I have repacked our tool chest and it is ready for shipment.  I have also organized and

taped up 7 boxes of cardboard packing material, desiccant packets and sonde sensor covers.

All the boxes are numbered and labeled and ready for shipment.

There are two more flights scheduled this week if all goes well.  RF18 on 09/27

and RF19 on 09/28.  Hard down day is scheduled for Sunday.  I think the PI's would

like three more flights next week, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday but no word from NSF

yet.

I came across 5 miscellaneous sondes and one that had run in the launcher for 90 minutes.

I measured the battery voltage of each and all are good (>8VDC) so they have been placed into the

inventory for the next flight.  I have 92 sondes that are either completely unpacked or unpacked

down to the plastic wrap ready to go.  Depending upon what we hear from NSF will determine the

next steps.  I don't want to unpack sondes that may not get used and just have to be repacked.

In any case, we are in good shape.  We have 212 sondes total on site and ready for immediate use on this project.

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  1. Mack Goodstein

    The plan will be to fill the launcher on the GV with sondes for the ferry back if we can, since we may need some of those sondes back in Boulder before the sea shipment arrives. So if there are any extra unpacked sondes they will just go into the launcher.

    Of the 212 sondes left, I believe ~150 of those are for OTREC use, and the rest were extras sent down in case the air shipment was delayed (which it was, so that worked out well!). Pavel and Holger probably have the actual numbers for exactly how many project sondes remain.