SS June/Jul 2011 Trip 1

CPCRW trip

• Download data from all four sites
• bring out solder and soldering iron to patch up chopped up wires
• electrical tape
• net radiometers
  • dessicant for net radiometers
  • replace domes for net radiometers
  • level the at/rh pole for net radiometer / anemometers
• anemometers
• solar panels from office

CPCRW At some point type Shopping List:

• For better anchoring stations to prevent tippage:
  • Screw in Anchors (like dog run style)
  • 1 package of tiedowns
• nu-rail fittings for WS?
• ubolt deals for net radiometers?

Bob's Tools etc.

• solder
• soldering iron
• tool bag
• fieldbook
• laptop
• garbage bag for rain protection
• serial cable
• waders

Correspondence

From J.Cable Email The SFL station was completely knocked over. There was water in the box but everything was still running. I did my best to set everything back up again; it's heavy stuff! Nothing was chewed up though, it just looked like a conga line came through.

I thought I had fixed the wire between the solar panel and the box but apparently my fix didn't work. The battery isn't charging and starting to get dangerously low. I think the high leaf area is shading the solar panels because the SFH site is having issues with the battery charging up.

The temp/RH probes at SFL and NFL aren't working. I'm not sure if the ppt bucket at SFL is working; the wire got chewed at one point. The upper sites seem to be surviving.

Super-Site

In Fairbanks

• Add 2 AT/RH to measurements and outputs.
• Drill holes for ubolts in angle iron & cut to length

Fieldwork

• Finish Anchors
• Wire AT/RH
• send new program to met logger

Computer work

• change scp in camera scripts to rsync
  • rsync -avz -e "ssh -p 22 -i ~/.ssh/rsync-key" /local_image_dir/ pfss@main_server.iarc.uaf.edu:/remote_destination/
• set computer up to restart nightly so this wireless disconnection stops being a bother.
  • 50 1 * * * /sbin/shutdown -r now
• log temperatures and wireless signal strength, refresh brain on what I have set up up there