Tech Staff Meeting Notes September 9, 2014

The top priority is always repair of down stations.
NM problem stations
ET problem stations

Duty Table updated June 2014


Priorities


News & Highlights

The CERI general meeting with Chuck's state of the center address is scheduled for Monday September 22 3-4pm.

Mac is on-call for Federal jury duty 6 Oct through 6 Nov.

Need to have a Power Outage post-mortem after Bob gets everything running again. Other than the back-up Liebert experiencing a high head shutdown, the seisnets faired well. Deagol did not boot which takes out most of Mitch's files, Request Tracker, seisnet backups, and the ability to run aqms_utils. Should get those processes working on a server in the machine room though we want to keep the data backups to a machine in the alternate server room in the long building.


NMSZ

Some newer radios fail in cold temps (e.g. EPRM, HOPT, SJBM, and WYBT). Replacements are in the works.

Install freewave serial reset at bb stations.

NMDown


Data Examples
Down
EPRM
POBM
PPLM
SJBM

NM Misc Problem
MARM.EHZ
WADM.EHZ- drifting
SEAR- see image -first image taken from a 4.3 Oklahoma quake.
HDBT.HNE- see image
HENM.HNE-see image

AG Problems
CCAR.HNE -drifting
FCAR.HNZ -spikes
HHAR.HHE- drifting

All stations in MO were serviced and TN has been started.

Completed ISIS3 upgrade at QUAR. Have two more to go.

GNAR needs better insulating berm.

GNAR/GSAR have networking problems. Needs a site visit.

NODE Tasks

James has an initial mockup of a Win7 node machine with NIDAQ and adsend. Need to make sure it has all the other necessary tools and burn it in. Will try it first on mudworm then convert the BRBC machine when its pulled so that the High Peak node is Win7.

DBB:

Link to Wilder is stable. Need to order a dish.

MKTA:

LNXT: ABB fades on some mornings, most likely due to atmospheric inversions. Jim noticed the side band at KLUV is at 60db instead of 80db. Or perhaps there's an issue at PWPT.

NMAD:

Battels wireless has dropouts. Steve contacted them.

Some work remains on the NMAD tower (e.g. a couple shakey preamps).

AZTN/HDBR: After getting some config pointers from Jamie Steidl, Steve has recording at 200sps going. The freewaves don't have enough bandwidth to stream it real-time and the dsl is worse. Steve downloaded a complete set of 200sps data; need to go pick it up from AZTN with a memory stick.

CERI:

Need to review and update the power systems in 218.

Richardson move.

The ABB is done.

The DBB will be done later this summer.


ETSZ

ISIS4. Have hardware for two stations in NC.

Need to replace the 24V regulators at power hungry reftek sites. CCRT, and ASTN are done, PMTN got a new PS when the new media converter was installed.

CCNC is not going through fgtn and instead repeats through ASTN. The 950MHz shot would work so it could be converted to digital.

We're still repeating CPRT through GTTN. It has a shot to Gibbs High School so we could transmit to there, remove all hardware from the lightning prone GTTN site, and move the Seymour fire station hardware to Gibbs High School.

A work order is in to upgrade the Athens DSL. Currently we're a 1.5Mbps download and about 350kbps upstream. The upgrade will increase to 3Mbps and 1.1Mbps.

ETDown

Data Examples
Down

ATTN
Mt Gibbs Node
-GFM
-MGNC
-RBNC
-SMNC
-TRYN
-TVNC
-WSNC

Misc Problems

ASTN.HN*
BCRT.HN*
GMG.HNZ- see image
CPRT.HNN - see image
SWET - see image
CCNC - see image
RCGA- noise -see helis

The spikes at SWET are likely horses. Can we extend the electric fence to surround the station to prevent the horses from rubbing on it?

We seem to have excessive RT147 problems. Need to follow up with ASL. Mitch will call a meeting of the FDL committee and ask for possession of the K2's. Then we can have VLF transform them into episensors. These can replace the RT147's and end the merry-go-round of replacements.

GFM needs to be moved to a more quiet and accessible site. Possible target for digital upgrade.

STAR Node

BRBC Node

Mitch needs to get a cell modem for WSNC.

Internet, accessibility, and high noise inducing RF requires we move the MGNC central receive. John presented several possibilities and investigated both the PSN digitizer and the Menlo Park system. We determined that eventually we'll need to convert all nodes to the Menlo Park system so that we can obsolesce XP. But for now, we need to reconfigure North Carolina as in this figure. Better figure. This includes:
Decommission RBNC
Upgrade WSNC to broadband or S-13/Reftek and cell modem. On Deck.
Rotate CCNC to repeat through fgtn and add to MTTN node. Done.
Establish new node at High Peak.
Transmit MGNC to High Peak.
Repeat TRYN through MGNC.
Transmit GFM to High Peak.
Transmit TVNC to High Peak.
Transmit SMNC to High Peak.

Initial recon at High Peak and meeting with Morgantown rep suggests this plan will work. Still waiting on the Morgantown permission.

Need to get breakouts that connect ISIS4 to both S-13 and L4. That way we can upgrade remaining PII stations to ISIS4 first, then later go back and replace the L4's with S-13's. In progress.

MTTN Node

ASTN and PMTN would benefit from reconfiguring the basalts there to record continuous buffer in addition to the 100 sps rt data transfer.

PMTN needs a fence?


GPS

Next time each station is visited, need to note antenna model and serno for Smalley.

MCTY- Comms down-new provider firewall issues, should still be recording

CVMS-Out-need site visit-as far as IT guy knows , no changes were made at School .

PGTV & PTGX We have our new IP address assigned. Need site visit. Jim ordered pair of wireless radios to replace damaged freewaves. Cheap ones like Smalley likes.


AG Network

LCAR sensor installed and Leak should be fixed. Check next visit.


FDL


NSMP

NSMP Station List. All stations were converted to cell modems.


MISCELLANEOUS

Clean out shed behind house0 to use as field storage.

The seisnet group on umdrive is at http://umdrive.memphis.edu/mwithers/seisnet You will need your uuid and password.