Another hot, cloudless, day. Perfect for a long day out in the field....
Onsite: Gary, Justin, Matt, me.
Most everything was working (until we killed t0). t38 also had a hiccup today, that Gary probably revived.
Spent the entire day moving t0 to a new tower about 100m to the east of the main tower line, in an attempt to get perfect vertical profiles with tt. At the old t0, we mounted our last spare CSAT3A as 4m.t0p, though I don't think I got the configuration right yet. I'll be adding this to qctables, etc.
In an attempt to think through the profile problem further, Chris and I had a discussion about trying to use longer booms at at least 7m on tt. Another option would be to raise the new 20' t0 to 30' and put 7m on it. Keep those ideas coming, folks!
P.S. The t0p problem was that its EC100 also was set to ASCII. Grrr. I connected over minicom and changed it back to binary. Also updated stats_5min.xml on ustar to include it. And qctables now displays t0p.
2 Comments
Chris Roden
The double sided boom clamps could easily be used to double the length of our booms from 5' to 10'.
(An internal rod would also help to stiffen the system)
Also, I do NOT condone a 30' Rohn tower on 1" Aluminum anchors!!
William Nicewonger
I don't think its a good idea to run a 30' tower with ratchet straps for guys and single 1" auger anchors. If you want a 30' tower we can send out better equipment to support that.