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98 Sat 21-Aug-2004 10m aspen sonic dead aspen oncley
70 Tue 10-Aug-2004 1m / 10m UW Sonics removed pine militzer
66 Tue 10-Aug-2004 windsonic format change willow oncley
64 Mon 09-Aug-2004 boom angles all oncley
35 Thu 22-Jul-2004 csat.17m.w down willow oncley
24 Tue 06-Jul-2004 Sonic work at willow willow semmer
15 Sun 20-Jun-2004 Changed willow 2m csat3 rate to 30hz willow maclean




98: sonics, Site aspen, Sat 21-Aug-2004 21:43:52 MDT, 10m aspen sonic dead
10m atiK is dead since this AM -- reason unknown, but rain/water problems likely.

70: sonics, Site pine, Tue 10-Aug-2004 17:53:53 MDT, 1m / 10m UW Sonics removed
08/10/04
12:40local, 19:40z
Removed 10m sonic #NUW5
Removed  1m sonic #NUW3
Per SO request since they both have problems.
66: sonics, Site willow, Tue 10-Aug-2004 15:03:44 MDT, windsonic format change
about 20min ago, steve and I just changed the format of the windsonic from
spd,dir to u,v.  I'll change prep.config (I don't think channel config needs
to change) to the current value.  Note that this could necessitate a change
in ops, but I won't worry about this for the moment.

64: sonics, Site all, Mon 09-Aug-2004 13:35:45 MDT, boom angles
Here is the big compilation of all of my boom angle shoots over the last 
2 weeks:

Sonic	Type	DataScope  Aspen   Pine    Willow  CUFF    USGS    Albion  Kiowa
1.w     ATIK    359.4                                      -37d44'  93d46' 102d54'
2.w     CSAT    359.0                              -52d20' -37d38'  93d38' 102d46'
6.w     ATIK    358.3                              -50d42' -36d02'  94d54' 104d17'
10.w    ATIK                                       -50d46' -35d30'  94d20' 103d36'
17.w    CSAT                                       -51d36' -36d16'  93d50' 102d12'

1.p     NUW     338.4
2.p     CSAT    339.3
6.p     NUW     341.0
10.p    NUW     342.4      -54d56'                 17d44'  36d40' 
17.p    NUW                                        15d38'  34d00'  110d44' 118d40'
30.p    CSAT               -58d22'         105d54' 14d32'  33d00'  109d28' 117d48'

1.a     NUW     002.9
2.a     CSAT    002.7
6.a     Gill    345.9                              66d26'
10.a    ATIK    000.3              103d44'         56d32'  57d44'   92d26' 103d44'
17.a    
30.a    CSAT                        98d26'  90d30' 52d24'  53d26'   87d10'  95d26'
Processed with my bearing.q S-function, I get:
where ("ds") is the datascope reading and others are based on sextant sightings
of the object by the column name.  In general, the angles are within 2 degrees.
Some of this error may be due to the GPS coordinates I used for the objects.
We should completely verify these.

         ds Aspen  Pine Willow  CUFF  USGS Albion Kiowa
 1m.w 179.4    NA    NA     NA    NA 182.4  179.9 179.6
 2m.w 179.0    NA    NA     NA 181.2 182.3  180.1 179.7
 6m.w 178.3    NA    NA     NA 179.6 180.7  178.8 178.2
10m.w    NA    NA    NA     NA 179.7 180.2  179.4 178.9
17m.w    NA    NA    NA     NA 180.5 181.0  179.9 180.3
30m.w    NA    NA    NA     NA    NA    NA     NA    NA
 1m.p 158.4    NA    NA     NA    NA    NA     NA    NA
 2m.p 159.3    NA    NA     NA    NA    NA     NA    NA
 6m.p 161.0    NA    NA     NA    NA    NA     NA    NA
10m.p 162.4 157.6    NA     NA 160.7 159.9     NA    NA
17m.p    NA    NA    NA     NA 162.8 162.6  162.7 163.0
30m.p    NA 161.1    NA  162.3 163.9 163.6  163.9 163.9
 1m.a 182.9    NA    NA     NA    NA    NA     NA    NA
 2m.a 182.7    NA    NA     NA    NA    NA     NA    NA
 6m.a 165.9    NA    NA     NA 165.9    NA     NA    NA
10m.a 180.3    NA 179.0     NA 175.8 177.6  181.5 181.5
17m.a    NA    NA 182.1     NA 178.4 180.3  184.6 184.4
30m.a    NA    NA 184.3  184.5 179.9 181.9  186.7 186.3

After Sean's latest DGPS readings (17 Aug), I get: (which are a LOT better!)
         ds Aspen  Pine Willow  CUFF  USGS Albion Kiowa
 1m.w 179.4    NA    NA     NA    NA 180.2  179.9 179.6
 2m.w 179.0    NA    NA     NA 179.7 180.1  180.1 179.7
 6m.w 178.3    NA    NA     NA 178.1 178.5  178.8 178.2
10m.w    NA    NA    NA     NA 178.2 178.0  179.4 178.9
17m.w    NA    NA    NA     NA 179.0 178.8  179.9 180.3
30m.w    NA    NA    NA     NA    NA    NA     NA    NA
 1m.p 158.4    NA    NA     NA    NA    NA     NA    NA
 2m.p 159.3    NA    NA     NA    NA    NA     NA    NA
 6m.p 161.0    NA    NA     NA    NA    NA     NA    NA
10m.p 162.4 160.2    NA     NA 160.1 159.6     NA    NA
17m.p    NA    NA    NA     NA 162.2 162.3  162.7 163.0
30m.p    NA 163.7    NA  163.5 163.3 163.3  163.9 163.9
 1m.a 182.9    NA    NA     NA    NA    NA     NA    NA
 2m.a 182.7    NA    NA     NA    NA    NA     NA    NA
 6m.a 165.9    NA    NA     NA 172.1    NA     NA    NA
10m.a 180.3    NA 181.6     NA 182.0 182.1  181.8 181.7
17m.a    NA    NA 184.7     NA 184.6 184.8  184.9 184.6
30m.a    NA    NA 186.9  186.7 186.1 186.4  187.0 186.5
35: sonics, Site willow, Thu 22-Jul-2004 07:18:32 MDT, csat.17m.w down
I just visited willow to try to fix this.  There is water in the cable and blue
corrosion at the breakout box (like we've seen before).  We need to replace this
cable and tape the barrel up the tower.  (But I don't have a cable or tower
climbing gear here now.)
24: sonics, Site willow, Tue 06-Jul-2004 14:49:39 MDT, Sonic work at willow
Thw 17m sonic at willow is down. Last Friday Steve O. and John found water in
the cable at the breakout box. They were not able to get the sonic going again. Today's tests show that the sonic is ok and the problem is on the Emerald board,
channel 208, (second board port 1). The best I was able to determine is the
cabling from the sonic to the data system was ok. The internal cable from the
interface board was ok. So the problem is either a bad 4 port serial cable
to the Emerald or the Emerald board.
15: sonics, Site willow, Sun 20-Jun-2004 16:43:42 MDT, Changed willow 2m csat3 rate to 30hz

The 2m csat sonic was running at 20hz.  Sent it the "Ad" command
to switch to 30hz.

Hi from Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico!