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Perhaps two mistakes were made which cancelled each other: cross-cabling, and the complement association between serial port and sensor id in the XML? Or perhaps the XML on the DSM was corrected to match the cabling shortly after the wide array started, and then corrected back for the medium spaced array? Both seem unlikely. The sequence of the above serial numbers suggest that neither of the above occurred, and that the serial ports were recorded incorrectly in Tom's log message.
I (Gordon) do not believe that the The sensor ids were have not been altered in the archive after it was recorded, since the modification times of the files have been preserved and match the original recording times.
Steve Oncley also looked at data during dust devil events from these sonics during the wide array, and the spacial continuity of the relative wind directions indicate that the sonics were in the intended configuration.
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