Ops Sep 5

Josh and Chris onsite today.  Isabel left us this morning for the drive back to Las Vegas and flight back to Denver, although she was still providing remote tech support.

Sunny with the only clouds on to see on the horizon with light winds from the southeast.

• All data from the ISFS towers looked good
• Josh gave Chris a refresher on launching balloons, since Josh will be leaving Thursday evening.
• We opened all of the coolers and tried to move Vicrons on top of the batteries in the coolers that were not aggressively guarded by Spiders. There were three coolers that we decided the Vicrons looked great right where they were (because the resident Black Widow retreated into the Victron)
• We checked the tension on all of the straps.  There were a few that were loose enough (slack and slightly drooping) to require a few additional clicks.
  Did NOT make further adjustments to adjust for level or tighten straps - only adjusted about 4 straps that actually had slack / droop.  I wanted to avoid / minimize any movement.
• One set of straps had been rubbing enough to abrade about 1/4 into each strap.  These straps were taped together at the junction with some electrical tape .
  
• Chenning and I inspected the new T0 and tightened one strap (SW strap) which was drooping.  We also checked level on this tower and adjusted to bring it to level.
  We will revisit it tomorrow to check if we can improve the strapping on the SW side to move the ratchet part lower to the ground.  We plan on doing this be setting up a parallel strap and then removing the original one.
• I pulled out all of the crates that had been under the trailer tower and poured out any standing water, and allowed the cases to dry out.
  When dry, I pushed these further under the trailer so that run-off from the sides of the trailer would not flow on to the top of the crates.
  
• Lastly, we were having some internet trouble today, with intermittent slow downs (between 13:00 and 15:00). Nagios was showing connectivity alternately jumping between green, yellow, red and back again.  Speed tests where showing between 50Kbps, and over 1Mbps.  I called Mimo, but did not receive a definitive answer into the cause or resolution.  We will continue to monitor this. 

Teardown crew will need to be very careful - wearing gloves, and paying close attention to all boxes and coolers.  Over half of the coolers have black widows in them, and I also found a little scorpion friend under one of the boxes: