EVENT LOG FOR SITE BO4 The first line of each entry contains a date/time stamp & who is reporting. The most recent entry is listed first. Date Time Who ---------- ----- -------- 12/28/2011 07:09 Rclark@b 03:HighTemp: Unknown reason for this alarm. Reader temperature in status is normal. 12/08/2011 12:53 Darren PSMFC was on site to replace the capacitor bank on antenna 01. The bank was replaced last week with a value that did not leave enough capacitance inside the transciever. The value that was in stalled was 4850pf. this left a little over 10,000pf inside the transceivers. We will monitor this install it seems to have solved the high noise problems we have been experiencing over the past few months. 12/02/2011 07:58 darren@b 01:BadOscFreq,01:LowExcCurrent,01:Overrun,01:TestTagFailure: These alarms were generated by PSMFC personnel while on site to replace the capacitor bank for this system. The cap bank was discovered to be causing the random high noise problems that have been recently detected on this system. PSMFC will monitor this system and make any necessary changes. 12/01/2011 07:56 alan@bay 01:LowExcCurrent: This will be investigated today during a site visit. 11/22/2011 07:47 Troy@bay 04:TestTagFailure: This alarm was addressed during a GMC 11/21/2011. 11/21/2011 11:36 Darren A site GMC was performed today (11-21-11). The transceivers were checked and adjusted for tuning, noise and detectability. The issues with antenna 01 are still evident and could not be resolved on this visit. The noise is bouncing and the timer tag is in the high 90's with an occasional 100%. PSMFC is working on a plan to test this system to determine if the antenna connector is in need of repair. No other problems were discovered during this visit. 11/20/2011 10:42 scottl@b 04:TestTagFailure: noted 11/14/2011 07:23 Scott_Li XCVR 01 is noisy and needs tuned. Will respond on the next site visit. 11/05/2011 09:52 alan@bay 01:TestTagFailure: Known issue, under investigation. 11/03/2011 07:37 alan@bay 01:BadExcFreq,01:BadOscFreq,01:LowExcCurrent: Known issue, under investigation. 10/29/2011 07:56 darren@b 02:TestTagFailure: Alarm will be investigated during the next site visit. 10/24/2011 15:28 Alan Manually pushed BO411297.C1-E1 to PTAGIS. PTAGIS Field Operations will continue to monitor. 10/23/2011 06:40 rclark@b 01:TestTagFailure: This will be checked on the next site visit. 10/19/2011 06:58 darren@b 01:TestTagFailure: System is slightly out of tune and will be adjusted as necessary during the next site visit. 10/11/2011 06:03 Rclark@b 01:TestTagFailure: The exciter cable was replaced during site visit on 10/10/2011. 10/10/2011 15:24 Darren This posted on Sunday 10-9-11 to the wrong site. PSMFC personnel were on site on Thursday and Friday of last week (10-6 and 10-7-11) to try and solve the noise issues for the 01 antenna. We discovered that the cable may be the problem. we tried clenaing the sockets on the cable, they were very corroded, and re-seating the cable this worked but for only a short time. On friday we removed the pipe insulation inside the 2" flex conduit and tried re-seating the cable. We may need to replace the cable on Monday. 10/09/2011 07:57 Troy@bay 01:TestTagFailure: PSMFC is in the process of finding a solution to the issues with this system. 10/08/2011 07:18 Troy@bay 01:LowExcCurrent,01:TestTagFailure: PSMFC is aware that this antenna- transceiver system is experiencing problems. 10/07/2011 07:00 Rclark@b 01:LowExcCurrent,01:TestTagFailure: Low excitor alarms caused by PSMFC personel during site visit. PSMFC on-site today to address antenna cable issues. 10/05/2011 06:41 Troy@bay 01:LowExcCurrent: These alarms occured during trouble shooting of the system 10/04/2011 12:46 Alan Traveled to site to investigate low efficiencies on transceiver 01. Upon arrival found 01 signal to be 60-85%. The other three transceivers were operating normally. UPS and panel heater were ruled out. Swapped xcvrs 01 and 02. Xcvr 01 drove antenna 02 with no problem. Xcvr 02 drove antenna 01 with 8% signal. Swapped xcvrs back. Xcvr 02/antenna 02 are still good. Xcvr 01/antenna 01 now showed 7-9% signal. Checked the connector on antenna 01, it appears fine. Retuned 01 and slightly adjusted the HPF, signal is now 1-3%. It appears that jostling the equipment helped, it could be the antenna or the transceiver. Will discuss in the office tomorrow. 09/30/2011 06:28 scottl@b 04:TestTagFailure: Noted 09/29/2011 06:40 alan@bay 04:TestTagFailure: A PIT tag was in the field when the timer tag was fired. 09/27/2011 06:35 alan@bay 04:LowExcCurrent: These alarms were generated by PTAGIS Field Operations personnel during a site visit. 09/26/2011 10:51 Alan A GMC was performed 9-26-2011. All transceivers were checked and tuned as necessary. Outstanding files on PC2 were archived. Both PCs are within one second of atomic time. No problems found. 09/19/2011 06:55 alan@bay 04:TestTagFailure: A PIT tag was in the field when the timer tag was fired. 09/12/2011 06:41 darren@b 04:TestTagFailure: System has drifted slightly out of tune. It will be adjusted as necessary on the next site visit. 09/11/2011 06:35 rclark@b 04:TestTagFailure: Noted. 09/08/2011 06:01 Rclark@b 01:LowExcCurrent: This alarm was caused by psmfc personel during site visit. 09/07/2011 13:02 Troy A site GMC was performed 09/07/2011. All transceivers were checked for tune and adjustments made where needed. 01 seems slightly elevated in noise but could not tune it out (2-3 with current at 5.4A). No other problems to report. 08/31/2011 06:23 Scott_Li Performed site GMC, no problems to report. One observation, there is a low frequency humming noise comming from a submersible pump located near antenna 01. The hum and vibration is so bad that the sun shade for 01 is vibrating but this does not seem to have any adverse effect this antenna or transceiver. Hit rates are all at 100 percent. 08/29/2011 06:51 Troy@bay 01:TestTagFailure: This will be addressed tomorrow during a scheduled GMC. 08/22/2011 06:39 darren@b 04:TestTagFailure: No direct cause for this alarm. PSMFC personnel will be on site during this week and will investigate and make any necessary adjustments to the system. 08/11/2011 06:41 darren@b 02:LowExcCurrent: This alarm was generated by PSMFC personnel while performing a site GMC. 08/10/2011 12:01 Alan A GMC was performed 8-10-2011. All transceivers were checked and tuned as necessary. Outstanding files on PC2 were archived. Both PCs are within one second of atomic time. No problems to report. 08/06/2011 07:57 Troy@bay 04:LowExcCurrent: This will be addressed on the next site visit. 08/04/2011 06:44 Troy@bay 04:LowExcCurrent: This alarm will be addressed on the next site visit. 08/02/2011 06:59 darren@b 04:LowExcCurrent: PSMFC will investigate where the threshold is set and make any necessary adjustments. The current is only changing by 200mA 08/01/2011 07:18 Troy@bay 04:LowExcCurrent: This will be addressed on the next site visit. 07/30/2011 07:36 rclark@b 04:TestTagFailure: Unknown cause for this one time failure. Transceiver is reading at high efficiency. 07/22/2011 13:34 Troy@bay 04:TestTagFailure: This will be addressed on the next site visit. 07/17/2011 08:08 darren@b 04:LowExcCurrent: No direct cause for the 200mA drop in current. The threshold will be adjusted if necessary. The system is detecting with high efficiency. 07/15/2011 10:07 Roger Performed site GMC on 7/15/2011. All transceivers were checked for tune and adjusted as needed. PC1 and PC2 are within 1 second of atomic time and each other. No problems to report. 07/11/2011 06:47 darren@b 03:TestTagFailure: The failure was caused by a tag being in the field while the timer tag was being fired. 07/09/2011 09:02 scottl@b 02:Overrun,04:TestTagFailure: Noted 07/07/2011 07:06 Alan Blueback was rebooted for maintenance at ~16:20 PDT 7-6-2011. The following files were not loaded and were submitted manually the morning of 7-7-2011: BO211187.E1, BO411187.E1, ESJ11187.E1, GOJ11187.105, GRA11187.105, GRJ11187.105, LMJ11187.108, ROZ11187.E1. No further issues exist. 07/06/2011 12:08 Alan A GMC was performed 7-6-2011. All transceivers were checked and tuned as necessary. The clocks on both PCs are within one second of atomic time. Outstanding files on PC2 were archived. No problems to report. 07/01/2011 07:12 Rclark@b 04:LowExcCurrent: This alarm was caused by PSMFC staff during a GMC. 07/01/2011 07:11 Rclark@b 01:LowExcCurrent: The current alarm level was lowered on 6/30/2011 during a site visit. 06/30/2011 11:58 Roger Performed site GMC on 6/30/2011. All transceivers were checked for tune and adjusted as needed. The current alarm threshold on 01 was lowered by 0.2A. Adjusted the receive tuning capacitor and filter pots on transceiver 04 to improve reading efficiency. PC1 and PC2 are within 1 second of atomic time and each other. No other problems to report. 06/29/2011 06:58 Rclark@b 01:LowExcCurrent: This will be addressed during the next site visit. 06/28/2011 07:12 Rclark@b 01:LowExcCurrent: This will be investigated at next site visit. System is working at high efficiency. 06/23/2011 10:32 Roger Performed site GMC on 6/23/2011. All transceivers were checked for tune and adjusted as needed PC1 is 6 seconds behind atomic time. PC2 is within 1 second of atomic time. No problems to report. 06/22/2011 07:11 Troy Manually pushed the delinquent file. 06/16/2011 10:48 Roger Performed site GMC on 6/16/2011. All transceivers were checked for tune and adjusted as needed. PC1 is 5 seconds behind atomic time. PC2 is 38 seconds behind atomic time. No problems to report. 06/07/2011 11:53 Roger Performed site GMC on 6/7/2011. All transceivers were checked for tune and adjusted as needed. PC1 is 25 seconds behind atomic time. PC2 is within 1 second of atomic time. No problems to report. 06/03/2011 11:23 Troy A site GMC was performed 06/03/2011. All transceivers were checked for tune and adjustments made where needed. There appears to be some noise present. 03 is the worst with spikes into the teens.01 is in the 0-3 range. 02 is pretty quite, bouncing up to 1 occasionally. 04 is quiet. The reading efficiencies on these transceivers has improved greatly since the dimmer switch was replaced. PSMFC will continue to monitor this situation. 05/19/2011 07:38 Troy@bay 01:LowExcCurrent: It appears these alarms occurred during a site GMC. Clearing TASS. 05/17/2011 10:39 Darren A site GMC was performed today (5-17-11). The transceivers on antennas 01-03 were noisy (3-30%) but 04 was only as high as 5-6%. I tried everything to tune the noise out but I had no success. PSMFC is aware of the dimmer switch in the counting room and is performing test to try and rectify this noise problem. The clock on PC2 was almost 3 minutes off of atomic time so it was adjusted, PC1 is within 20 seconds of atomic time. No other problems were discovered. 05/11/2011 07:11 darren@b 01:TestTagFailure: The system has developed some noise.It will be investigated today during a site GMC. 05/05/2011 14:01 Scottl Extensive efforts were made to find the noise. While the source of the noise was located more questions were raised than answered. The source of the noise is the tract lighting of the counting window which is controlled by a dimmer switch. This lighting has been in operation longer than the slots have had antennas so the question is what has changed that is allowing the tract lighting to effect the antennas now when it had no effect the first couple of years the slots were in operation? We know that there have been changes to the elevator system, we know there was an issue with the elevator last summer (~when the noise problem started to show up) we know that the elevator repair people were on site earlier this week to work on the elevator and we know that the noise problem 'broke pattern' earlier this week. We are going to get the contact information for the elevator repair company so that we can cross reference when they made changes with variations in the noise pattern and hopefully find out what they may or may not have done to cause the tract lighting to effect the transceivers now. The counting window personnel stated that they rarely adjust the dimmer switch and it is not on all the time, sometimes in the summer during the day they will shut it off. Once again this kind of information does not line up with the noise pattern but when the breaker is shut off for these lights the signal level goes to 0, if the dimmer switch is off noise is minimal. PSMFC will continue to try and resolve this problem in the near future. 04/28/2011 06:35 Rclark@b 01:TestTagFailure: Transceiver 01 replaced on 4/27/11. 04/27/2011 12:14 Roger Transceiver 01 (s/n 0612-05 Asset # 4015) was swapped out today with a replacement reader (s/n 0612-09 Asset # 4006). Replacement reader was tuned, noise levels checked, test tag performance checked, and communications was tested with Minimon. Noise levels are back to normal. 04/26/2011 11:02 Roger Performed GMC on 4/26/2011. Tuned all transceivers for noise level and detectability. Reader 01 has high noise levels and the phase seems to vary up and down by 1. Reader 03 still has the known high noise levels. PC2 is 50 seconds behind atomic time. PC1 is 24 seconds behind atomic time. No other problems to report. 04/26/2011 07:37 alan@bay 01:TestTagFailure: This will be investigated today during a site visit. 04/23/2011 10:14 alan@bay 01:Overrun: This will be addressed during the next site visit. 04/21/2011 09:38 scottl Performed site GMC, the noise levels on all transceivers were around 5 to 20 percent and could not be tuned any better. 04/17/2011 07:22 darren@b 01:TestTagFailure,03:TestTagFailure: These alarms will be addressed during the next site GMC. 04/15/2011 11:31 scottl Retuned all transceivers, 01 was at 80 to 90 percent noise, cycled power on reader and noise levels were reduced to 2-4 percetn. It appears that the reader could be failing. Will replace if necessary next week while onsite. 04/15/2011 07:25 darren@b 03:TestTagFailure: This system has drifted out of tune. PSMFC is on site and will address this today. 04/14/2011 07:46 darren@b 02:LowExcCurrent: This alarm was generated by PSMFC personnel during a site GMC and noise testing. 04/13/2011 09:23 Darren A site GMC was performed today (4-13-11). PSMFC also was conducting a noise test with the Park rangers to see if the visitors facility is causing the noise that has been noticed between the hours of 08:00 and 17:00 on all transceivers. Transceiver 01 was not experiencing any noise until after the test were concluded and remains at 50%. All systems that were turned on in the process of opening up of the visitors facility were turned off but the noise remained. No answers to the noise were found but we will conitnue to investigate every possibility. 04/07/2011 11:44 Darren A site GMC was performed today (4-7-2011). The transceivers were adjusted for tuning, noise, and detectability. The noise issue is still present, antenna 03 still being the most effected. PSMFC is still conducting searches for the noise. No other problems were discovered during this visit. 03/31/2011 11:08 Roger Performed GMC. Checked and tuned tranceivers. No problems to report. 03/16/2011 07:22 Troy Pushed the delinquent file. 03/13/2011 09:31 darren@b 01:Overrun: This alarm will be investigated during the next site visit. 03/10/2011 08:04 Troy@bay 01:TestTagFailure,03:LowExcCurrent,04:LowExcCurrent: These alarms were generated during a GMC. 03/09/2011 11:21 Troy A site GMC was performed 03/09/2011. All 4 transceivers were out of tune. All were and are experiencing higher than normal noise levels that can not be tuned out. A cursory look around revealed nothing out of the ordinary. I stepped into the what appeared to be the trailer that housed the sea lion deterrent equipment and everything is powered down. 03 is experiencing the most noise. It should be noted that 01 at B03 was not at 100% Signal level, it was more in the 50% range. No other problems to report. 03/09/2011 08:45 alan@bay 01:TestTagFailure: Most likely this is due to tuning. This will be addressed during the next site visit. 03/08/2011 07:50 alan@bay 01:TestTagFailure: This will be addressed during the next site visit. 03/07/2011 07:21 darren@b 01:TestTagFailure: This system is out of tune and will be addressed during the next site visit. 03/06/2011 08:23 Troy@bay 01:TestTagFailure: This alarm will be addressed on the next site visit. 03/05/2011 06:34 Troy@bay 01:TestTagFailure: This will be addressed on the next site visit. 03/04/2011 07:48 Troy@bay 01:TestTagFailure,04:TestTagFailure: These alarms will be addressed on the next site visit. 03/02/2011 08:42 cloughd@ TASSprocessing for BO4 has been reinstated. It had been suspended on 18 Dec10, because the site had been de-watered and consequently wasgenerating lots of alarms and noise data. -Doug Clough- 03/02/2011 07:34 Alan The Washington shore ladders watered up for the season at ~15:00 2/24/2011. 02/04/2011 08:17 Alan Scott and I remotely re-established the tunnel to Bonneville, first attempt from the Sellwood Sonicwall and then from the Bonneville Sonicwall. 02/03/2011 07:32 Alan Centurylink reports an outage at Bonneville. ETA for internet connectivity is 9:00 today. 01/19/2011 07:26 darren@b 01:TestTagFailure: Site Down. Clearing TASS. 01/14/2011 13:03 Don_Warf All DSL connectivity is now restored. From: Don Warf Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 9:40 AM To: 'pitevent@psmfc.org' Cc: Chris Matthews Subject: bo1,bo2,bo3,bo4,bcc,b2j,jdj,pro We are currently experiencing a DSL outage at these sites. Connectivity was lost at 9:02. Centurylink reports that the outage covers the states of Oregon and Washington. They estimate the outage will last until 11:00pm tonight. More soon. 01/14/2011 09:39 Don_Warf We are currently experiencing a DSL outage at these sites. Connectivity was lost at 9:02. Centurylink reports that the outage covers the states of Oregon and Washington. They estimate the outage will last until 11:00pm tonight. More soon. 01/01/2011 00:00 PTOC_Bot Annual log file initiation for BO4 #### End of Event Log for BO4 ###