t-rex-iss2: Chronological Logbook Entries

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

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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

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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

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ISS2 generator filled - 22G.

53: RADAR, Site ISS2 Onion Road, Thu 27-Apr-2006 01:26:41 GMT, Profilier stalled

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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,

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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

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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

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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

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Restarted profiler computer (training for Jason).

47: GENERATOR, Site ISS2 Onion Road, Thu 20-Apr-2006 21:10:48 GMT, filled generator tank

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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

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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

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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

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Fuel filled, 22 G

43: SOFTWARE, Site ISS2 Onion Road, Tue 18-Apr-2006 22:46:07 GMT, Backup

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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

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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

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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

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Filled generator tank - 10G  17 UT

39: RADAR, Site ISS2 Onion Road, Sun 16-Apr-2006 16:56:34 GMT, Backup profiler data

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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33: SOFTWARE, Site ISS2 Onion Road, Wed 29-Mar-2006 21:12:30 GMT, DVD Data Backup

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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

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23 gallons

31: DAILY, Site ISS2 Onion Road, Sat 25-Mar-2006 21:13:49 GMT, IOP6 - easterlies

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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

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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

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23 gallons

28: GENERATOR, Site ISS2 Onion Road, Thu 23-Mar-2006 14:13:25 GMT, Fueled genrator 6:00am3/22

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

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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

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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

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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]

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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

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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.

22: GENERATOR, Site , Wed 15-Mar-2006 22:14:58 GMT, Generator service today: shut down from 20:30-21:55 UT Mar 15

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Generator service today. We shut down at 20:27 and restarted all at 21:55. No problems on startup. Next service due approx 10 days: Mar 25

Added 16 gal of fuel.

21: GENERATOR, Site , Wed 15-Mar-2006 02:22:00 GMT, refueled generator. 25 gallons [6pm Tuesday Mar 14 == 02UT Mar 15)]

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refueled generator 25 gallons Wednesday Mar 15 02Z (6pm Tues Mar 14)
Also checked site. All ok.

20: SOFTWARE, Site , Tue 14-Mar-2006 19:54:11 GMT, data_store backed up to DVD 8pm Mar 13 (4UT Mar 14)

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Charlie backed up the data_store to DVD at 8pm Mar 13 (4UT Mar 14). I will bring the DVD back to Boulder.

19: SOUNDING, Site ISS2 Onion Road, Tue 14-Mar-2006 00:02:26 GMT, Moving 1 box or sondes to MAPR

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Moving 1 box of sondes to MAPR

18: GENERATOR, Site , Sun 12-Mar-2006 21:27:21 GMT, refueled generator. 25 gallons [1pm (21Z) Sun Mar 12]

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refueled generator 25 gallons Sunday Mar 12 21Z (1pm)
Also checked site. All ok.

17: GENERATOR, Site , Fri 10-Mar-2006 14:57:59 GMT, refueled generator. 24 gallons

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refueled generator 24 gallons Friday Mar 10 15Z (7am)

16: DAILY, Site ISS2 Onion Road, Thu 09-Mar-2006 15:58:21 GMT, Daily Checks

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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

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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

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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

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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,

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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,

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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

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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.

2: SOUNDING, Site UMBS, Tue 27-Jun-2000 13:01:25 GMT, Sounding Launch Log Template

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CLASS LAUNCH LOG						 version:951116
=====================
=========>> Enter data after all colons (:)  <<===========

1. Clone the original sounding log file.
2. Enter information before launch.
3. Enter post-termination data.
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Use arrows to navigate, NO CARRIAGE RET, except in comments + wx descriptions!
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SITE INFO
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Site Name: 
date yymmdd: 
launch time UTC: 
Sonde coef tape #:

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
MET INFO
--------        For Sonde
Pressure mb	: 
Temp C		: 
RH %		: 

		For Surface Data
Pressure mb	: 
Temp C		: 
RH%		: 
Wind Spd m/s	: 
Wind Dir deg	: 

Pre-Launch		Note conditions not observable by automatic systems
Weather Description	( visibility, sea state, cloud coverage and cloud type, 
		          rain, virga, etc. )


------------------------------------------------------------------------------
POST TERMINATION
----------------

Termination Pressure mb	: 
Termination Altitude km	: 
Reason for Termination	: 

Post-Termination Weather Description: 

For Surface Data
		Pressure mb	: 
     		Temp C		: 
		RH %		: 
		Wspd m/s 	: 
		Wdir deg	: 
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
COMMENTS (data quality, unusual meteorolical features, launch problems, etc.)
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1: LOG, Site none, Tue 11-Apr-2000 15:53:29 GMT, Logbook created

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initial log file /iss/home/iss/tklog.log created by USER iss