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258 Sat 29-Apr-2006ISFF media daycentralpoulos
256 Fri 28-Apr-2006Central Guy Tensionscentralgolubieski
228 Sat 22-Apr-2006Boom angles, centralcentralpoulos
227 Sat 22-Apr-2006Guy wire tensionssouthpoulos
221 Fri 21-Apr-2006Central pocketec downloadcentralpoulos
205 Tue 18-Apr-2006West guy wire tension check & re-tensionwestpoulos
167 Sun 09-Apr-2006guy wire tensionsallmilitzer
142 Mon 03-Apr-2006retensioned guy wirescentralhorst
122 Wed 29-Mar-2006guy wire tensionsallhorst
105 Sat 25-Mar-2006replaced fence battery at west towerwesthorst
84 Mon 20-Mar-2006How to restart the dsm_serverbasesemmer
73 Sat 18-Mar-2006Central visitcentralsemmer
64 Thu 16-Mar-2006west visitwestoncley
63 Thu 16-Mar-2006South visitsouthoncley
62 Thu 16-Mar-2006Central visitcentraloncley
61 Thu 16-Mar-2006one-time tasksalloncley
46 Mon 13-Mar-2006Daily statusalloncley
44 Sun 12-Mar-2006south visitsouthagee
42 Sun 12-Mar-2006west visitwestoncley
41 Sat 11-Mar-2006Daily statusalloncley
37 Fri 10-Mar-2006Daily statusalloncley
34 Thu 09-Mar-2006Daily statusalloncley
33 Thu 09-Mar-2006Daily statusalloncley
30 Tue 07-Mar-2006Daily statusalloncley
23 Sun 05-Mar-2006site visitsalloncley
22 Sun 05-Mar-2006Proceduresalloncley
20 Wed 01-Mar-2006Daily statusalloncley
19 Wed 01-Mar-2006west visitwestoncley
18 Wed 01-Mar-2006south visitcentraloncley
17 Wed 01-Mar-2006central servicecentraloncley
13 Tue 28-Feb-2006Daily statusalloncley
12 Tue 28-Feb-2006guy wire tensionsallagee
9 Mon 27-Feb-2006Old status messagesalloncley
4 Mon 27-Feb-2006Daily statusalloncley
1 Tue 21-Feb-2006Logbook creatednoneaster


258: LOG, Site central, Sat 29-Apr-2006 15:35:01 PDT, ISFF media day
On late 28 Apr 2006 Poulos and Golubieski took the Haines-Stiles videographer to the Central site. In addition to larger questions regarding the overall success of T-REX an extensive set of high resolution (digital camera quality) video was taken of the Central tower and the OTIHS 5m tower nearby. Detailed pictures of the hot-film anemometers, motors and operations were taken. Kevin said that these were 'cool'. An amusing experience to say the least.
256: LOG, Site central, Fri 28-Apr-2006 17:22:32 PDT, Central Guy Tensions
Tensions on 30M tower

NW guys (inner - outer): 400,340,310,300
SE guys (inner - outer): 340,260,250,300
SW guys (inner - outer): 400,320,275,275

Taken approx. 1630 local time.



228: LOG, Site central, Sat 22-Apr-2006 16:04:43 PDT, Boom angles, central
The boom angles at Central were shot on Saturday morning and Sunday morning (2 and 5 m).

Sonic  Solar   Solar   Targeted     Boom     Corrtn     Boom angle
 Hgt    Time    Azim    Value       Angle    to angl  after correction
------ ------ ------- ------------ -------   -------- ----------------
  1 Sat 1120  134.25d  134d 35.7m  88d 42m    -20.7m   88d 21.3m
  2 Sun 1005  112.11d  112d 27.5m  87d 47.5m  -20.9m   87d 26.6m
  3 Sat 1120  134.25d  134d 35.7m  88d 42m    -20.7m   88d 21.3m
  5 Sun 1025  116.92d  117d 03m    85d 18.5m   -7.8m   85d 10.7m
 10 Sat 1045  122.69d  122d 20.5m  92d 28m    +20.9m   92d 48.9m
 15 Sat 0955  110.21d  110d 44m    92d 59m    -31.4m   92d 27.6m
 20 Sat 1100  127.29d  127d 18m    93d 52.5m   -0.6m   93d 51.9m
 25 Sat 0955  110.21d  110d 44m    92d 59m    -31.4m   92d 27.6m
 30 Sat 1100  127.29d  127d 18m    93d 52.5m   -0.6m   93d 51.9m

227: LOG, Site south, Sat 22-Apr-2006 16:00:35 PDT, Guy wire tensions
With a light breeze from the south, tensions at the south tower were: 

Guy     Orientation
 #     N     SE    SW
 1    330   375   400
 2    275   320   300
 3    290   375   340
 4    280   325   300
221: LOG, Site central, Fri 21-Apr-2006 11:39:07 PDT, Central pocketec download
Central data from 4/11-4/21 was downloaded to exthd7 on aster on 4/21.

The pocketec from the hot-film system is now at central as local storage.

205: LOG, Site west, Tue 18-Apr-2006 15:04:35 PDT, West guy wire tension check & re-tension
Militzer and Poulos, West site visit, 1600 LT, Mon 17 Apr

Guy-wire tensions
Southeast
1 375
2 320
3 360
4 310

Southwest
1 340
2 295
3 290
4 295

North
1 340
2 280
3 280 (retensioned to 300)
4 280 (retensioned to 300)

Note on North 3/4. They were retensioned to ~ 325 and then backed off after
some minor bowing was noted.
167: LOG, Site all, Sun 09-Apr-2006 17:48:03 PDT, guy wire tensions
Measured guy wire tensions yesterday/today, April 8-9

West	   From,March30th	Apr9th, west breeze
	se	ne	w	se	n	sw
1	395	350	360	380	375	350
2	330	285	300	275	280	300
3	395	300	290	350	375	300
4	350	300	300	300	300	300

Central	   From,March30th	Apr8th, lt south breeze
	se	n	sw	se	n	sw
1	430	460	435	410	460	440
2	330	320	350	320	300	350
3	300	345	315	310	340	310
4	305	295	310	340	300	330

South	   From,March30th	Apr9th, 
	se	n	sw	se	n	sw
1	400	355	420	400	340	390
2	350	300	300	340	300	300
3	400	280	350	390	290	340
4	340	300	310	325	310	300

142: LOG, Site central, Mon 03-Apr-2006 15:39:48 PDT, retensioned guy wires
Tightened the N and SE, highest guy wires by two turns.  Could not tighten
the SW guy wire because the turnbuckle is fully compressed.

After tensioning and with a strong south wind:

N = 290 lbs
SW = 340 
SE = 320
122: LOG, Site all, Wed 29-Mar-2006 11:44:56 PST, guy wire tensions
Measured guy wire tensions today, March 30:

West
	se	ne	w
1	395	350	360
2	330	285	300
3	395	300	290
4	350	300	300

Central
1	430	460	435
2	330	320	350
3	300	345	315
4	305	295	310

South
1	400	355	420
2	350	300	300
3	400	280	350
4	340	300	310
105: LOG, Site west, Sat 25-Mar-2006 16:38:08 PST, replaced fence battery at west tower
Since we saw cows yesterday near the west tower, I put a fresh battery on the
electric.fence.
84: LOG, Site base, Mon 20-Mar-2006 16:51:26 PST, How to restart the dsm_server
If you get a response of connection refused to data_stats sock:localhost,
check ps -ef |grep dsm_server. If not running, log in as root and run
/etc/init.d/nids restart. This should get the dsm_server running again.

NOTE: if the wireless link is down, dsm_server will not get going.


73: LOG, Site central, Sat 18-Mar-2006 14:13:47 PST, Central visit
Tom and I went to central to do a few tasks. This included getting a soil sample, relocating the solar panel a logger 1 and checking the fuel cell. This took place around noon.

64: LOG, Site west, Thu 16-Mar-2006 15:00:53 PST, west visit
- mounted MetOne aerosal counter at 15m (TRH is at 14.5m).  Returned at 14:30
to complete cabling
- took gravimetric soil sample.

63: LOG, Site south, Thu 16-Mar-2006 14:58:19 PST, South visit
- Replaced faulty 15m TRH (704) with (tested and working) spare 008.  This one
is working.
- Recleaned krypton which again lowered voltage from 0x5a00 to 0x4f00!  We'll
need to get new, fresh water and swabs and try again.
- Took soil sample (see comment #60)

62: LOG, Site central, Thu 16-Mar-2006 14:56:48 PST, Central visit
- Replaced empty H2 cylinder with full.
- Cylinder we're running on is at 1360psi -- about twice the usage compared to
the last 2 nights.


61: LOG, Site all, Thu 16-Mar-2006 14:36:29 PST, one-time tasks
Just a brief task list, to aid the transition from me to Semmer:

West:
- can remove parabolic antenna, but left in place in case the signal to south
deteriorates (now 18db, was 40db with parabolic) and we don't need the 180deg
antenna for the school connection.
- unused 30m etherant to bulgin cable is still strapped all the way up the 
tower.
- partially-used hydrogen bottle can be removed (unless power at west goes
bad, now that we've added Shane's extra 6W -- but we just decreased station
power by ~3W by installing the beacon photocell)
- electric fence is almost completely dead.  If you want it running, need to
replace battery (at least).  It isn't clear that it is needed anyway, though.

South&West:
- maxstream 915M radios should be replaced by 2.4G radios (but need to be
configured first).

Central,South,West:
- should add code to CR10x to power down radios when not transmitting.  Central
a1&a2 batteries are not doing well and will need to be replaced.
- need to shoot boom angles when theodolite is repaired

Central:
- chem shelter could be removed
- 15m sonic doesn't recover on power up.  Needs "&", "T", "??", "D" typed at
it through rserial.  [we discussed checking settings, but haven't yet done]
- one H2 cylinder (being used) is about half full, other is completely full.

Base:
- 3 empty sonic boxes could be moved to REAL seatainer
- big winch under steps could be moved to REAL seatainer (for security)
- "Data tapes" plastic case on shelf has 2 TRHs to be repaired.  One is 
probably a bad 50Y connection.  The other probably is a dead fan.
- have spare csat3 from Inyo County (via Greg), but not wired for us (power
through 232 connector).
- printing doesn't work through aster docking station.  Have connected printer
to ripple, but won't work if ripple is at central.



46: LOG, Site all, Mon 13-Mar-2006 09:13:01 PST, Daily status
ISFF Daily status 12 Mar 2006 [written next morning]

Weather: Clear and cold in the valley.  Occasional snow flurries in the \
Sierra foothills.  IOP#4 to start late Monday.

                Central         South           West     HotFilm    Base
Networking: [all up]
                ok              ok              ok       ok         ok
       
Data systems: [all up and archiving data on site]
                ok              ok              ok	 ok [but analog dies]

Sonic anemometer [need boom angles shot]
30m             ok              ok              ok
25m             ok              ok              ok
20m             ok              ok              ok
15m             ok              ok              ok
10m             ok              ok              ok
5m              ok              ok              ok

Krypton hygrometer [last cleaned]:
30m             5 Mar           5 Mar           4 Mar
5m              5 Mar           5 Mar           4 Mar

TRH:
30m             ok              ok              ok
15m             ok              ok              ok
5m              ok              ok              ok

Rad [Rnet, Rsw.in, Rsw.out, Rlw.in, Rlw.out] [need to clean south]
                Tcase calib off ok              ok
		
		
Soil [Gsoil, Tsoil, Qsoil, Cpsoil]
                ok              ok              TP01 bad [logger cabling?]

[Sensors unique to specific sites:]

Rain
                up

Licor [h2o, co2]
                ok

Aerosol [not intalled, awaiting return from manufacturer]
                                                X

Hot-film sonic anemometers [all deployed Sunday]
3.5m            ok
2.5m            ok
1.5m            ok

Hot-films [mounted, but working on motor control]
3.5m            X
2.5m            ok!
1.5m            X

Power [all stations stayed up (but central died Sat/Sun night.]
source:         solar+H2           solar           solar

COMMENTS:

A big hotfilm day.  All 3 hotfilm systems and sonic anemometers installed.
Middle probe started and collected data.  Top probe installed and briefly
collected data until motor crunched it -- now there are no spares.  Data system
is losing ~10% data over the network.  Hopefully data being archived at the
site, though no way to tell at the moment.  Analog data collection (the 
hotfilms) also dies sometimes -- have had to manually monitor and reset
data acquisition.

In other news:
- Added replaced 5 old batteries by 7 new batteries at central, which kept it up
over Sun/Mon night.  There is no evidence that the fuel cell is being used
(isn't using H2, isn't releasing water, central died even with fuel cell 
"connected" Sat/Sun night).  Reason unknown.
- Have added beacon photocell switches to all 3 sites to save power, but west's
didn't work.  We left it still continously powered on (aux2).
- Still don't know why Tcase is strange at central.  Voltages reported by the
logger are signficantly different, so it would appear to be a cabling problem.
This is the most serious [standard] data problem, since it causes us to not 
have 4-component radiation (for the energy balance) or longwave radiative
flux divergence data.  We still have a (lower-quality) net radiometer at 
central for the energy balance. 4-component systems at south and west are ok.
- West TP01 still bad.  Must be bulkhead cabling inside logger box.  Will try
to fix today [mon]


44: LOG, Site south, Sun 12-Mar-2006 16:44:19 PST, south visit
visited south ~3:30-4:15:

guy wire tensions measured.

TRIME: 4.0/2.0/2.5%

Radiometers cleaned first thing.

Installed beacon switch onto aux1.

42: LOG, Site west, Sun 12-Mar-2006 16:34:05 PST, west visit
Visited west ~9:30-10:10.  

Tried to fix TP01 -- don't yet know if I did anything.  Only real change was
reseating +12 SW control wire.

Installed beacon controller, but didn't work.  Kept plugged into (unswitched)
aux2.

Cleaned radiometers, though somewhat cloudy.



41: LOG, Site all, Sat 11-Mar-2006 19:46:38 PST, Daily status
ISFF Daily status 11 Mar 2006

Weather: Clear in the valley/snow flurries in the Sierra.  No IOP until at
least Monday night.

                Central         South           West     HotFilm    Base
Networking: [hot film network now running]
                ok              ok              ok       ok         ok
       
Data systems: [all normal and archiving data on site]
                ok              ok              ok

Sonic anemometer [need boom angles shot]
30m             ok              ok              ok
25m             ok              ok              ok
20m             ok              ok              ok
15m             ok              ok              ok
10m             ok              ok              ok
5m              ok              ok              ok

Krypton hygrometer [last cleaned]:
30m             5 Mar           5 Mar           4 Mar
5m              5 Mar           5 Mar           4 Mar

TRH:
30m             ok              ok              ok
15m             ok              ok              ok
5m              ok              ok              ok

Rad [Rnet, Rsw.in, Rsw.out, Rlw.in, Rlw.out] [all need to be cleaned]
                Tcase calib off ok              ok
		cleaned 3/11
		
Soil [Gsoil, Tsoil, Qsoil, Cpsoil]
                ok              ok              TP01 replaced

[Sensors unique to specific sites:]

Rain
                up

Licor [h2o, co2]
                ok

Aerosol [not intalled, awaiting return from manufacturer]
                                                X

Hot-film sonic anemometers [will be installed tomorrow!]
3.5m            X
2.5m            X
1.5m            X

Hot-films [will be installed tomorrow!]
3.5m            X
2.5m            X
1.5m            X

Power [all stations stayed up]
source:         solar+H2           solar           solar

COMMENTS:

Things mostly looking up!

Serviced central -- cleaned rads, checked power, checked logger wiring.  All
seem ok.  However radiometer Tcase values are still strange.  It isn't (just) a 
calibration issue, since the voltages are also quite different 
(e.g. 1.1/1.6/1.7 V).  This is our biggest data puzzle at the moment.

Installed new TP01 at west.  Didn't seem to help -- must be a logger wiring
problem.

Attended my first operations meeting!

Back to central late in day after John arrived.  Installed hot-film data system
and network (also associated laptop in base).  Now just need to hang the 
anemometers themselves.

John also installed the beacon photodiode switch at central, which should 
save us a bit of power.  Will do the other sites tomorrow.

P.S. Thanks for the rest of the care packages via John, folks!  (But why a
painted red and stencilled box??)

37: LOG, Site all, Fri 10-Mar-2006 19:16:36 PST, Daily status
ISFF Daily status 10 Mar 2006

Weather: Still windy most of the day.  IOP#3 ended.

                Central         South           West            Base
Networking: [our problems appear now to be solved]
                ok              ok              ok              ok
       
Data systems: [all normal and archiving data on site]
                ok              ok              ok

Sonic anemometer [need boom angles shot]
30m             ok              ok              ok
25m             ok              ok              ok
20m             ok              ok              ok
15m             ok              ok              ok
10m             ok              ok              ok
5m              ok              ok              ok

Krypton hygrometer [last cleaned]:
30m             5 Mar           5 Mar           4 Mar
5m              5 Mar           5 Mar           4 Mar

TRH:
30m             ok              ok              ok
15m             ok              ok              ok
5m              ok              ok              ok

Rad [Rnet, Rsw.in, Rsw.out, Rlw.in, Rlw.out] [all need to be cleaned]
                Tcase calib off ok            ok
		
Soil [Gsoil, Tsoil, Qsoil, Cpsoil]
                ok              ok              TP01 bad

[Sensors unique to specific sites:]

Rain
                up

Licor [h2o, co2]
                ok

Aerosol [not intalled, awaiting return from manufacturer]
                                                X

Hot-film sonic anemometers [not installed, waiting for hotfilms.]
3.5m            X
2.5m            X
1.5m            X

Hot-films [not installed, John drives them out Friday; will install Sun]
3.5m            X
2.5m            X
1.5m            X

Power [all stations stayed up]
source:         solar+H2           solar           solar

COMMENTS:

Found that the two single radiometer loggers had died overnight (one probably
died earlier) due to drained batteries.  Swapped batteries and revived.  
Unknown why the lowest drain systems failed before the other 2.  Also 
unknown why they drained in the first place with solar panels.  Old data show
that a2 died several days ago and a1's battery has been getting weak.  Perhaps
a1&a2's batteries just started out with poor charge.

Tested 60W fuel in trailer -- seemed fine, except for one pair of plates.  Have
reinstalled at central as a second input.  Rather strange cabling should be
revisited.

Checked TPO1 wiring at west.  Seemed fine, no sign of cable damage. Data show
that this has never worked.  A new probe is on the way with John.  We will
also compare the logger wiring to central and/or south's.


34: LOG, Site all, Thu 09-Mar-2006 17:58:40 PST, Daily status
ISFF Daily status 09 Mar 2006 [

Weather: Quite windy most of the day (from the west).  IOP#3 going on.

                Central         South           West            Base
Networking
                ok              ok              ok              ok
                                                                (now have internet!)

Data systems:
                ok              ok              ok

Sonic anemometer [need boom angles shot]
30m             ok              ok              ok
25m             ok              ok              ok
20m             ok              ok              ok
15m             ok              ok              ok
10m             ok              ok              ok
5m              ok              ok              ok

Krypton hygrometer [last cleaned]:
30m             5 Mar           5 Mar           4 Mar
5m              5 Mar           5 Mar           4 Mar

TRH:
30m             ok              ok              ok
15m             ok              ok              ok
5m              ok              ok              ok

Rad [Rnet, Rsw.in, Rsw.out, Rlw.in, Rlw.out]
                10m look odd    ok              Rlw looks odd
		maybe dirt?			maybe real?
Soil [Gsoil, Tsoil, Qsoil, Cpsoil]
                ok              ok              ok? [check TP01 again]

[Sensors unique to specific sites:]

Rain
                up

Licor [h2o, co2]
                ok

Aerosol [not intalled, awaiting return from manufacturer]
                                                X

Hot-film sonic anemometers [not installed, waiting for hotfilms.]
3.5m            X
2.5m            X
1.5m            X

Hot-films [not installed, John drives them out Friday; will install Sun]
3.5m            X
2.5m            X
1.5m            X

Power
source:         solar           solar           solar
                (all stations stayed up)

COMMENTS:

Our final day playing with network issues.  Moved etherant at the school to get
a somewhat better signal (8, rather than 4db).  Replaced router with earlier
Dlink and got internet service to entire .14 subnet.  Installed an etherant
at the base to get the .14 subnet on an 8-port hub here.  Changed aster to
connect to this .14 subnet hub.  Gave an etherant configured for .14 to ASU.
Their internet connection now works.  Reconfigured the REAL etherant for .14
as well.  Thus, everyone should be able to connect to the internet from 
Independence.  We haven't yet tested connections originating from outside.

Still have TPOP crashes (about 6 today).  Despite these, and other network
outages while we were changing things today, all stations stayed up, recording
data locally on site.
 
33: LOG, Site all, Thu 09-Mar-2006 17:57:45 PST, Daily status
ISFF Daily status 08 Mar 2006 [sent by e-mail yesterday, but only just now
entered into logbook.]

Weather: Mostly clear, strong winds in the morning changed to light
in the afternoon.  IOP#3 begins tomorrow

                Central         South           West            Base
Networking
                ok              ok              ok              ok
                                                                (but no internet)
                [see COMMENTS below]

Data systems:
                ok              ok              ok

Sonic anemometer [need boom angles shot]
30m             ok              ok              ok
25m             ok              ok              ok
20m             ok              ok              ok
15m             ok              ok              ok
10m             ok              ok              ok
5m              ok              ok              ok

Krypton hygrometer [last cleaned]:
30m             5 Mar           5 Mar           4 Mar
5m              5 Mar           5 Mar           4 Mar

TRH:
30m             ok              ok              ok
15m             ok              ok              ok
5m              ok              ok              ok

Rad [Rnet, Rsw.in, Rsw.out, Rlw.in, Rlw.out]
                ok              ok              ok

Soil [Gsoil, Tsoil, Qsoil, Cpsoil]
                ok              ok              ok? [check TP01 again]

[Sensors unique to specific sites:]

Rain
                up

Licor [h2o, co2]
                ok

Aerosol [not intalled, awaiting return from manufacturer]
                                                X

Hot-film sonic anemometers [not installed, waiting for hotfilms.  Broken
        sonic appears to have revived in the base, also have spare from
        Inyo county]
3.5m            X
2.5m            X
1.5m            X

Hot-films [not installed, John drives them out Friday; will install Sat/Sun]
3.5m            X
2.5m            X
1.5m            X

Power
source:         solar           solar           solar
                (central stayed up overnight, new batteries coming with John)

COMMENTS:

A MUCH better day.  Central did not lose power overnight.  Worked on networking
mostly.  Problem with AP24 was a change to the wrong WiFi encryption type
(should have been WEP) -- somehow we missed this yesterday.  Brought the AP24
down from the tower to work on it, made the fix, and reinstalled (now with
all CAT5 cable, so its wired interface should work at 100BaseT).  Had to visit
south to power cycle its etherant.  With this, had WiFi LAN working again at
14:30.  All stations appear to have saved their data locally during this network
outage, so no data were lost.

Continued to work on the school connection.  Managed by the end of the day to
have systems on the .14 subnet able to name-serve over the internet, but
couldn't get much else working.  Presumably, the WiFi connection is still weak
enough (4db) that significant traffic can't make it through.  We will try a
last time to adjust the antenna tomorrow, but our Boulder teammates have begun
exploring options (DSL/cable to the base).  The local WiFi contact has offered
to get REAL connected for $1700 at high-bandwidth.  It is unknown if we would/
could add on to that connection.  We also have had a routing problem that prevents
systems on the .12 subnet (e.g. the aster base computer) from being able to
use the school connection, but I think we have a workaround to connect "aster"
directly to the .14 subnet.

Also (with John's help) was able to begin testing the "bad" sonic that
was giving 8000 values when at 30m.central.  It started working fine
in the trailer, and "??" reports that it thinks it is the correct
serial number (0672).  Perhaps it was just a dirty connection that one
more reseating fixed?  I'll go through John's cheatsheet tomorrow to
verify the version4 code download and do an even better cleaning of
the connection.  In the meantime, Greg has borrowed another CSAT3 from
Inyo County that could be used as a spare.  Thus, we now have all the sonics
we need for the hot-film system when it arrives.

A note for Gordon: we have had to restart the dsm process on "aster"
(/etc/init.d/nids restart) about once a day for the last 3 days.  Presumably,
the flaky network has caused it to crash?  I also thought I found a correlation
with TPOP crashes, but at least one exception to my theory has occurred.

30: LOG, Site all, Tue 07-Mar-2006 18:05:41 PST, Daily status
ISFF Daily status 07 Mar 2006

Weather: Partly cloudy, cold&windy late in the day.  IOP#2 ended 03Z (last 
night).

		Central		South		West		Base
Networking
		ok		down		down		up
								(but no internet)

Data systems:
		up		on		on

Sonic anemometer [need boom angles shot]
30m		ok		ok		ok
25m		ok		ok		ok
20m		ok		ok		ok
15m		ok		ok		ok
10m		ok		ok		ok
5m		ok		ok		ok

Krypton hygrometer [last cleaned]:
30m		5 Mar		5 Mar		4 Mar
5m		5 Mar		5 Mar		4 Mar

TRH:
30m		ok		ok		ok
15m		ok		ok		ok
5m		ok		ok		ok

Rad [Rnet, Rsw.in, Rsw.out, Rlw.in, Rlw.out]
		ok		ok		ok

Soil [Gsoil, Tsoil, Qsoil, Cpsoil]
		ok		ok		ok? [check TP01 again]

[Sensors unique to specific sites:]

Rain
		up

Licor [h2o, co2]
		ok

Aerosol [not intalled, FedExed today to manufacturer to set to 1 samp/s]
						X

Hot-film sonic anemometers [not installed, awaiting hot-films/one is broken]
3.5m		X
2.5m		X
1.5m		X

Hot-films [not installed, John drives them out tomorrow; will install Sat?]
3.5m		X
2.5m		X
1.5m		X

Power
source:		solar 		solar		solar
		(has died in early AM after clouds -- just central; new 
		batteries coming with John)

COMMENTS:

Central died last night (probably low battery).  15m sonic didn't come back up.
usb drive didn't come back up (but we were archiving over the WiFi network).
Visited station and reset drive.  Reset sonic using rserial.

Rest of the day spent trying to get school network up.  Put 180deg antenna at
west on AP24 external port.  Was able to get south, but only 12db, rather than
40db using parabolic antenna.  (Also not as much as the 20db I got yesterday 
with a roaming etherant.)  Eventually removed one RG cable which may have 
increased S/N by ~2db.

At school, redirected etherant to point to west, configured to AP24, .14 subnet.
Only 4db (eventually 5-6db).  Swapped etherants, changed RF channels, no change.

During RF channel change tests, AP24 int(!) went down, all settings seem 
reasonable as viewed with either WWW interface or winbox, but have not been 
able to revive the connection back to TPOP at base.  Thus, at the end of the 
day, can't ping west or south.

Overall, a change for the worse on all fronts!

P.S. While at west and central, checked guy wire tension (all somewhat lower).
Also took TRIME measurements at west (3.7-5.0%).  Also, played with whether
the sonics can sense someone on the tower by deliberate twisting of the tower
30 times at 11:27AM.  The RF link probably was down then, but hopefully the
usb disk has a record of this.
  
23: LOG, Site all, Sun 05-Mar-2006 12:40:57 PST, site visits
Spent the morning at all 3 sites:

Central ~9:00-10:15:
- Tried and failed to get good data from 30m sonic
- Replace 30m sonic with what was removed from 20m yesterday
- Cleaned krypton at 5m at 10:02 (since read <0.2V in the data files last 
night).  Note that all other kryptons had been cleaned when swapping sonics
with serializers.

South ~10:30-11:15:
- Swapped out 15m sonic
- Swapped in 5m sonic
- checked that all solar panels were connected

Base ~11:30:
- Restarted sonics at 5m and 15m at central via rserial [shouldn't have needed
this]
- Restarted sonic at 15m south via rserial [also shouldn't have needed]

West ~12:00:
- checked that all solar panels were connected

Central ~12:15: (simultaneous with West visit, using 2 vehicles)
- installed 5th battery box, since Central has been dying in the early morning
the last 2 days (at least).


22: LOG, Site all, Sun 05-Mar-2006 12:25:04 PST, Procedures
A mini-cheat sheet:

Base:
- log in [if needed]: "aster", 
- check bison "Terrabeam navigator" for all known etherants+AP24 okay
- scan /var/log/messages + /var/log/isff.log
- "data_stats sock:localhost" check for all channels, data rate, packet size
- ls -l /data/projects/TREX for latest file size increase
- if needed, edits to $ISFF/projects/TREX/ISFF/ops/ops0/ads3.xml and same 
edits in ops1/ads3.xml, since some programs still use ops0 [a bug]
- "ps -ef | grep dsm" should have a "dsm_server" process running
   if not, run "/etc/init.d/nids restart"
   if this does not work, then perhaps all wireless links are down
- "ps -ef | grep stats" should have a "statsproc sock:localhost:30000"
  running to create covars and write to 
  /usr/local/src/isff/aster/projects/TREX/netcdf/sff_20060403_000000.nc
  where here "403" is April 3.  If not, see logbook entry 138

Important files/directories:
- $ASTER=/usr/local/src/isff/aster
- $ISFF=/usr/local/isff
- $ISFF/projects/TREX/isff/ops has two directories, ops0/ and ops1/, each
	of which contain ads3.xml files with the new-style project config.
	Make any changes to both (until further notice from Gordon).
- /var/log/messages and /var/log/isff.log have error messages
- /var/named has ethernet address in files 192.168.12, 192.168.14, isff.ucar.edu
	that may need to be modified.

Stations:
[Toughbook booting:]
- Hold power lever down ~2 sec
- After ~20 sec, down-arrow 4 times to "win2000"
- After a while, upon prompt ctl-alt-del to get login window
- log in: "lroot", 
- After another while, when win settled, click on "ProcommPlus"
- After yet another while, click on "19200" on bottom title, select "115200"
- hit  in main window 
[Now talking to viper:]
- log in: "root",
- "ps -ef | grep dsm" [should be 8 processes]
- "ping 192.168.12.1" [the ISFF base, via WiFi]
- "df" [should see 2 disks, including /var/tmp/usb]
- "rserial /dev/ttySxx localhost" [to check sensors], but often crashes nids, 
so follow by "/etc/init.d/nids restart"
- "exit" to logout upon leaving station
[Toughbook shutdown:]
-  
-   

GPS: (what I've been doing)
- insert memory stick
- click on "TREX" icon
- copy day directories, e.g. "062" to memory stick
- take memory stick to hotel, start VPN, scp memory stick files to 
/scr/tmp/
- when memory stick full, follow instruction sheet to copy to CDR, then erase.

New GPS transfer method, (replacing last 2 steps above):
- plug memory stick in lower USB port on aster
- when window pops up with message about LEXAR_MEDIA, click OK
The copy files for day 'xxx', compare sizes (esp. if it's already on the
data disk and asks you whether to overwrite that.  Note that this is
because sometimes a day appears missing on the gps, and the gps machine
probably put it in the previous, or next, day's directory),
finally remove the files from usb stick, and umount it.
- cp -r /media/LEXAR_MEDIA/xxx /data/projects/diff_gps
- ls /media/LEXAR_MEDIA/xxx /data/projects/diff_gps/xxx
- rm -r /media/LEXAR_MEDIA
- umount /media/LEXAR_MEDIA
At midnight, the files are copied to /scr/tmp/oncley/TREX/indep_gps.
-

MONITORING:

Ongoing:
- look at terrabeam network status [laptop on shelf]
- ping central, ping west, ping south
- data_stats sock:localhost [on aster]
- data_dump -d 1 -s xx -p sock:localhost [on aster], using sid+1(+2+3+4) shown
	by data_stats
- look at cockpit, check_aster [on ripple for hotfilm]

Daily:
- backup copies of files: [sometime after 00Z of day xxyy]
	cd /data/projects/TREX
	cp isff_2006xxyy* /mnt/exthd8/projects/TREX
	cp isff_2006xxyy* /mnt/exthd9/projects/TREX
	df . [if >90%, delete a few days with: rm isff_2006aabb* -- obviously,
		double check that these files are on exthd8&9!!]

Weekly:
- copy uncopied GPS files to memory stick, network copy to Boulder? 

Station visit [weekly]:
- clean kryptons
- clean radiometers
- TRIME soil (and gravimetric?)
- check guy wire tension and adjust if needed 
    [log in $ASTER/projects/TREX/doc/TowerTensions.xls]
- check batteries in a1, a2 loggers at central, replace if needed (and recharge
	old ones in the base) [may not be needed if Steve changes logger
	code]
- check H2 level at central, change cylinders if needed.













20: LOG, Site all, Wed 01-Mar-2006 19:25:14 PST, Daily status
ISFF Daily status 01 Mar 2006

Weather: Clear today.  IOP started this afternoon.

		Central		South		West		Base
Networking
		ok (E'ant x1)	on (E'ant)	ok (AP24)	ok (TPOP x1)

Data systems:
		on		on		on

Sonic anemometer [need boom angles shot]
30m		reports 0	on/no kh2o	on/no kh2o
25m		on		on		on
20m		on		on		on
15m		on		on		on
10m		on		on		on
5m		on/no kh2o	on/no kh2o	on/no kh2o

Krypton hygrometer [last cleaned]: (but none connected to working serializer!)
30m		1 Mar		1 Mar		1 Mar
5m		1 Mar		1 Mar		1 Mar

TRH:
30m		ok		ok		ok
15m		ok		ok		ok
5m		ok		ok		ok

Rad [Rnet, Rsw.in, Rsw.out, Rlw.in, Rlw.out]
		dirt not up	ok		ok

Soil [Gsoil, Tsoil, Qsoil, Cpsoil]
		ok		ok		ok

[Sensors unique to specific sites:]

Rain
		ok [did 10 tip test today]

Licor [h2o, co2]
		ok

Aerosol [not intalled, needs manufacturer help to increase reporting rate]
						X

Hot-film sonic anemometers [not installed, awaiting hot-films and data system]
3.5m		X
2.5m		X
1.5m		X

Hot-films [not installed, being built/tested in Boulder]
3.5m		X
2.5m		X
1.5m		X

Power
source:		solar 		solar		solar
voltage:	13.24V 1 Mar	13.5V 26 Feb	13.37V 1 Mar


COMMENTS:

Started as a maintenance day, with cleaning of all rads and kryptons and
TRIME measurements (also most station voltages).  Isolated no data from 5m
sonic at central to shorted cable and blown fuse.  Replaced both.  (Now have
cable to be fixed.)

After lunch, we started looking at data.  30m sonic at central is reporting
0s (but does have a serializer).  15m sonic at central was in a strange state,
but was recoverable.  All other sonics were ok.  

Also found that one of the central radiation boxes (the bare dirt pyg) data 
are not being received.  Power seems ok.  We are guessing that it is a problem
with the Maxstream radio configuration.

HOWEVER, then looked at message lengths to check serializer positions.  Only
30m central (the bad sonic!) was correct.  2 serializers are even back in the
trailer now (they were awaiting use by the hot-films).  We are going to have
to do a massive exchange of pulling down sonics and swapping them (both heads
and boxes).  Fortunately, we still have the hot-film sonics to work with as
well.  This will require a full day to accomplish (with light winds).  Greg
and Vanda have agreed that this will be put off until the end of this IOP.

Even with all this, we may still end up with one bad sonic.  We do not have
any spares for this project, so this will have to be fixed.

Networking is now set up as we intend to be used for the rest of the project
with exceptions:
1. Sometimes our main access point dies for no apparent reason.  We changed
radio frequencies yesterday, which seemed to help, but it just died again.
2. We want a different cable at West to increase data throughput and/or
recovery from power cycles.  One has been purchased.
3. Etherants are now distributed to REAL and DLR.  REAL's has been installed.
 
Data systems are now operating, though perhaps not with the final code.  Data
are being archived both locally and over the network.

Station power using solar panels appears to be adequate (given that we had a
few cloudy days).  Work on getting the hydrogen fuel cells running remains
at a low priority.



19: LOG, Site west, Wed 01-Mar-2006 14:01:50 PST, west visit
West visit ~1230-1330

- cleaned rads
- cleaned kryptons
- TRIME readings: 11.2/7.7/9.7%
- aux1 voltage 13.37V



18: LOG, Site central, Wed 01-Mar-2006 14:00:30 PST, south visit
South visit ~11:30-12:40

- cleaned rads
- cleaned kryptons
- TRIME soil moisture 3.9/6.8/5.2%


17: LOG, Site central, Wed 01-Mar-2006 13:55:37 PST, central service
Visited central ~1000-1100
- 10 tips on rain gauge at 1002
- cleaned rads (except 10m)
- TRIME readings: gave "salinity too high", "no TDR signal", eventually got
readings of 20/23/40%.  (Use 40%??.)
- cleaned kryptons (5m is a hard reach)
- tried to level 5m csat better, but boom always droops (I suspect no pin in
yoke)
- diagnosed csat 5m problem as cable with a short.  Will replace on the way
to lunch
- measured aux1 voltage 13.24V


13: LOG, Site all, Tue 28-Feb-2006 17:32:04 PST, Daily status
ISFF Daily status 28 Feb 2006

Weather: Partly cloudy and cooler after last night's rain.  Not as dusty.

		Central		South		West		Base
Networking
		up (E'ant x1)	up (E'ant)	up (AP24)	up (TPOP x1)

Data systems:
		on		on		on

Sonic anemometer [need boom angles shot]
30m		on		on		on
25m		on		on		on
20m		on		on		on
15m		on		on		on
10m		on		on		on
5m		off		on		on

Krypton hygrometer [last cleaned]:
30m		on		on		on
5m		on		on		26 Feb

TRH:
30m		on		on		on
15m		on		on		on	
5m		on		on		on

Rad [Rnet, Rsw.in, Rsw.out, Rlw.in, Rlw.out]
		on		on		on

Soil [Gsoil, Tsoil, Qsoil, Cpsoil]
		on		on		on

[Sensors unique to specific sites:]

Rain
		on [should see something today]

Licor [h2o, co2]
		on

Aerosol [not intalled, needs manufacturer help to increase reporting rate]
						X

Hot-film sonic anemometers [not installed, awaiting hot-films and data system]
3.5m		X
2.5m		X
1.5m		X

Hot-films [not installed, being built/tested in Boulder]
3.5m		X
2.5m		X
1.5m		X

Power
source:		solar 		solar		solar
voltage:	13.1V 28 Feb	13.5V 26 Feb	13.4V 26 Feb


COMMENTS:

Boom angles shot today at Central, though theodolite not working well.  Might
have to be redone.

All standard sensors are up and all but one sonic have now been confirmed as
reporting.  We still do not have access to the data to evaluate quality.  

Networking is now set up as we intend to be used for the rest of the project
with exceptions:
1. We want a different cable at West to increase data throughput and/or
recovery from power cycles.
2. Etherants need to be distributed to REAL and DLR
 
Data systems are now operating, though perhaps not with the final code.  Data
should be being archived locally now.  We found that South's local storage had
never been installed, so its data set started an hour ago.  (3 hours into the
official operations period.)

Most sensors need standard service (cleaning and boom angles shot), which we've 
deliberately delayed until close to the start of operations.  We'll work on
these tasks tomorrow, in preparation for the IOP scheduled to start tomorrow 
night.

12: LOG, Site all, Tue 28-Feb-2006 16:59:59 PST, guy wire tensions
Guy Wire tensions

CENTRAL:	Initial	28 Feb
Wind?			W@8?
North
4		425	330
3		450	390
2		400	350
1		560	480
SouthWest
4		450	330
3		400	340
2		440	440
1		525	490
SouthEast
4		400	290
3		400	310
2		400	350
1		520	440

		


SOUTH:		Initial	27 Feb
Wind			S@8?
North
4		340     400
3		350	330
2		310	375
1		400	400
SouthWest
4		310	400
3		440	400
2		300	410
1		475	480
SouthEast
4		350	410
3		490	450
2		340	460
1		480	480
			retensioned


WEST		xx Feb	28 Feb
Wind			calm
North	
4		400	340
3		410	350
2		400	350
1		500	430
SouthWest
4		400	325
3		400	350
2		420	350
1		475	410
SouthEast
4		460	380
3		500	450
2		460	390
1		550	500



9: LOG, Site all, Mon 27-Feb-2006 20:42:26 PST, Old status messages
[Here are the e-mail status messages sent by various people during set-up,
prior to logbook being started.]


Status, 2/7/06 [semmer]

Kurt received a call this morning from the building inspector giving
us premission to start the tower installation. So we headed to the
south tower to install the anchors. The manta rays went in without any
trouble. We completed the six anchors in about 2 hours. From south we
headed to Independence for lunch then on to the central site. At
central the first 2 anchors went in without any problem. The next two
were not as easy. We had to pull out the 88' anchor twice before we
were able to get it in deep enough. The final two went in without any
problems.  Tomorrow we hope to get the west anchors in and possibly
start installing the west tower.


Status 2/08/2006 [semmer]

steve,

Since you talked to Kurt you have the latest update. The anchors at
west gave more problems than central. we got them in but not as deep
as we wanted; however, the pull test better than 8000 lbs. If things
continue as planned I could see us having a 3o meter tower up by
tomorrow.  Steve

PS - Kurt was going to call John to about adding two more of the solar panel charger boards in the battery box. One of the boxes sent out did not have the board in it so I would like to have a few spares. 

>> Hi Steve,
>> 
>> I was very glad to get Kurt's call that the anchors were done today.  
>> That must be a relief to everyone there and I've spread the news around 
>> here.
>> 
>> The driver called and plans to show up at 8:00 AM tomorrow to take the 
>> base trailer.  John is finalizing packing of the network stuff as I 
>> write this.  I've put a little note by the drill press to point you to 
>> the location of items that might not be obvious.
>> 
>> Good luck! See you soon...Steve


Status 2/13/2006 [semmer]

Friday: Finished the installation of the south tower. The fencing was
installed and the beacon. The dark horse still needs to be located.
The base station arrived today.

Saturday: Started installation on the west tower. Got up to 30 ft.

Sunday: Continued work on west tower. Ran into some problems with the
vertical alignment. This may have been due to two sets on guy wires
installed before the we tryed to align. At the end of the day the
tower was at 80 ft.

Plans for today: Finish off the west tower including the electricl
fence and the soil sensors. If time permits start on the central
tower.


Status 2/13/2006 [semmer]

Installation of the west tower infrastructure was finished today. This
included a final transect alignment of the tower along with setting
the guy wires to the proper tension. The electric fence was
installed. Also the 60 watt fuel was setup. It worked as expected. The
hydrogen bottle was attached, gas flow started, and the fuel cell
immediately put out 14 volts. I played around with the fans to try to
improve the output. The wiring in the box was changed so that an
external battery could be charged. The beacon light was attached to
provide a load. Tomorrow I will check how it is doing. Tomorrow's goal
is the central tower. Also we will have the building inspector check
out the south and west towers.


Status 2/14/2006 [semmer]

Work started on the central tower today. We got to 90' then the wind
started blowing making it too difficult to raise the gin
pole. Tomorrow we will finish off the central main tower and start
setting up the 10 meter and 5 meter ASTER towers. Testing of the
wireless communication may start tomorrow.
 
The building inspector checked out the south tower today. There were
no problems.


Status 2/15/06 [semmer]

Due to high winds today we were not able to finish the installation of
the central tower. So we spent most of the day at the base trailer
getting power hooked up, organizing, and working on the wireless
communication. The communication modules were checked out a the base
then one Etherant was taken to the South tower while a PAM tripod was
setup at the base to handle the 180 degree antenna. Unfortunately we
were not able to communicate between south and base. If the weather is
good tomorrow we will try a communication test with the TPOP at west.


Status 2/17 [Golubieski]

Dressed Central 30M tower.  Found out some CSAT booms do not fit
into our new boom clamps.  Also, the Krypton electronic box mounting
bracket did not work.  Need more room to mount the box on the inside
of the tower.  We ended up mounting the Krypton in the inside of the
tower but used quicklinks and zip ties.

105feet - Bridge H
29.98M - CSAT 0672, Krypton 1394, TRH ?.
24.90M - CSAT 1123
20.00M - CSAT 0674
15.00M - CSAT 0856, TRH ?.
10.00M - CSAT 0538


Status 2/18 [Golubieski]

Dressed West tower.  Some Krypton electronic boxes mounted on the
outside of tower.  We were short one CSAT cable to finish the cabling.
Noticed the safety-line took some damage during the past few days.
Some chaffing by guy bracket areas.  Need to keep an eye on it.  We
tightened the life-line and seems to be better?.but there is no wind.
Hung Terra-Beam at ~105 feet.  Got a wireless signal but did not see
it at the base station.

105feet - Bridge G
30.00M - CSAT 1124, Krypton 1258, TRH ?
25.00M - CSAT 1120
20.00M - CSAT 0800
15.00M - CSAT 0539, TRH ?
10.00M - CSAT 0536
4.97M - CSAT 0855, Krypton 1395, TRH ?
2.00M - Barometer U4110003


Status 2/19 [Golubieski]

Poor weather today.  Snow and wind.  Found out that Central tower had
no power when arriving in the morning.  Fuel cell stopped working
(Voller).  Restarted Voller but shut down in a matter of minutes?when
I unplugged cable from battery boxes.  Voller's battery was drained
completely.  Once the battery was charged Voller shut down NUMEROUS
times showing the "NO HYDROGEN" remark.  Kept trying to keep Voller
going but was unsuccessful.  Noticed that if we unplugged all
batteries but one the Voller stayed running.  It seems that we were
putting too much load on the fuel cell.  So we brought over three
solar panels to help charge three batteries and run beacon while the
Voller charged one battery and ran NDAQ.  Ran for hours when setting
up power this way.  Tomorrow we plan on moving some batteries to the
Voller power.  Hung barometer at 2.00 meters and connected it to the
NDAQ.  Hooked up GPS and did another test with Terra-Beam antenna.
Still reading "acceptable" to "good."  Will fine-tune when weather
permits.  Began making fence around whole area of Central.  Got most
of the way with remaining fence posts but it's not complete.  Ten
posts short.  Strung barbwire on two of the five sides.  Went to West
site and hung barometer at the 2.00meter level, ran the last CSAT
(4.97M) cable to make this tower complete.  Terra-Beam test showed
"good" signal, but it could get better.  Will align when weather
permits.  It seems that our test yesterday at the base did see West's
signal but Central must have been down.  Hydrogen tank at ~800psi.

Status 2/20 [golub...]

Sunny, cold and windy.  No tower climbing in the morning.
Worked on barbwire fence around Central site and erected 10M Aster
tower.  More problems with Voller.  Did not last throughout the
night.  Set up solar panels to charge
controller?controller(w/battery) to three batteries...fused load to
NDAQ?AUX2 running beacon?end of battery chain Voller is plugged in.
In the afternoon we dressed South 30M tower.  Lots of cows to keep
them company.

***Please notice that the heights given are at the TOP of the boom clamps.***

105feet ? Bridge H
30.00M ? CSAT 1119, Krypton 1393, TRH ?
24.99M ? CSAT 0674
20.00M ? CSAT 1122
15.07M ? CSAT 0537, TRH ?
10.00M ? CSAT 1121
5.03M ? CSAT 1117, Krypton 1391, TRH ?
2.00M ? CSAT S0610003


Status 2/21:  Day off. [Golub...]

Status 2/22: [Golub...]

Finished barbwire fence at Central.  Hung K&Z and electronic box
onto 10M tower.  Did not plug in/turn on box.  Waiting to mount solar
panel.  Voller still saying, ?NO HYDROGEN.?  Will bring back to base
station and see what could be the cause.  Went back to West tower to
replace Hydrogen cylinder.  When we arrived fuel cell was not working.
Used all of hydrogen in the cylinder.  We realized that this should
not be done.  Leave a little bit of hydrogen in the cylinder.
Replaced cylinder and could not get fuel cell to charge battery.
Realized it was a big load on the fuel cell.  Battery reading 6.0V.
So had car charge battery while fuel cell ran and charged another
battery to use for NDAQ. Tried just plugging NDAQ in directly but
couldn?t keep up.  Were able to run with battery (11.8V), NDAQ and
beacon?.but not long.  Enough to get our test done for antenna
testing.  Left site with this set-up but not getting signal from
Bridge G.  Beacon is still on.  Will check tomorrow.  Steve O. and
Gordon M. arrived.


Status 2/24 [oncley]

I'm sorry to say that this is my first status report from the field.
I'll try to improve the frequency (and settle on a [more complete]
format) soon:

- All ISFF towers are up (with the exception of the short [5m] tower
at Central that will hold the hot-film and other low-level sensors).
Building inspections have been completed.

- All sensors (flux, soil, radiation, etc.) are deployed with the
exception of:
   - Two pyrgeometers needing construction of mounting plates
   - All sensors on the afore-mentioned 5m tower
   - Shane's aerosol counter

- The ISFF base trailer is operational, especially now that most
sensor boxes have been moved to the extra REAL seatainer.  (Thanks,
Shane!)  I haven't actually heard whether our official written lease
for the trailer site was finalized, but we had many assurances that
we could procede.  We have had visits by ISS (who will install a
SODAR) and Leeds (who will install their dropsonde system).  We
expect to receive the G-V GPS base station tomorrow.  All of our
hydrogen fuel cell systems have had problems and all are now in our
base for testing.  We have installed solar panels at all 3 sites,
but have not yet evaluated if these will be sufficient to keep our
stations powered throughout the project.  Work on getting the fuel
cells back on line is continuing.  We finished configuration of our
long-range WiFi network today at our base.  Now deployment of some
more parts of this network (adding a repeater to West, reconfiguring
South) need to be done.  We won't be connected to the external
network until at least Monday, due to a lack of weekend access to
the school.

We still expect to have the vast majority of our equipment operational
by the start of T-REX.  Possible or known exceptions include:
- The hot-film system, which will be constructed next week in Boulder.  
We hope it will be operational by the 2nd week of T-REX.
- WWW-pages with ISFF data may be a few days late getting online
- Networking to the LIDAR sites probably won't occur before Tuesday.

- Station power may not be quite adequate for a while.  We may delay
deployment of our Li7500 fast-response H2O/CO2 sensor until we have a
better idea of our power system capacity.

- We still need to address some basic data quality issues: sensor
cleaning, sensor alignment documentation, sensor heights, etc.  Some
of these won't get done until a few days into operations as well.

This should give you a general idea -- we are running a bit late and
still have a fair amount to do, but should have most primary data by
the time operations start.


Status 2/27 morning [oncley]

All infrastructure working.

Networking between sites (almost) working.  Network connection to the 
internet to be built today (27 Feb).

All sensors deployed except:
- hot-film sensors (and associated sonic anemometers) awaiting system 
construction in Boulder.  ETA 1 week.
- CO2 flux sensor (may be deployed today)
- Aerosol sensor in support of REAL (ETA ~10 days)

Extensive software development is ongoing.  We have no way to examine
data yet.  ETA ~3 days.







4: LOG, Site all, Mon 27-Feb-2006 19:08:11 PST, Daily status
ISFF Daily status 27 Feb 2006

Weather: clear and mild from the time I got here (22 Feb) through day before 
yesterday (25 Feb).  Yesterday, became cloudy with occasionally strong winds
from the S and blowing dust in the valley.  Today, continued S winds with dust
and occasional drizzle.  This afternoon, drizzle increased to light rain.  This
should be great for setting the soil sensors, stabilizing some of the dust, and
perhaps cleaning some of the sensors.

		Central		South		West		Base
Networking
		up (E'ant x1)	up (E'ant)	up (AP24)	up (TPOP x1)

Data systems:
		up		up		up

Sonic anemometer [need boom angles shot]
30m		up		up		up
25m		up		up		up
20m		up		up		up
15m		up		up		up
10m		up		up		up
5m		up		up		up

Krypton hygrometer [last cleaned]:
30m		up		up		up
5m		up		up		26 Feb

TRH:
30m		up		up		up
15m		up		up		up	
5m		up		up		up

Rad [Rnet, Rsw.in, Rsw.out, Rlw.in, Rlw.out]
		up		up		up

Soil [Gsoil, Tsoil, Qsoil, Cpsoil]
		up		up		up

[Sensors unique to specific sites:]

Rain
		up [should see something today]

Licor [h2o, co2]
		up

Aerosol [not intalled, needs manufacturer help to increase reporting rate]
						X

Hot-film sonic anemometers [not installed, awaiting hot-films and data system]
3.5m		X
2.5m		X
1.5m		X

Hot-films [not installed, being built/tested in Boulder]
3.5m		X
2.5m		X
1.5m		X

Power
source:		solar 		solar		solar
voltage:	13.1V 27 Feb	13.5V 26 Feb	13.4V 26 Feb


COMMENTS:

Although all standard sensors are up, data are not yet available to evaluate
functionality/quality.  Most also need standard service (cleaning and boom 
angles shot), which we've deliberately delayed until close to the start of
operations.


1: LOG, Site none, Tue 21-Feb-2006 12:26:53 MST, Logbook created
initial log file /usr/local/src/isff/aster/projects/TREX/logbook/tklog.log created by USER aster