After a well needed rest day to escape the heat, we hit the ground running. We finished putting DSMs and batteries at all the towers except T0 (batteries but no DSMs). We then put solar panels, victrons, and batteries at the Trailer Tower and at the Chem Shelter. The legs of the TT are extended and attached but still need plywood for added surface area before leveling. Next we built up 4 booms with CSATs, quad-disks, and EC150s and put them at T2,5,8 & 47 along with EC100s and Ubiquitys facing the base trailer. The hope is that we can get enough signal from there without using the TT as the main antenna. I am not sure if the connection worked, it seemed that we were having trouble connecting to T5. Will have to troubleshoot tomorrow morning. Towers 2,5,8 & 47 still need data cables for the EC100s. The process of hanging the booms worked well with one climber positioned off and someone on the ladder directly upwind of the tower helping to guide the boom in.
It started getting really hot outside (103°C?) so we spent the rest of the time adding the equipment locations to AssetPanda and updating the CSAT3As with the gasket washers and bored cassettes. All of the updated cassettes have been swapped in so the rest without the gasket washer will have to wait for the update until after M2HATS. 6 more booms with CSATs, quad-disks, and EC150s were made and are ready to be hung tomorrow on the towers with DSMs.
All ubiquiti links are on the net except to the trailer tower (not set up) and t0 and t35 (need troubleshooting). We decided to mount the omni on the base trailer rather than the trailer tower, so we could get links up before we get around to raising the trailer tower. So far links seem to be working, despite the omni being considerably lower. Other than the ones at tt, t0, and t35, all DSMs are on the net. t35, t0b, and t0t are likely powered and working, just not networked. Ustar is online in the base trailer and is running dsm_server and statsproc. As of this morning raw and netcdf data is being transferred back to EOL. Data is starting to show up on qctables!!