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