A bit of fog in the morning, along with some drizzle that cleared later in the day.  I saw a rainbow.

The push today was to get the supersites finished, since today was supposed to be the first day of ops.

DCS:

  • wired fan power for NR01 (had been missed before)
  • secured thermocouple connectors
  • (radiometer were cleaned by Sebastian yesterday)
  • raised tower (but without thermocouples themselves)

PRS:

  • leveled 0.5m radiometers
  • installed the rest of the 2m radiometers and dressed cables
  • installed 7m and 32m radiometers
  • Sebastian cleaned all radiometers
  • Sebastian created a platform for his lidar
  • replaced prototype cassette mount with final design on one sonic, to better fit the thermocouple mount
  • found that the 7m sonic had been mounted upside down on its cassette, and fixed it
  • added telescoping tower thermocouple cabling (and thermocouples themselves), but logger is still not hooked up
  • started to raise tower, but found that the cables tangled.  Pulled the tower back down and reworked some things, but this took enough time that we were not able to fully erect it.  (We didn't want to raise it when it was too dark to see what was happening).  It is about 15m high.

In the meantime, Dan corrected a power issue for Gannet's group and drove to Logan to return bad sonics to Campbell.

So...another productive day and pretty much the end of set-up, but didn't actually become operational.

Also, a server issue in Boulder is preventing us from getting a complete picture of instrument outages, of which I'm sure there are still several.


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  1. Steve Oncley AUTHOR

    In addition to ISFS not being quite ready, the PIs and ISS also weren't 100%.  The first daily radiosonde didn't happen today.  Sebastian plans to bring his lidar tomorrow.  I thought I overheard that the PIs got Ishmail's stuff working in the lab, but I don't know if it has transitioned to the field yet.  And of course none of the thermocouples are working, due to lack of dataloggers connected at the supersites and lack of thermocouples themselves at the satellite sites.