Today was another beautiful day in Heber Valley. The temps started off cool but with mostly clear skies and the sun shinning it warmed up to the 30s.
Started the day off showing Matt where ISS1 was located and listening to the RASS speakers. This morning, and during checks throughout the day, I did not hear any abnormalities.
Profiler observations: @ 0934 150m Rass mode 50V 3.56A, 31V 1.909A
@ 0936 100m mode 50V 4.24, 31V 1.857A
I have been making observations of the power draw at different times of the day and the current drops in the afternoon when the enclosure is at its warmest (been around 32C the past few days). Today the current dropped almost 1A which probably means the RF output of the HPA's is drooping as well. Tomorrow I am going to start running one of the AC's during the day to see if this helps out.
This afternoon around 1230 I paused the profiler to squeegee water off the antennas. I had noticed yesterday that enough frost was forming and melting each day to start forming pools of water at the edges of the antenna which were then freezing. I wanted to clear this off when it had melted again.
Matt also reminded me of cleaning the NR01's as well so we did that today too at ISS1.
Since Matt and Isabel did not get a very long overlap I had reminded him on how to do some of the ISFS checks. Everything was working well today so the rest of the day was pretty quiet. We did listen in on the CFACT daily meeting and it sounds like the chance for fog this week is very low and that another IOP probably will not happen again until next week. For now they have just called for no IOP's the next 24 hrs though as forecasts can change. They may be taking a hard down day Friday, but also Sebastian wants to find a calm day to test the tether sonde.
At one point I had noticed a 30 minute gap in profiler data on the plots, but after some investigation I could not find a reason why this occurred.
Todays sounding went off with no issues.
Last thing we did was go to the storage unit since Dan is looking for PPE numbers on the instruments for a property audit and there were some there to check.