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The tower site(34.494511, -119.824009) is located on a hill, with a rough track leading to the field with the site. A lovely spot!

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Figure 1. Overview of site access and parking area

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Figure 2. Track from the gate - steep and rocky (see below)

Notes

Contact Milo by email 2–24 hrs before any visits.
Primary contact:
- Milo Page
- mtpage@ncsu.edu
Horse paneling was discussed to potentially be installed around the tower site, but the landowner volunteered to install that
There is a steer (Steve saw a burro, 3/29) on the property, but he is reported to be harmless. There may also be goats around.

Picture Trail

When I visited I parked in the parking lot and walked to the site. The road is passable with a vehicle with good clearance and four-wheel drive, the worst section is a steep and rocky part that could be challenging to drive back up. P.S.: Steve drove the white pickup both ways along this track 3/29 without incident.

Left turn off Camino Cielo to Windermere Ranch.	Automatic gate into the ranch.	Parking lot on left just inside the gate.
Fork to the right of the main road, across from the parking lot.	Follow the road past the pond on the left.	Go through the unlocked gate.

To Do

Take normal site photos
Check for 2A fuse

Site Photos

view to S

view to N

Clockwise from N (4/10/22):

Soils:

Tower looking E:

2022-03-16 Visit by Gary

I emailed Milo in the morning asking to visit the site, and asking how much notice he would like for future maintenance visits. His response is that advance notice is good if we know in advance, but we don't need to wait for a response before visiting. He would prefer not to keep showing people where the site is located, so I assured him we would document the directions for future visitors. (P.S.: Steve was expecting a map, and didn't see the "picture trail", since it was at the bottom of the post – since moved closer to the top).

At the site, I replaced the Y power cable with a short straight cable. I connected to the DSM over wifi and installed the dsm_watch_network script and rebooted. The dashboard returned to all green, Icharge was 6.4A, Vcharge at 15.5V. After the boot, ping google succeeded. I also updated the chrony config and project configuration and restarted dsm. Verified that dsm and the watch network service were both running:

daq@s18:~ $ ps ufp `pgrep dsm`
USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
daq        676  0.8  1.8 142092 17728 ?        Ssl  18:40   0:03 dsm $ISFS/projects/$PROJECT/ISFS/config/swex.xml
root       518  0.0  0.9  16124  9256 ?        Ss   18:40   0:00 /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/dsm_watch_network.py monitor --cache /var/cache/dsm_watch_network/dsm_watch_network.js --log info