Blog from September, 2009

16m TRH out

The 16 meter TRH did not survive the power outages on Sep 16.

It was running fine up to the 03:20 am dropout but has just
given a few sporadic points since.

I logged into the manitou system and tried rserial to port 11
(rs 11), but got nothing back.

Power outages

The data system at manitou died at around 03:20 am MDT on Sep 16,
and and came back at 8:30 am. It died again at 10:34 pm Sep 16 and
came up at 8:30 the next morning. Looks like we're not
getting enough solar charging.

It has stayed up since Chris G swapped batteries on Sep 18.

Sept 17, 2009

Stopped by the 45m tower and noticed a fire line that has been scratched around the tower and anchors.  The line comes about five feet from anchors and approx. seven feet from solar panels.  Looked a little close if the burn gets out-of-hand.  Also swapped NDAQ and beacon batteries.  The batteries on beacon were around 13V while the NDAQ were at 11V.  The solar panels for the NDAQ were really never in the sun while I was there (~9 - 10am) with the beacon panels were in full sunlight the whole visit time.

N 39°06.045'
W 105°06.319'

2385m elevation