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56 Mon 01-May-2006End of projectISS2 Onion RoadBill
55 Sat 29-Apr-2006Profiler to 60m modeISS2 Onion RoadBill
54 Thu 27-Apr-2006Generator filledISS2 Onion RoadBill
53 Thu 27-Apr-2006Profilier stalledISS2 Onion RoadBill
52 Tue 25-Apr-2006ISS2 Onion RoadLou
51 Tue 25-Apr-2006Profiler locked upISS2 Onion RoadLou
50 Sat 22-Apr-2006Profile low high ISS2 Onion RoadBill
49 Thu 20-Apr-2006Profiler PC restartISS2 Onion RoadBill
47 Thu 20-Apr-2006filled generator tankISS2 Onion RoadJason
46 Thu 20-Apr-2006Profiler to 100m modeISS2 Onion RoadBill
45 Wed 19-Apr-2006Profiler stalledISS2 Onion RoadBill
44 Tue 18-Apr-2006FilledISS2 Onion RoadLou
43 Tue 18-Apr-2006BackupISS2 Onion RoadLou
42 Tue 18-Apr-2006Profiler to 60m modeISS2 Onion RoadBill
41 Sun 16-Apr-2006Daily Report - Sunday April 16 IOP 13ISS2 Onion RoadBill
40 Sun 16-Apr-2006Filled generator tankISS2 Onion RoadBill
39 Sun 16-Apr-2006Backup profiler dataISS2 Onion RoadBill
38 Tue 11-Apr-2006Filled generator tank.ISS2 Onion RoadGary
37 Sun 09-Apr-2006RFI here still, fill generator and inspect IR for battery, which it hasISS2 Onion RoadMike
36 Mon 03-Apr-2006Servicing the generator todayISS2 Onion RoadMike
35 Mon 03-Apr-2006POP program hung - rebooted profiler PCISS2 Onion RoadGary
34 Sat 01-Apr-2006Site inspection, everything seems fine. Filling generator nowISS2 Onion RoadMike
33 Wed 29-Mar-2006DVD Data BackupISS2 Onion RoadJames
32 Tue 28-Mar-2006Fueled generator 02 UTC March 28ISS2 Onion RoadJames
31 Sat 25-Mar-2006IOP6 - easterliesISS2 Onion RoadJames
30 Sat 25-Mar-2006data qc issueISS2 Onion RoadJames
29 Sat 25-Mar-2006Fueled generator 21 UTC March 25ISS2 Onion RoadJames
28 Thu 23-Mar-2006Fueled genrator 6:00am3/22ISS2 Onion RoadOperator
27 Tue 21-Mar-2006refueled generator. 35 gallons [4 PM Friday Mar 20]ISS2 Onion RoadJames
26 Sat 18-Mar-2006brief profiler stoppageISS2 Onion RoadJames
25 Fri 17-Mar-2006Profiler back on line ~20 UTC 17 MarchISS2 Onion RoadJames
24 Fri 17-Mar-2006refueled generator. 25 gallons [12 noon Friday Mar 17]ISS2 Onion RoadJames
23 Fri 17-Mar-2006profiler down timeISS2 Onion RoadJames
19 Tue 14-Mar-2006Moving 1 box or sondes to MAPR ISS2 Onion RoadSteve
16 Thu 09-Mar-2006Daily ChecksISS2 Onion RoadOperator
15 Wed 08-Mar-2006fueled generatorISS2 Onion RoadSteve
14 Mon 06-Mar-2006Site check, finding plenty of RFI, gen mag key box moved to the ISS2 spotISS2 Onion RoadMike
13 Fri 03-Mar-2006RFIISS2 Onion RoadBill
12 Thu 02-Mar-2006ISS2 Onion RoadGary
11 Thu 02-Mar-2006Parameter changeISS2 Onion RoadBill
10 Thu 02-Mar-2006Generator Service and network problemsISS2 Onion RoadBill
9 Tue 28-Feb-2006Profiler parameters and k driveISS2 Onion RoadBill
8 Sun 26-Feb-2006Profiler directions fixedISS2 Onion RoadBill
7 Sat 25-Feb-2006Setup continuedISS2 Onion RoadBill
6 Sat 25-Feb-2006ISS2 Onion RoadJason
5 Wed 15-Feb-2006ISS2 Onion RoadISS2 Onion RoadJason


56: IMPORTANT IMPORTANT, Site ISS2 Onion Road, Mon 01-May-2006 23:09:10 GMT, End of project
End of T-REX project

System shutdown (around 23 UT May 1) and data backup.
Profiler SPC files backed up to DVD and the data manager backed up to USB drive
(since there's too much data for DVDs).


55: RADAR, Site ISS2 Onion Road, Sat 29-Apr-2006 00:02:26 GMT, Profiler to 60m mode
Set ISS2 profiler into 60 meter mode for the EOPs tonight and tomorrow. 0UT.

54: GENERATOR, Site ISS2 Onion Road, Thu 27-Apr-2006 01:41:18 GMT, Generator filled
ISS2 generator filled - 22G.

53: RADAR, Site ISS2 Onion Road, Thu 27-Apr-2006 01:26:41 GMT, Profilier stalled
ISS2 wind profiler stalled at 0UT.
POP was showing the text of the wind consensus and had just turned on RASS.
RASS was emitting sound, but POP had stalled.
It is not obivous why the stall occurred.
Checking crontab on data manager, there isn't shouldn't be a spectral file
transfer at that time, just the usual consensus file transfer.

Note reverse flow, easterlies aloft, westerlies near ground (possible rotor)
22 UT (Apr 26) for a couple of hours.


52: GENERATOR, Site ISS2 Onion Road, Tue 25-Apr-2006 16:27:43 GMT,
On the 24th of April the system was shut from approx 17:45 to 18:30 for generator servicing.
51: RADAR, Site ISS2 Onion Road, Tue 25-Apr-2006 16:23:56 GMT, Profiler locked up
From approx 23:00 on the 24 to 15:55 on the 25th the radar was hung in rass mode. The pop program was shut down and restarted. The system was observed for two rass cycles during which time everything appeared to work correctly
50: RADAR, Site ISS2 Onion Road, Sat 22-Apr-2006 20:38:23 GMT, Profile low high
Took POP to setup screen (demonstrating for Jason).
Did not change modes, still in 100m mode, however on the next consensus
the data manager ingest put the 100m winds back in prof915l (low mode)
instead of prof915h as it had been doing since the last EOP.
It's not clear why this happened, but the data is still being recorded okay
so it isn't a problem.



49: RADAR, Site ISS2 Onion Road, Thu 20-Apr-2006 21:24:24 GMT, Profiler PC restart
Restarted profiler computer (training for Jason).

47: GENERATOR, Site ISS2 Onion Road, Thu 20-Apr-2006 21:10:48 GMT, filled generator tank
generator was filled @ ~2pm did not note how many gallons it took. sorry!  the main tank was at around half full.
46: RADAR, Site ISS2 Onion Road, Thu 20-Apr-2006 21:09:25 GMT, Profiler to 100m mode
Switched profiler from 60 m mode to 100m mode for tomorrow's IOP.
The velociy aliasing is also a little wider (17 m/s).


45: RADAR, Site ISS2 Onion Road, Wed 19-Apr-2006 01:55:19 GMT, Profiler stalled
The POP process on the profiler PC stalled at the end of the 
23:30UT connsensus.  The display on the PC was the wind profile plot.

It's not clear what caused the stall which occurred about 40 minutes
after we left the site.  No error messages.

Wasn't responsing to keystrokes, however did respond to crtl-alt-del,
which put me back in the WinXP screen.  Rebooted to clear reset the PC.
Running okay from about 1:55 UT.




44: GENERATOR, Site ISS2 Onion Road, Tue 18-Apr-2006 22:46:52 GMT, Filled
Fuel filled, 22 G

43: SOFTWARE, Site ISS2 Onion Road, Tue 18-Apr-2006 22:46:07 GMT, Backup
Backup RAW and NIMA data to DVDs

42: RADAR, Site ISS2 Onion Road, Tue 18-Apr-2006 22:41:48 GMT, Profiler to 60m mode
Switched profiler to 60 meter mode for tonight's EOP.
Similar settings to MISS (although slight differences in IPP
to reduce RFI).

Reduced delay to 1800 ns to lower first gate to 120 meters.
Produces slight spurs in spectra, but should be okay in post-processing.

Widened RASS to -10 to 30C as it may get hot tomorrow.

41: DAILY, Site ISS2 Onion Road, Sun 16-Apr-2006 20:43:53 GMT, Daily Report - Sunday April 16 IOP 13
Daily Report - Sunday April 16

IOP 13 underway.  
Southerlies at low levels increasing through the day and occasionally
jumping around in direction - appears to be some reverse flow during 
the afternoon.
Clear skies early, then high clouds (with wave patterns) and 
ridge-top clouds forming along the Sierra often drifting part-way
over the valley.  Some snow blowing off the ridges.
Dust increasing.

All systems working well.  
The soundings show dry air aloft so the profilers aren't seeing very high.
Still some interference at ISS2 and MISS (MAPR okay) - 
suspect some of it may be the sodar-RASS.
NIMA still doing a good job of cleaning up the data.

ISS2 profiler clock appears to be about 2 minutes fast.
Don't want to interupt profiler ops during IOP so will check and fix
after IOP finishes.

Sodar working okay, however not seeing very high due to the wind.

Had four sondes with bad RH sensors, they were not launched.
See the sounding log at MAPR for details.

Deer near ISS2 this morning.





40: GENERATOR, Site ISS2 Onion Road, Sun 16-Apr-2006 17:11:04 GMT, Filled generator tank
Filled generator tank - 10G  17 UT


39: RADAR, Site ISS2 Onion Road, Sun 16-Apr-2006 16:56:34 GMT, Backup profiler data
Backed up the profiler SPC files to DVD.

Raw data backup too big for one disk so just backed up SPC files using

growisofs -R -J -Z /dev/hdc /data/ds/spc

SPC files from D06045 to H06106 3.8 GB


38: GENERATOR, Site ISS2 Onion Road, Tue 11-Apr-2006 22:49:04 GMT, Filled generator tank.

37: DAILY, Site ISS2 Onion Road, Sun 09-Apr-2006 22:13:29 GMT, RFI here still, fill generator and inspect IR for battery, which it has
Still have RFI up here

There is a battery in this IR but not the MISS IR.

Fill gen with deisel
36: GENERATOR, Site ISS2 Onion Road, Mon 03-Apr-2006 18:44:05 GMT, Servicing the generator today
everything is restarted, no to do the mazanar site.
35: RADAR, Site ISS2 Onion Road, Mon 03-Apr-2006 05:37:52 GMT, POP program hung - rebooted profiler PC
All radar data stopped flowing at 3 April 00z.  The profiler PC screen was
stuck on the green consensus summary profile plot.  It did not respond to
any keys.  I hit Alt-ESC to return to the Windows desktop.  When I tried to
reboot, Windows said the POP cmd.exe session would not terminate.  I forced
a reboot anyway.

On restart the K: drive did not work, but this has been a recurring problem
at this site.  I tried disconnecting and reconnecting the K: drive, but it
still did not reconnect at startup like it should.  I had to open the K:
drive shortcut and enter the password for the K: connection to work, before
the POP program started.

It appears to be working now; I'll check that the consensus makes it across
when I return to mapr.

34: DAILY, Site ISS2 Onion Road, Sat 01-Apr-2006 22:04:46 GMT, Site inspection, everything seems fine. Filling generator now

33: SOFTWARE, Site ISS2 Onion Road, Wed 29-Mar-2006 21:12:30 GMT, DVD Data Backup
Made DVD backup of data at 2110 UTC on March 29th
32: GENERATOR, Site ISS2 Onion Road, Tue 28-Mar-2006 02:20:16 GMT, Fueled generator 02 UTC March 28
23 gallons

31: DAILY, Site ISS2 Onion Road, Sat 25-Mar-2006 21:13:49 GMT, IOP6 - easterlies
2115 UTC - brief period of strong easteries at the surface, dark clouds overhead
with light rain sprinkles

30: RADAR, Site ISS2 Onion Road, Sat 25-Mar-2006 21:09:23 GMT, data qc issue
profiler appears to be getting good signal up to 6 km, not clear
why some much data is being removed by qc for online quicklooks
and issgp1


29: GENERATOR, Site ISS2 Onion Road, Sat 25-Mar-2006 21:05:18 GMT, Fueled generator 21 UTC March 25
23 gallons
28: GENERATOR, Site ISS2 Onion Road, Thu 23-Mar-2006 14:13:25 GMT, Fueled genrator 6:00am3/22

27: GENERATOR, Site ISS2 Onion Road, Tue 21-Mar-2006 00:27:56 GMT, refueled generator. 35 gallons [4 PM Friday Mar 20]
refueled generator 35 gallons Mon Mar 20 at 4 PM.

all systems functioning normally





26: RADAR, Site ISS2 Onion Road, Sat 18-Mar-2006 01:12:18 GMT, brief profiler stoppage
stopped pop to copy files from yesterday at 0110 UTC.

started it back up and everything seems to be fine - (i.e., latest 
data can be viewed with the data manager computer.)


25: RADAR, Site ISS2 Onion Road, Fri 17-Mar-2006 20:05:02 GMT, Profiler back on line ~20 UTC 17 March
concensus winds came across to the data manager and look good
nice profile up to 2500 m
24: GENERATOR, Site ISS2 Onion Road, Fri 17-Mar-2006 20:02:46 GMT, refueled generator. 25 gallons [12 noon Friday Mar 17]
refueled generator 23 gallons Fri Mar 17 at 12 noon.




23: RADAR, Site ISS2 Onion Road, Fri 17-Mar-2006 19:45:03 GMT, profiler down time
The profiler/rass has been down since 4 PM yesterday.
It appearantly hung up at 2359 UTC March 16th during a
consensus wind calculation as the x-y plots of
wind speed and direction were still displayed on the 
profiler computer screen.

As per B. Brown's direction:

The profiler software was killed and the computer was restarted.

However, on restart the link between the data manager and profiler computer
was not automatically established, so we had to manually log into the k 
drive (on datamanager).

No data was collected between 00 UTC and 1930 UTC. This was checked
before restarting the profiler software.
19: SOUNDING, Site ISS2 Onion Road, Tue 14-Mar-2006 00:02:26 GMT, Moving 1 box or sondes to MAPR
Moving 1 box of sondes to MAPR
16: DAILY, Site ISS2 Onion Road, Thu 09-Mar-2006 15:58:21 GMT, Daily Checks
Inspected equipment, O.K.
Systems appear to be operating normally,
Pumped 63 gallons of fuel into transfer tank,
Check generator, operating normally, fuel level good
Profiller disk 0.0% full
Rass operating.
Web site appears to be updating.
15: GENERATOR, Site ISS2 Onion Road, Wed 08-Mar-2006 20:30:08 GMT, fueled generator
Added 18G (3/8)
Bill added 10G on 3/6
14: DAILY, Site ISS2 Onion Road, Mon 06-Mar-2006 03:07:28 GMT, Site check, finding plenty of RFI, gen mag key box moved to the ISS2 spot
Plenty of RFI loading into the beams. I will be necessary to get the ISFF guys to turn off their data transmitter during one of these periods to find out if that is the source.

Site check shows things fine. 

Moving generator mag box to rear of ISS2 trailer underneath. 
13: RADAR, Site ISS2 Onion Road, Fri 03-Mar-2006 23:15:48 GMT, RFI
RFI.

There is a little intermittant radio interfence on the north beam.
It is about 1 dB on the spectra, and does not appear to be causing
wind problems at this time.
It might be due to the sodar-RASS. 
12: NETWORK, Site ISS2 Onion Road, Thu 02-Mar-2006 03:37:24 GMT,
Arrived at the site to check on satellite internet, but it appears to have corrected itself.  It's possible that the router needed to renew it's DHCP lease with the DW6000 modem, and it finally timed out, but I find no indications of what could have been the problem.  The latest data transfer at 03:10 UTC succeeded, and web browsing is working fine.

11: RADAR, Site ISS2 Onion Road, Thu 02-Mar-2006 01:06:10 GMT, Parameter change
Small change to parameters to match MISS

Reduced Coh Avg slightly to widen velocity aliasing.  0:50 UT.

K Drive was disconnected for about an hour after generator service
(see previous message).



10: GENERATOR, Site ISS2 Onion Road, Thu 02-Mar-2006 00:54:11 GMT, Generator Service and network problems
Generator Service

System shut down for about an hour from 23UT (Mar 1).
When powered back up Motsat claims to have a link,
but web browsing not working and data probably not transferring.

Had to restore K drive manually.




9: RADAR, Site ISS2 Onion Road, Tue 28-Feb-2006 22:38:39 GMT, Profiler parameters and k drive
Profiler parameters and K Drive

Profiler paraameters:  some velocity folding (eg around 21:20UT) so 
adjusted parameters so that velocity aliasing is now 15 m/s.  
Also increased hgts to 6km.

A little occasional RFI (eg at 21:20). 
The surface group may be using data links at 900MHz that may
be causing some of the RFI.

K Drive.  Some problems with K drive not automatically connecting after
boot.  Gary rebooted prof PC several times trying to fix.
For now we need to manually connect the drive after each boot.

Gary also did work on network timer client on prof PC.


8: RADAR, Site ISS2 Onion Road, Sun 26-Feb-2006 23:34:27 GMT, Profiler directions fixed
Brisk southerlies all day - seen by MAPR and MISS,
but ISS2 180 degrees out.  
Actually 175 deg out after compass recalibrated.
Fixed 23 UT.

Also altered beam sequence to N, E, S, W.



7: DAILY, Site ISS2 Onion Road, Sat 25-Feb-2006 21:59:02 GMT, Setup continued
Setup finished at this site (ISS2)

Started system around 21:15 UT

Initially consensus files weren't transferring over from the profiler.
Opening explorer on the prof pc initially showed k drive on data manager
on available, but after a few seconds it opened by itself.
Consensus files now transferring okay.

Camo net install

Checking directions on profiler, they seem to be out - recheck tomorrow.
The X-37 side was set up as 116 deg, I'm reading 112 deg so that's just 4 deg.
However bearings on Manazar and radio tower are 3 or 4 deg out
as compared to a topo map.  I'm going to compare this compass
with the MAPR compass to recheck directions.

 

6: SURFACE, Site ISS2 Onion Road, Sat 25-Feb-2006 21:14:54 GMT,
Net Rad domes were replaced before system was brought up at 21:15z 2-25-06
5: DAILY, Site ISS2 Onion Road, Wed 15-Feb-2006 17:43:58 GMT, ISS2 Onion Road
Today we have seen wind gusts up to 40 mph. Some cloud cover over the mountains, otherwise clear skies overhead. All surface sensors OK. Profiler test started.  Motosat almost up.