Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log 
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Tue May 23 17:09:18 GMT 1995
Year: 95  Doy: 143
Observer: koon       console      May 23 17:07

WEATHER COMMENT: Tue May 23 17:09:24 GMT 1995
Thin to medium cirrostratus, wind=5 mph from the West, temp=40 F.

Tue May 23 17:14:18 GMT 1995: Patrol Start

LOW-L COMMENT: Tue May 23 17:29:48 GMT 1995
Program crashed at 0452 ut yesterday evening, apparently while shutting down
for the day.  The instrument head was stowed, the tape drive #0 display shows
the message "Display Not Commmunicating".  Removed L00242 and installed L00244
in drive #1, cycled Rack Power to clear the tape drive and restart the program.

Tue May 23 18:00:03 GMT 1995: Calibration

WEATHER COMMENT: Tue May 23 18:37:11 GMT 1995
Cirrus keeps getting thicker.

Tue May 23 19:00:00 GMT 1995: Calibration
Tue May 23 20:01:00 GMT 1995: Calibration

WEATHER COMMENT: Tue May 23 20:59:03 GMT 1995
Clouds are getting worse, shutting down.  Will save dPMon tape and recycle
the MKIII tape.
:03 GMT 1995: Patrol End


COMMENT: Tue May 23 21:00:20 GMT 1995
The Troubleshooter from HELCO came up today at my request to check the 
voltage characteristics of our power.  The power looked OK (but this isn't
Saturday) but he found a bad ground cable connector on one of the poles
along the road on the way up here.  A loose ground cable flapping near
live cables in the wind might have caused us some problems.  I kind of
doubt that this was causing the crashes but it was definitely a problem.
This is related to the rash of Low-l crashes and our trying to find the
cause of these crashes.


COMMENT: Tue May 23 21:10:39 GMT 1995
Activity report:
QP: 45; 65; 97; 257; 300; 334.
No coronal activity.

TAPES:
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DPMON: P00355
LOW-L: L00243 in drive #0

Tue May 23 21:13:16 GMT 1995: Filemark