t-rex-iss1: MISS MOVE Messages: 18 Entries..

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.

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.

 

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.

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.

21;25 UT shutting down for move to OV2.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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

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

Moving MISS to 'D' location for IOP#6

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.

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.

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..

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.

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