Mostly overcast skies with high cirrus clouds and very hazy today. IOP 5 finished up today with no issues.
ISS1 – All systems still running nominally. Profiler status this morning: @ 0953 100m: 4.71A @ 50V & 1.848A @ 32V, and @1000 150m rass: 3.983A @ 50V & 1.889 A @ 32 V. I noticed in xplotmapr’s Diagnostics that the SNR and Signal histograms are showing that Channel 0 (red) of the profiler has slightly better performance than the other two channels. I am attributing this to fact that the Channel 0 antenna panel gets more early sunlight that melts and evaporates the frost off of the antenna faster than the other two antenna panels, which are partially shaded by the speaker surrounds in the morning sun, allowing the Channel 0 antenna to transmit/receive slightly better.
ISS2 – After which, all systems functioning nominally. Some minor problems reloading the Nagios page. Gary has advised that the link found on new Firefox tabs was from IDEAL and out of date and has been removed. Browsing directly to localhost/nagios, per Isabel’s instruction, solved the issue.
ISFS – No issues for me today. Tomorrow we will lower the DCS and PRS towers to replace faulty thermocouple temperature sensors.
Soundings – Launched the 4:15 sounding today with the help of a ~12 U o U graduate students that were visiting the site.