EVENT LOG FOR SITE IHA Most recent activity to be listed first. First line of each entry lists date, time and who is reporting. Subsequent lines of each entry aligned under Time column. Do not use tabs, only spaces. Date Time Who What -------- ----- -------- ----------------------------------------------- 12/23/2004 14:50 Troy A GMC was performed 12/23/04. All transcievers were checked for tune and no problems were found. 12/10/2004 08:06 darren@r 08:LowExcCurrent: The current has changed and is now equal to the alarm level. I will PCA into the site and adjust the alarm level and PSMFC will investigate the change in current on the next site visit. 12/03/2004 08:50 alan@ruf 05:BadOscFreq: This alarm was created by PTAGIS Field Operations personel during a site visit. 12/02/2004 12:43 scottl Performed GMC, All transcievers were tuned and recalibrated as necessary. No major problems founds 11/18/2004 15:04 Troy A site GMC was performed today. All transcievers were checked for tune and no problems were found. PC2 is 32 seconds faster than PC1. 11/14/2004 12:44 dlwarf@r 0C:TestTagFailure,10:TestTagFailure: Noted. Will track for further instances. 11/12/2004 11:57 Alan Investigation into the elevated noise levels showed that two self-balasting light bulbs had been deployed in the gallery near the transceivers. I replaced those with incandescent bulbs and all is well. I performed a GMC and all 16 transceivers are in single digit signal levels. No other problems found. 11/12/2004 08:48 Scott_Li Noise levels on the right bank ladder are elevated to a point that requires attention.. Alan will be onsite this morning to address this problem. 10/30/2004 10:16 alan@ruf 0D:TestTagFailure: These alarms occurred before yesterdays site visit. 10/29/2004 11:17 Alan_Bro A GMC was performed 10-29-2004. All transceivers were tuned. The sensitivity and EQ were re-adjusted and the timer tag hit rate was set to 100 on transceiver 0D. No problems found. 10/29/2004 08:38 alan@ruf 02:Overrun,0D:TestTagFailure: I will look into these alarms today. 10/28/2004 08:22 alan@ruf 0D:TestTagFailure: PSMFC will address this detection system on the next site visit. The exciter report indicates that the noise levels have risen. 10/27/2004 08:14 darren@r 0D:TestTagFailure: PSMFC will address this detection system on the next site visit. The exciter report indicates that the noise levels have risen. 10/25/2004 08:09 darren@r 0D:TestTagFailure: This detection system will be addressed on the next site visit. 10/24/2004 08:33 darren@r 0D:TestTagFailure: This alarm appears to be intermitten. The transceiver may have drifted out of tune. The exciter report does not indicate any major changes in the noise or current. PSMFC will check the detection system on the next site visit. 10/23/2004 09:26 darren@r 0D:TestTagFailure: This alarm has been acknowledged and will be dealt with on the next site visit.It appears that the timer tag hit rate may have to be adjusted. 10/22/2004 08:03 darren@r 0D:TestTagFailure: This transceiver will be addressed on the next site visit. It appears to have possibly drifted out of tune, but the exciter report does not indicate any degradation in the tune. We may need to adjust the hit rate of the timer tag. 10/21/2004 08:15 darren@r 0D:TestTagFailure: The test tag and or the transceiver may need to be re- adjusted. The detection system appears to be in tune but this may have drifted out of tolerance. PSMFC will address this situation on the next site visit. 10/20/2004 09:21 darren@r 0D:TestTagFailure: I tried to PCA into this site and fire the test tag. I was not successful. We will check this out on the next site visit. The noise appears to be low and the unit is in tune. 10/18/2004 08:15 troy@ree 0D:TestTagFailure: Un-sure as to the exact cause if this one failure. PSMFC will monitor for future occurences. 10/14/2004 08:22 troy@ruf 0D:TestTagFailure: This transciever is alive and submitting status reports. The TT may need adjustment. It will be addressed on the next site visit. 10/13/2004 08:45 alan@ree 0D:TestTagFailure: No apparent reason for this alarm. The transceiver appears to be in tune and it is reading PIT Tags. PTAGIS Field Operations will continue to monitor. 10/12/2004 08:31 darren@r 0D:TestTagFailure: There does not appear to be any direct cause for the failure. The exciter report and status report both indicate that the transceiver is in tune and that noise is not excessive. We will monitor for future failures. 10/11/2004 08:56 alan@ruf 0D:TestTagFailure: No apparent reason for this alarm. The transceiver appears to be in tune. PTAGIS Field Operations will continue to monitor. 10/06/2004 08:23 alan@ruf 04:TestTagFailure: This failure occurred because the timer tag fired during th status dump. 10/05/2004 08:18 alan@ree 04:TestTagFailure: No apparent cause for this alarm. The transceiver is in tune and reading PIT Tags. PTAGIS Field Operations will continue to monitor. 09/29/2004 10:01 Alan_Bro A GMC was performed 9/29/2004. All transceivers were tuned, no problems found. 09/25/2004 09:39 alan@ruf 08:LowExcCurrent: These alarms were generated prior to the threshold adjustment. 09/24/2004 08:57 alan@ree 08:LowExcCurrent: I PCAd into PC2 and set the alarm threshold to 3700mA. This antenna is reading PIT Tags with high efficiency. PTAGIS Field Operations will investigate on the next site visit. 09/24/2004 08:19 alan@ruf 0D:TestTagFailure: No apparent reason for this failure. PTAGIS Field Operations will contiue to monitor. 09/23/2004 08:51 darren@r 08:LowExcCurrent: The exciter current and the alarm level or equal. I will change the alarm level via PCA to alleviate this alarm condition. The current has only dropped by .1A in the last seven days. 09/16/2004 09:09 alan@ruf 0D:TestTagFailure: No apparent reason for this alarm. The transceiver appears to be in tune and is reading PIT Tags. Ptagis Field Operations will continue to monitor. 09/15/2004 10:25 Alan A GMC was performed 9/15/2004. All transceivers were tuned, no problems found. 09/15/2004 10:25 Alan A GMC was performed 9/15/2004. All transceivers were tuned, no problems found. 09/04/2004 10:54 Darren Yesterday I was on-site to investigate the communications failure from both PC1 and PC2. When I arrived I checked the route and found that I could not get beyond the corps router. I phoned Pete Peterson and he explained that there was a broken T-1 line between IHA and Burbank. The problem was resolved sometime in the afternoon and the platform loaded without incident later in the day. 09/03/2004 08:53 Darren_C PSMFC will be on-site today to re-establish communications with both PC1 and PC2. We attempted to PCA into the site (both PC1 and PC2) this morning with no success. Darren R. Chase PSMFC Systems Engineer (509) 735-2773 ext.3 08/23/2004 09:11 darren@r 04:TestTagFailure: No apparent cause for this failure. We will monitor for future alarms. 08/04/2004 08:02 darren@r 06:LowExcCurrent: It appears that there may have been a brief power outage on the South shore. All the transceivers reset but not at once. PSMFC will monitor for future alarms. 07/30/2004 10:10 Alan A GMC was performed 7/30/2004. All transceivers were tuned, no problems found. 07/18/2004 09:27 troy@ruf 06:LowExcCurrent: The cause for the current drop will be investigated on the next site visit. 07/16/2004 11:45 Alan A GMC was performed 7/16/2004. All transceivers were tuned, no problems found. 07/14/2004 11:54 Darren PSMFC was on-site to replace transceiver 08. the power supply has failed and the transceiver will be returned to Destron-Fearing for repairs. 06/30/2004 12:01 Alan A GMC was performed 6/30/2004. All tranceivers were tuned, no problems found. 06/24/2004 08:27 darren@r 06:LowExcCurrent: This alarm was generated by PSMFC personnel while performing site GMC. 06/22/2004 15:56 Darren A site GMC was performed today (6-22-04). All transceivers were checked for noise and tuning. No problems were found. 06/18/2004 16:13 troy@ree 04:TestTagFailure: Failure may have been caused by status dump just prior to the tag firing. PTOC will continue to monitor for future failures 06/15/2004 22:57 alan@ree 02:LowExcCurrent,02:Overrun,04:TestTagFailure,06:LowExcCurrent,08:LowExcCu rrent,08:Overrun: These alarms were caused by PTAGIS Kennewick personel during a site visit. 06/15/2004 14:04 Alan A GMC was performed 6/15/2004. All transceivers were tuned. I increased the sensitivity and re-adjusted the EQ on transceivers 03 and 04 in an effort to improve that weir's efficiency. A self-ballasting flourescent bulb (read: noise source) was sighted down in the grout gallery on the south ladder. With the help of COE personel, the circuit that powers that bulb was removed, sigificantly improving noise performance. The COE is replacing it and any others on that circuit with incandescent bulbs. 06/10/2004 16:27 Alan This is a test message sent from the ‘legacy’ web interface. It should be deposited in the top-level directory of the Events forum. 06/08/2004 08:08 alan@ruf 03:BadExcFreq,03:BadOscFreq: These alarms were generated by PTAGIS Kennewick personel during a site visit. 06/07/2004 11:19 Alan A GMC was performed 6/7/2004. All transceivers were tuned, no problems found. 06/02/2004 14:15 Troy A site GMC was performed today. All transceivers were checked for tune and no problems were found. 05/30/2004 09:27 darren@r 08:BadOscFreq: There was no direct cause for alarm. The internal clock may have breifly shifted in frquency on the return causing the transceiver to switch to a "master" mode. This does not effect the efficiency of the transceiver and will be cleared on the next site visit by PSMFC personnel. 05/29/2004 08:38 darren@r 0A:LowExcCurrent,0A:Overrun,0A:TestTagFailure: These alarms were generated by PSMFC personnel while performing a site GMC. 05/28/2004 14:27 Alan A GMC was performed 5/28/2004. All tranceivers were tuned. Transceiver 05 was replaced due to timer tag issues. It will be sent to Destron for evaluation/repair. No other problems found. 05/18/2004 10:20 Alan A GMC was performed 5/18/2004. All transceivers were tuned. The timer tags on transceivers 0A and 0C were calibrated to a hit rate of 100 as their signal was too strong. Windows security updates KB837009, KB831167, KB840374, KB837001, KB828741, and KB835732 were installed on both computers. File IHA04139.F2 was submitted from PC2 to fill the gap created while PC1 was being updated. Both PCs clocks are within 1 second of atomic time. 05/10/2004 14:42 darren@r 0C:TestTagFailure: PSMFC was able to PCA into the site and place the transceiver into "standby" and then back into a read mode. This did allow the timer tag to fire. We will monitor this transceiver and adjust on the next site visit. 05/10/2004 11:53 Scott_Li PCA'd to the site and verified that coil OC is alive and well.. Issued a RA0, then RA1 in order to fire the timertag. The timertag is working again but this same exersise was done last Friday and the transciever failed to fire the TT after that. As posted in a previous pitevent, the TT hit rate may need recalibrated or the VTT pcb itself maybe failing...Will look into this in further detail on the next site visit... 05/09/2004 09:27 alan@ree 0C:TestTagFailure: No apparent reason for this failures, but the coil is detecting fish with good efficiency. PTAGIS Kennewick will recalibrate the hit rate on the next site visit. 05/08/2004 17:22 alan@ree 0C:TestTagFailure: No apparent reason for this failures, but the coil is detecting fish with good efficiency. PTAGIS Kennewick will recalibrate the hit rate on the next site visit. 05/08/2004 08:06 alan@ree 0A:TestTagFailure,0C:TestTagFailure: No apparent reason for these failures, but the coils are detecting fish with good efficiency. PTAGIS Kennewick will recalibrate the hit rate on the next site visit. 05/07/2004 08:56 scottl@r 03:BadExcFreq,03:BadOscFreq,03:LowExcCurrent,04:TestTagFailure,0A:TestTagF ailure,0C:TestTagFailure: BadOscFreq and LowExcCurrent alarms were generated during a GMC, As far as the testtag failures go, I PCA'd into the site and manually tried to fire the TT for coils 0A and 0C and the TT failed.. Issued a reader reset to each transciever, The TT's are now firing.. We have seen this happen in the past and as of yet have no explaination for it..It maybe the case that the TT's need to recalibrated, check the hit rates etc... Will further address the situation on the GMC... 05/06/2004 16:04 scott A full GMC was performed today. All transceivers were checked for tune and calibrated as necessary. Adjusted clock on PC2 to the exact time on PC1, PC1 is within 9 seconds of Atomic Time 05/05/2004 12:59 Darren PSMFC personnel noticed today that coil 04 at IHA was failing to read tags. Upon furhter research it was found that the transceiver had actually failed on 5-1-04 around 12:00. Because of the lower numbers it was not noticable but as the numbers increased it became more apparent that there was a problem. We do not have any information on timer tags for this site at this time so there was no way to tell that the timer tag had not fired. I arrived on site and found that the transceiver had tripped the 2A breaker in the transceiver power panel. This could be a result of a bad power supply or a blown diode (D1). The unit will be sent back to Destron-Fearing for repair. 04/29/2004 15:07 Darren A GMC was performed. All transceivers were checked for tuning and noise. No problems were found. 04/21/2004 15:24 Alan A GMC was performed 4/21/2004. All transceivers were tuned, no problems found. 04/06/2004 11:34 Alan A GMC was performed 4/6/2004. All transceivers were tuned, no problems found. 04/06/2004 08:25 alan@ruf 09:TestTagFailure: No apparent reason for this failure. It will be checked out today during a GMC. 04/02/2004 09:32 troy@ree 04:LowExcCurrent,04:TestTagFailure,08:LowExcCurrent,09:TestTagFailure: These alarms were caused by PTOC personnel during a site GMC. 03/30/2004 14:43 Alan A GMC was performed 3/30/2004. All transceivers were tuned, no problems found. 03/16/2004 14:37 Alan A GMC was performed 3/16/2004. All transceivers were tuned, no problems found. 03/01/2004 10:32 scottl PC1 was upgraded from MiniMon ver 1.4.3 to Ver 1.4.4 at 10:30 am pst. This version was loaded only on PC1 for evaluation prior to system wide deployment. One another note, a power outage occurred this morning but interrogation computers continued to run without interruption. 02/27/2004 14:40 Alan A GMC was performed 2/27/2004. The North ladder was tuned. The South ladder is still de-watered and was left as is. The buffers were cleared on all 16 transceivers. The 2003 files with a Julian date of 04048 and older were archived on each PC in c:\Program Files\PTAGIS\MiniMon\2003 Data. The clocks are set to within 1 second of atomic time on both PCs. Weep holes have been drilled in the J-Boxes on all 8 weir walls. No problems found. 02/27/2004 08:40 Scott_Li Per the shift operator at the project, the south shore ladder is scheduled to water-up sometime this weekend.. PTAGIS staff will be on site today to function check the PIT system.... Also for the record, Weep Holes have been drilled through the weir sill j-boxes on both the North and South ladders... 02/24/2004 09:44 Alan_Bro Pete Peterson from the Walla Walla district COE reports a network slow down. This could be affecting our 9:00 file loads. More information as it becomes available. 02/18/2004 13:38 Alan A GMC was performed on the North Ladder (the South Ladder is still de-watered) 2/18/2004. Transceivers were tuned, no problems found. 02/18/2004 13:03 Alan Security Update for Windows XP KB828028 was installed on both computers. PC1 was out of data collection for 4 minutes. No fish data was taken on PC2 during the down time. Both PC's clocks were set to within 1 second of atomic time. 02/13/2004 15:57 Troy A site GMC was performed on the North ladder. Coil 10 was found to be in standby. It was placed in Scan. Transcievers were checked for tune and no problems were found. On the south ladder the antenna cables were re-connected and the transceivers were turned on to avoid losing any data in the event the ladder was watered up and PSMFC was not notified by the COE. 02/12/2004 14:26 Don_Warf The winter water down length for the north ladder was from 2/2/04, 10:05 to 2/4/04, 15:45. 02/11/2004 13:06 Scott_Li While visiting the site today, it was noticed that the North or Right fish ladder was unexpectedly watered up. Do not have any specific information as to exactly when the ladder came back online, PTOC was not notified of this. The transceivers in the North ladder were in standby and returned to scan mode at 12:42 pst Feb.10,04. Will follow up with Rex Baxter to nail down outage schedules. As of today, the South or Left ladder transceivers are off but will be returned to service tomorrow Feb.11th after drain holes are drilled into the cast in place J-boxes. The South ladder is scheduled to water back up on Feb. 26th but may be postponed due to construction delay's on the Butterfly valves and fish attraction pumps. More as info becomes available. 02/04/2004 13:55 Alan Darren applied the latest critical updates for Windows 2/3/2004. This accounts for the 11 minute file gap. No fish data was lost as both ladders are de-watered at this time. 02/04/2004 12:06 troy While both ladders were de-watered a ladder inspection was performed and no problems will be found. The recessed boxes that house the antenna cable connections for each orfice antenna contained water. Each box was vacumed out and drain holes are to be put in in the near future to elimante this problem. 01/29/2004 16:37 Alan A GMC was performed on the North Ladder 1-29-2004. The South Ladder is currently de-watered. All transceivers were tuned, no problems found. 01/24/2004 10:29 alan@ree 02:TestTagFailure,03:LowExcCurrent,04:TestTagFailure,06:TestTagFailure,08: TestTagFailure: These will be addressed on the next site visit. 01/21/2004 13:14 Alan The new Rocket Port cards have been installed. PC1 was out of collection for about 1.5 hours. IHA04021.I, created on PC2 during that time, was e-mailed directly to Dave Marvin for submission. 01/05/2004 09:06 Darren_C I spoke with both Brad Eby (McNary) and Mark Plummer (Ice Harbor) and both confirmed that the de-watering of the Ladders (MC1, IHA-South) have been delayed due to the weather. Both sites report that the de-watering will take place later this week when the weather is due to warm up. 01/01/2004 12:00 Dave Initialized new event log for 2004. 2003 event log has been archived. ####End of Event Log for IHA###