Weather: Cool, high winds (25-35 mph constant!) from mid morning through sunset. Clear with occasional cumulus.
Tasking:
- Andy's first day. Started with an overview of duties & tour of the base trailer
- Proceeded to cover methods of checking data with a focus on qctables, ncharts and cockpit
- Continued tour at the swale. Went over all NCAR and user sensors and their locations
- Upon cockpit data check at SODAR trailer, found two issues
- initb 0.2m 2D Gill was not reporting. Attempted PIO power cycle to no avail. Sensor came back after DSM power cycle and is still reporting
- lconv a2 1.5m CSAT3A stopped reporting at 08:22 this morning. Power cycle failed to bring it back. We intended to return with a DMM further troubleshooting this afternoon but excessive winds were disconcerting enough to table this until tomorrow
- The soybean field to the north of lconv was harvested last night and this morning. It was then safe to rerun the serial cable from the beans tripod mote to its DSM. No issues with those streams
The wind already made a bit of a mess blowing packaging and other materials around. I suspect tomorrow will be a bit of a cleanup day. We will also knock down the remaining standing crop the harvester missed for consistency, particularly around the corn and beans NR01/Soil Sensor combos. Hopefully we will run into Ken to find out what he wants with the corn collected on our tarps.