Another hot mostly clear day with light variable winds and a few dust devils. Some scattered cloud, especially in the afternoon.
The setup is nearly done. Josh and David did some more work on the clutter screen for the MISS wind profiler, adding a mesh screen on the south side and reinforcing the east and west sides. David got back under the antenna to reinstall the backplane cover that we took off the relay segment of the antenna while diagnosing connections to the beam steering relays. The clutter screen does appear to have helped reduce clutter on the lowest range gates, although there does still seem to be an issue with the wind directions. I installed a Microseven camera and a Purpleair aerosol sensor on the ISS1 tower, which required a little reworking of the power and network connections since the DMS box was too crowded to fit everything, so installed another enclosure on the tower.
We did another sounding, both as training for the students and to test out the balloon inflation enclosure (which we are using to gain experience for a possible switch to hydrogen in the future). Winds were much lighter today and everything went well.
Prof Tong and his students learning how to launch soundings
Group shot of EOL staff, Jielun, and the Clemson group