Blackstone Trip, Jan. 2016
By: ksterne on: Wed., Jan. 27, 2016 11:07 AM EST (8556 Reads)
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Shortly before the winter break, the internet connection to the radar site went down. Being patient since the availability of people to check on it would probably be low, the connection remained off over the two week winter break. However, our local contact was able to check on the connection for us and noted that the Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) power supply had melted and thus the internet connection was broken. The damage to the PoE unit and the RJ45 connector can be seen in the picture. In order to keep the linux computer’s hard drive from filling up, a trip to the radar site was made to restore the connection. In addition, this trip would be used to install the newly acquired and configured linux computer.
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The trip here went fairly quickly as far as repairing the apparent damage. A new PoE unit was dropped in place and the Ethernet connector was cut off and a new one installed. However, it was not as apparent that during the power outage to the wireless radio, the settings for the radio were returned to the factory defaults. The factory default settings would not connect to the other side of the wireless hop and so it wasn't until inspecting the settings on the SPAREC side that this became apparent.
The new linux computer was also installed fairly easily and quickly. However, a few small configuration items for a radar site linux computer were not setup prior to the trip. These could have been completed from the comfort of the lab, but were completed fairly quickly at the radar site.
In addition to the main problems, a few small items were taken care of while at the site as well. Some of the smaller pole parts for the final MSI build were brought inside of the building since the packaging for these part had deteriorated over the years.
