles west on dirt road off 395 to REAL. The site is shielded
from the highway by mounds of dirt to the east.

Photos of sight taken.

All systems up and running without a glitch. 

Generator will need to be refuelled tomorrow.



Angles

Y38, yvert = 192
X25, xvert = 282
Y26 = 12
X37 = 102

38: MISS MOVE, Site MISS, Thu 23-Mar-2006 23:55:54 GMT, MISS Shutdown

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Moving MISS to 'D' location for IOP#6

37: RADAR, Site Manzanar home TREX , Thu 23-Mar-2006 18:41:55 GMT, MISS profiler RFI

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Profiler starting to pick up a little interference again this morning.

Source of RFI is unknown.

36: DAILY, Site MISS, Thu 23-Mar-2006 18:38:09 GMT, End EOP #1 March 23 1800 UTC (photos)

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Everything appears to have operated normally overnight at MISS.

Brief period of light northerlies at surface between 16 and 17 UTC
this morning. Netrad never got less than -10 W m-2 due to
persistent cirrus cloud deck.

Donkeys seem to like the trailer, they have congregated all around it.

Turned on AC as it looks like it will get warm in here today.

I took 5 or 6 photos of the site this morning as well.

35: SURFACE, Site Manzanar home TREX , Thu 23-Mar-2006 00:34:27 GMT, Tower moved

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We moved the Met tower about 30 m to the NE at 2345 UTC so that it would be
out of the line of site of the MotoSat.

34: RADAR, Site Manzanar home TREX , Thu 23-Mar-2006 00:32:46 GMT, MISS profiler RFI

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Profiler seems to be picking up some interference since about 20 UTC,
this interference has swamped the signal between 22 and 00 UTC.

Source of RFI is unknown.

33: MotoSat, Site Manzanar home TREX , Thu 23-Mar-2006 00:27:26 GMT, Satcom back on line

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We went through a number of steps to get sat com back on line.

1) stowing dish and cycling power

2) check all connections in trailer and on roof, some of the
connections had gotten a bit loose.

3) moved tower - it had been in line of site of antenna so the 
thinking was it was interfering with reception.


4) after moving tower, restowing dish and powering back up,
the satcom came back on line

32: MISS MOVE, Site MISS, Tue 21-Mar-2006 22:15:03 GMT, MISS moved at 2030 UTC 21 March 06

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Moved MISS to BASE station this morning. All systems appear operational.

Set profiler with following headings

y38 = 209
x25 = 299
y26 = 029
x37 = 119

One RASS connector was busted during tear down.

Note: Met tower is located on a ~5 m high pile of dirt to the
south of the trailer.

31: GENERATOR, Site MISS, Tue 21-Mar-2006 22:13:51 GMT, Generator serviced at 401 h

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generator serviced at OV2 site before moving MISS

30: GENERATOR, Site MISS, Tue 21-Mar-2006 01:18:16 GMT, Generator refueled

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Generator refueled

29: RADAR, Site MISS, Tue 21-Mar-2006 00:47:20 GMT, Radar Interference / Plan to move to base

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Brief period of interference encountered at 16 UTC, 20 March. Also, some
noisy wind vectors in lowest range gates, may be due to cars passing by.

Otherwise, all systems performed normally during IOP.

Plan to move MISS back to base tomorrow (TUES) morning.

28: MISS MOVE, Site MISS, Mon 20-Mar-2006 03:02:50 GMT, Moving MISS for IOP #5 to Onion Valley Site

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MISS set up at Onion Valley Site about 1.6miles west of 395.

Teardown and setup took about 3 hrs, with some time after to
watch the data. Had to reposition anemometer to get correct wind
direction.

Entered new heading for trailer.

Y38, yvert = 150
x25, xvert = 240
y26 = 330
x37 = 60

Also updated altitude (1326 m) and lat/lon (36.79, 118.22).

Data transfer to the data manager ok.

All met data looks reasonable.

Crew: Pinto, Martin, Brian P and Brian B.

Good work by all on short notice.

27: MISS MOVE, Site MISS, Sun 19-Mar-2006 23:23:23 GMT, Moving MISS for IOP #5 to Onion Valley Site

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Got request today at 2 PM to move MISS.

Will tear down MISS today and move to new site. Will complete
setup tomorrow morning by 9 AM..

26: GENERATOR, Site MISS, Sun 19-Mar-2006 22:58:36 GMT, Generator refueled

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Generator refueled

25: GENERATOR, Site MISS, Sat 18-Mar-2006 21:18:24 GMT, Generator refueled

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Filled generator tank with diesel.

24: RADAR, Site MISS, Fri 17-Mar-2006 01:22:29 GMT, Radar Interference 20:30-22:45 UTC

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Thursday March 16.
Profiler was experiencing some type of interference - Mike thinks. 
This lasted from about 20:30 UTC to 22:45 UTC.

I assumed it was still occurring and restarted the system
at 0030 UTC - appearantly un-necessarily.

All data appears to be ok now.

23: RADAR, Site MISS, Thu 16-Mar-2006 19:09:33 GMT, Shutdown for generator service at 17Z up at 19:05Z

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Thursday March 16.
Brian serviced the generator this morning. MISS was left off in anticipation of a move to OV2 at noon. However, the PI called with a nowcast of a wave/rotor cloud and asked us to turn MISS back on. We will hear by 1pm about a move this afternoon.

Off: approx 17Z (9am). On approx 19Z (11am)

22: GENERATOR, Site MISS, Thu 16-Mar-2006 01:18:58 GMT, partially refueled generator; 01Z Mar 16; down to 3/8 tank; now at 11/16

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refueled generator 5pm Wednesday Mar 15 (21Z Mar 13). We will move MISS tomorrow and want a light load.

21: GENERATOR, Site MISS, Tue 14-Mar-2006 20:56:05 GMT, refueled generator; 21Z Mar 14; down to 1/16 tank

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refueled generator 1pm Tuesday Mar 14 (21Z Mar 13). Was at 1/16 tank on the main.

Ran for 44 hours on Main. Probably the longest it should be let go without a refill.

20: SOFTWARE, Site MISS, Tue 14-Mar-2006 18:19:13 GMT, data_store backup: 7pm Mar 13 (03UT Mar 14)

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Charlie wrote the data_store to a DVD at 7pm Monday March 13 (03Z Mar 14). I will bring this DVD ack to Boulder

19: GENERATOR, Site MISS, Mon 13-Mar-2006 01:28:58 GMT, refuel generator; 01Z Mar 13; down to 1/2 tank

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refueled generator 5pm Sunday Mar 12 (01Z Mar 13). Was at 1/2 tank.
Also added 25 gallons to truck transfer tank.

18: GENERATOR, Site MISS, Fri 10-Mar-2006 15:29:28 GMT, refuel generator down to 1/2 tank

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17: RADAR, Site MISS, Fri 10-Mar-2006 00:30:22 GMT, Profiler: cns having trouble in variable reflectivity. Maybe NIMA will do better

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Thursday 4pm (00Z Mar 10)
Weak clear air, but some snow and ice crystal reflectivity aloft showing vertical motions. The consensus is failing but I bet winds could be pulled out of this data.

16: GENERATOR, Site MISS, Fri 10-Mar-2006 00:28:07 GMT, Thursday early: MISS generator refueled

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Brian refueled the MAIN tank overnight. All running well.

15: DAILY, Site MISS, Wed 08-Mar-2006 17:49:40 GMT, Tuesday: MISS turned off for some rest, and the generator 100-hr service done

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Wednesday morning:

Breezy and a fair bit of ground clutter this morning.
17:50 Shutting down for generator service and a day of rest and recovery

Brian did the 100-hour Kubota service at noon today.

Restarted at 23:30 UT (3:30pm) in anticipation of IOP#3 unexpectedly called for 11UT tomorrow (i.e. 3am)

All systems came up fine.

NOTE: Fuel just above half in the Main tank. Will need fuel by 8am or swidch to day tank for a few extra hours.

14: GENERATOR, Site MISS, Wed 08-Mar-2006 17:46:46 GMT, Tuesday: MISS generator refueled

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(Tuesday)
MISS running well. Switched to the day tank until Brian arrives with the fueling truck.

Now:
Refueled MAIN, topped off DAY, and running from MAIN

13: RADAR, Site MISS, Mon 06-Mar-2006 18:29:28 GMT, Checking on MISS

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Monday mroning check up.

Seems to be running well.  Now that we have a little weather,
(lots of low clouds, occasional drizzle) we'll getting good signal
with manageable clutter.

Main tank is just over half full, and day tank is full.

Saw some RFI on the 18:30 UT RASS run, although generally RASS looks
to be doing okay (the last few runs have got to 700m), this run
only got consensus to 300m.

Winds mode is not showing any obivous RFI.

12: MISS MOVE, Site MISS, Sun 05-Mar-2006 22:44:53 GMT, MISS at Site F6

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MISS at Site F6 - Division Creek Road Water Sampler Site.
Lat 36d 56.397m Lon 118d 16.249m Alt 1259m

System running from around 21:30 UT

Brisk southerlies.  A line of rotor clouds almost directly overhead
from a couple of miles south of here, and runs off to the north.
Should be a good site to study these rotor clouds.
(The east edge of the clouds currently runs direectly over the site).

Trailer orientation is 214 deg true
(note KVH compass is way off at 149 deg despite calibration circle
run on the way to this site).

The profiler is showing lots of clutter at all range gates,
although the only obivous clutter target is a power line a couple of
hundred meters to the north (we orientated the trailer to
reduce clutter from that) however we must be getting clutter
from scrubs and the nearby mountains.
NIMA reprocessing should be able to clean up some of the clutter.

Mike tried removing some of the underside panels from about 22UT.
(per per Paul Johnston's suggestion) however it is not clear if that helps.


Increased POPs clutter search from 3km to 5.5km at 23UT - seems to help
a little.

23:35 UT Let air out of antenna shocks as the antenna seems to be
bouncing up and down with the wind.
Need to refill these before moving MISS.

11: MISS MOVE, Site Manzanar home TREX , Sun 05-Mar-2006 18:06:47 GMT, Shut-down for move for IOP 2

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Shut down MISS for move to north of Independence for IOP 2
18 UT March 5

10: RADAR, Site MISS, Fri 03-Mar-2006 02:33:48 GMT, Easterlies

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Clear easterlies on MISS profiler from around 2:15 UT persisting for at
least 30 minutes.  They are from the lowest gate, nearly up to 1 km.
Surface south-easterlies, might be usual valley flow.

Also probable easterlies showing up is SOAP 10 minute analysis around
1:15 - 1:30 UT (we'll reanalyze with NIMA to confirm).

9: RADAR, Site MISS, Thu 02-Mar-2006 00:10:46 GMT, Motosat problems

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Had some Motosat problems after the power down for  reorientating MISS.
Did stow the sat while moving, and powered up as per instructions, 
but it hung not responding to buttons nor web page.

Eventually powered off the Motosat power strip,
stowed dish, then did search again.
This time it worked and link now is okay.

Briefly turned off profiler to check K drive still connected around 0UT

8: GENERATOR, Site MISS, Wed 01-Mar-2006 23:18:35 GMT, Generator Servicing

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Generator Service 2 pm local.
Will also service ISS2

7: RADAR, Site MISS, Wed 01-Mar-2006 23:10:38 GMT, Re-orientate MISS

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Re-orientate MISS at Base Site

Profiler down 21 - 23 UT.

We were getting lots of clutter - mainly in east and west beams so we decided
to orientate the system to point nulls at the power lines.
This will put a main lobe towards ISS2 - but it doesn't seem to be
getting RFI so this appears to be okay.

Trailer is now orientated to 289 degrees true (as measured by compass
and confirmed by a map reading).  
KVH reading is 313 and Motosat reading is 307 true
(but Motosat is having trouble locking to satellite).

Clutter appears to be much better.
(run briefly at 22ut to test new orientation, but antenna directions
not yet corrected nor system leveled).

Running correctly from about 23 UT

6: RADAR, Site Manzanar home TREX , Tue 28-Feb-2006 22:35:37 GMT, moved rass dishes

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The wind at the surface is out of the west and the dishes were in the south. There was little rass signal in the profiler, so I moved the dishes to the sides and it appears to have helped.

5: RADAR, Site MISS, Sun 26-Feb-2006 22:14:21 GMT, RFI and weak RASS

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Some RFI again up to 2130.

Very weak RASS so moved dishes from north (downwind) to south end of
trailer - brisk southerly.

4: SURFACE, Site MISS, Sun 26-Feb-2006 20:31:19 GMT,

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For some reason surface two stoped at approx 2300 on the 25th It was restarted at approx 2030 of the 26th

There is also no radiation and both of these measurements are on the second campbell, so I need to ask gary about that data.

3: DAILY, Site , Sat 25-Feb-2006 01:16:09 GMT, MISS report (testing)

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Fri Feb 24

Fine clear day.

Test drives to a few MISS roving sites around valley
(eg, M1, M8, M9, M4, and old mine site from SRP),
All seem okay, though we'll need to be careful on the drive in.

Set up MISS again at the base site.
There seems to be a problem with the KVH - it has the trailer pointing
at 5 deg magnetic, when the orientation is actually 342 magnetic
(or 356 true - confirmed using a compass reading on a landmark and
comparison with a topo map).

POP config program used the KVH value so we'll need some way of
over-riding this.

There was quite a bit of RFI on the profiler (none at MAPR).
It disappeared later in afternoon and we weren't able to trace the source.

2: SOUNDING, Site UMBS, Tue 27-Jun-2000 13:01:25 GMT, Sounding Launch Log Template

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CLASS LAUNCH LOG						 version:951116
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1. Clone the original sounding log file.
2. Enter information before launch.
3. Enter post-termination data.
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SITE INFO
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Site Name: 
date yymmdd: 
launch time UTC: 
Sonde coef tape #:

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MET INFO
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Temp C		: 
RH %		: 

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Pressure mb	: 
Temp C		: 
RH%		: 
Wind Spd m/s	: 
Wind Dir deg	: 

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
Weather Description	( visibility, sea state, cloud coverage and cloud type, 
		          rain, virga, etc. )


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Termination Pressure mb	: 
Termination Altitude km	: 
Reason for Termination	: 

Post-Termination Weather Description: 

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1: LOG, Site none, Tue 11-Apr-2000 15:53:29 GMT, Logbook created

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initial log file /iss/home/iss/tklog.log created by USER iss