TITLE: 04/03 Day Shift: 15:00-23:00 UTC (08:00-16:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 102Mpc
INCOMING OPERATOR: Cheryl
SHIFT SUMMARY:
EY issues to with PCal maintenance and then Beckhoff later in the afternoon. High winds for the past 3 or so hours greatly inhibited getting past find IR. Things finally quieted down enough to get back into the game. 16 CALCS diffs to accept everytime before Observe.
LOG:
15:58 Karen driving her vehicle to the woodshop and also to the OSB shipping area
15:59 Nichole, Elizabeth, Christina, and Betsy out to MX for property search
17:44 Betsy out to LVEA W Bay
18:07 Rick et. al are done and leaving EY
18:08 have been holding at POWER_30W for PCal work and some LVEA incursion - Obs Mods CORRECTIVE MAINTENANCE - just switched to LOCK ACQUISITION for remaider after PCal team reported finished at EY
20:34 winds in excess of 40mph. Settled on USEISM_MOD_WIND to get green arms to settle down, particularly Y-arm.
21:00 Locking is futile. Winds forecast to increase over the next couple of hours. DOWN
21:30 Fil and Marc out to EY to resolve a Beckhoff issue WP#8151.
22:00 FIl and Marc back
22:14 winds are slower and locking is commencing. fingers crossed.
22:54 Back to NLN/Observing