New Mexico Tech Interferometer Data
Acquisition History for June, 2000

Universal Date/Time
log RF
Fast Antenna
JDay Date Time Start/Stop Gain threshold count outputt thr. Comments
153 01-Jun 0:37:10 Start 6 48 1 x100 100 N/A Strong/severe thunderstorms in Cheyenne County
2:23:45 Stop
2:23:55 Start 5
4:00:00 Stop
4:06:00 Start 7 48 1 x100 100 N/A Distant lightning NNE-W
4:15:02 Stop
155 03-Jun 22:57:10 Start 6 50 1 x100 100 N/A Severe thunderstorm watch (see notes)
23:01:25 Stop
23:01:31 Start 7
23:03:41 Stop/Start 40
1:30 Stop No more lightning activity
159 07-Jun 1:31:40 Start 7 40 1 x10 100 N/A One storm producing 80% +CGs and another producing no CGs (see notes)
3:19:50 Stop
161 09-Jun 23:02:30 Start 7 50 1 x10 100 N/A Data may be flawed: flaky XS-sin was discovered/"repaired" on 6/10
23:26:00 Stop Switching back to sferics mode...
163 11-Jun 22:19:30 Start 7 40 1 x10 100 N/A Balloon and T-38 operations already underway (switched from sferics mode)
22:21:42 Stop
22:21:47 Start 6
22:24:15 2 Attempting to desensitize interferometer (high trigger rate for Sun IPC)
22:32:55 Stop
22:33:04 Start 5 45 x100
22:47:09 Stop
22:47:15 Start 4
22:55:30 Stop/Start 50 Further desensitizing interferometer since buffer is filling often
22:59:00 Stop
22:59:06 Start 3
23:09:42 Stop
23:09:47 Start 2
23:10:57 Stop/Start 60
23:24:37 Stop
23:25:11 Start 2 60 2 x100 100 N/A
23:29:45 Stop
23:29:50 Start 3
23:54:55 Stop
23:55:02 Start 4
23:55:50 Stop
23:55:55 Start 3 Large horizontal discharge saturated slow antenna several seconds earlier
164 12-Jun 0:11:40 Stop Disk almost full (/home on Sun IPC). Need to transfer data to PC...
0:26:30 Start 4 50 1 x100 100 N/A Sufficient data transfer complete; able to acquire data again on Sun IPC
0:33:55 Stop
0:34:00 Start 3 Decrease SA sensitivity again due to continuing presence of large discharges
0:49:20 Stop
0:49:24 Start 2 Decrease SA sensitivity yet again due to big discharges
1:40:00 Stop
1:40:04 Start 4 Activiity is more distant (and subsiding)
1:50:56 Stop
1:51:02 Start 6
2:10:02 Stop Activity is too distant
20:56:33 Start 7 40 1 x10 100 N/A
23:30:50 Stop Gust front just hit; need to desensitize SA (decrease gain setting)
23:31:00 Start 5
23:47:35 Stop
23:47:40 Start 7
23:52:06 Stop
23:52:10 Start 6
165 13-Jun 0:28:00 Stop
172 20-Jun 0:21:40 Start 7 38 1 x10 100 N/A
0:27:25 Stop
0:27:30 Start 6
0:34:00 Stop
0:34:10 Start 5 x100
0:46:56 Stop
0:47:02 Start 4
0:53:12 Stop
0:53:16 Start 3
1:11:40 Stop System locked up (this was later traced to 18 GB HD overheating)
1:19:46 Start 3 40 1 x100 100 N/A
1:2? "Stop" DSP(s) hung
1:22:25 Start 3 40 1 x100 100 N/A
1:24:05 "Stop" DSP(s) hung
1:25:45 Start 3 40 1 x100 100 N/A
1:32:38 "Stop" DSP(s) hung
1:35:17 Start 3 40 1 x100 100 N/A
1:44:00 "Stop" System locked up for ~50 seconds
1:44:50 "Start"
1:51:20 "Stop" System locked up again (for ~70 secs)
1:52:30 "Start"
2:01:30 "Stop" System locked up yet again
2:02:30 "Start"
2:03:30 "Stop" ...and again
2:04:10 5
2:04:20 "Start"
2:10:30 Stop
174 22-Jun 23:52:10 Start 4 40 1 x100 100 N/A
23:57:25 Stop
23:57:29 Start 3
175 23-Jun 0:27:20 Stop/Start 42 Attempting to decrease sensitivity. Trigger rate is very high on Sun Ultra!
0:39:40 Stop/Start 45
1:15:10 Stop
1:15:16 Start 4 Storm is (continuing to) receeding
1:47:54 Stop
1:47:59 Start 5
2:05:15 Stop
2:05:20 Start 6
2:50:15 Stop
2:50:20 Start 7
2:54:40 Stop
2:54:45 Start x10
3:50:00 Stop
4:24:35 Start 4 50 1 x100 100 N/A
4:25:45 Stop/Start 42
4:46:20 Stop Close lightning activity has ceased
5:50:28 Start 4 42 1 x10 100 N/A Close inverted storm?
5:51:55 Stop
5:52:10 Start 3 x100
6:05:00 Stop No more lightning?
20:48:35 Start 4 45 1 x10 100 N/A Anticipating close lightning (see notes)
20:49:55 Stop
20:50:00 Start x100
21:32:45 Stop
21:32:50 Start 3
21:46:35 Stop
21:46:41 Start 4
21:55:15 Stop Disk almost full. Waiting for ftp to complete...
21:56:00 Start
21:59:57 Stop /data.intf is ~full
22:03:45 Start 4 50 1 x100 100 N/A
22:09:30 Stop
22:09:37 Start 3
22:33:32 Stop /home almost full
22:33:45 Start 3 50 1 x100 100 N/A
22:35:54 Stop
22:36:00 Start 2 Infrequent occassional big static delta-E's from +CGs or overhead lightning
23:38:56 3 Region of horizontal lightning is moving to east
23:59:10 4
176 24-Jun 0:11:30 5
0:25:13 7
0:56:20 Stop
0:56:31 Start x10
1:53:10 Stop Lightning is too distant
22:05:20 Start 7 45 1 x10 100 N/A Isolated storm to west (see notes)
22:53:10 Stop
22:53:18 Start 6 Too much DC offset
23:32:00 Stop
23:32:07 Start 7
177 25-Jun 0:21:42 6
2:02:38 7
2:12:59 6 Too much DC offset
3:47:35 Vertical Baseline rack turned on (see notes)
4:52:00 7 No big +CGs, so OK to be more sensitive
6:52:10 48 Attempt to decrease trigger rate, which appears to be off of noise
6:59:07 "Stop" DSPs crashed
Last Modified By: Mark Stanley (stanley@ibis.nmt.edu )
Last Modified On: Monday, March 26, 2001  21:30:07