Recent service history:
99/05/04: DCB & SD replaced windbird on WeatherPak (#147). 99/04/27: DCB & SD replaced the solar regulator and the paccomm and called jim sprenke to see if he could talk to it, of course it didn't work. after much futzing around with it we decided to put the old one back in (jim said they got a few new paccomms that didn't work out of the box). anyway the reconfigured old pac. seems to be working, with the new weatherpak (installed last thursday). It looks like the wind direction could be off (just reading values and eyeballing it) need to check it against vman to be sure. 99/04/22: DCB replaced the WeatherPak (now #147) at CCUT on Thursday (9/22) but the PacComm apparently locked up when we tried to restart the system through the radio link. Will replace the PacComm with a new one as soon as weather and boat schedules allow. 99/04/19: Barometric pressure data dissemination for SSB was stopped over the weekend, as directed by Mark Luther, due to a failed barometer. 99/02/16: (Site visit DCB and LB): Cycled the paccomm and data started flowing. The connection on the batt etc look ok, but i didn't reterminate so i can't tell for sure that the wireing was fine. I think the power problem was the solar pannel which was pretty grody i cleaned it, and was getting 13.5v out of the charger at the batt. Right now ccut is comming in about 1 minute after vman and 2 minutes before manate (about where its suppose to be, i'll try to keep an eye on it in case the clock starts wandering again. When we finally replace that coastal climate system it would probably be a good idea to replace the paccomm and set REMS on so we can send it escape sequences from base. 99/01/20: The WeatherPak at SSB (CCUT) has had clock-drift problems since the battery failed last month. DB has reset the clock several times but it eventually drifts to the point that it attempts to transmit in another station's time window and is "bumped". He reset it this morning and it's working now. Our only spare is still at Coastal Climate for recalibration. 99/01/19: The harbor pilots' dispatcher reported that at about noon yesterday (1/18/99) the PORTS screen was reporting winds at the Skyway (CCUT) at 9 knots gusting to 8 knots. It bothered her that the gust value was less than the steady wind value, as well it should. I noticed the same thing (Winds 5 knots gusting to 4 knots) this afternoon about 1300 EST. Is this a software problem or a Coastal Climate WeatherPak problem? 98/12/19: ML and DCB replaced battery, but unable to reset clock. CCUT tries to communicate in the middle of CSX's transmission. 98/10/8: ML climbed CCUT tower and reset the Paccom, which cured the problem there. Battery is leaking acid around the negative terminal. 98/10/01: CCUT met appears to have a bad clock setting and is transmitting out of sequence. We still do not have the spare WeatherPak back from Coastal Climate, where it's being recalibrated. If needed, we can go out and manually reset the system when the weather calms down.Back