- 63: SURFACE, Site Division Creek, Mon 10-Apr-2006 18:44:09 GMT, Solar Campbell calibration corrected
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.
- 61: SURFACE, Site Division Creek, Sun 09-Apr-2006 19:13:57 GMT, IR Sensor work
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
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
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.
- 57: MISS MOVE, Site Division Creek, Fri 07-Apr-2006 22:26:58 GMT, MISS moved to Division Creek
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.