Another hot clear day with a light southerly wind and occasional dust devils nearby.
After a slow start due to various delays, there was lots of progress in many areas today. The forklift was delivered, more trucks arrived (the ISFS base trailer and the Penske truck carrying the MPDs and the Metek Halo lidar, thanks Ben and Dexter), and the electrician hooked up power. Josh used the forklift to get the Modular Profiler amplifier enclosure into position, then David got it all connected, and once the power came on, he quickly got the profiler running. There is still a lot to do with the profiler such as orientating the antenna to reduce radio interference and get all the various components tuned, but it was great to see a test run of the system and that his new FGPA data system was working.
In other progress, the RASS was cabled up, MISS was repositioned to line up properly with the ISFS tower array; Josh, David and Will installed the safety railing on the lidar platform on top of MISS, and Isabel and I assembled the ISS1 met tower.
Installing the 449 MHz Modular Profiler amplifier enclosure
David and a monitor showing the initial test data from the Modular Profiler
Installing the safety railing for the lidar platform on MISS