EVENT LOG FOR SITE VC1

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11/06/2003 15:56 Dave
    Bill Wassard notified me today that both Valley Creek systems have
    mechanical problems.  The VC1 computer hard drive crashed on October 4.
    The starter on the VC2 generator failed on October 30; that site is
    operating sporadically, when sufficient radiation is available to its
    solar cell.  Bill will travel to Valley Creek next week to address these
    issues.
09/18/2003 15:22 Dave
    In response to a query from PTAGIS staff regarding recent gaps in both
    data coverage and file sequencing, Steve Achord replied that the area
    around the VC1 site expects black-outs of up to seven hours for three or
    four days.  C'est la vie.
07/21/2003 13:29 Dave
        VC1 was blown out by a flood event, apparently sometime on May 30.
    The last data file we have prior to that outage is VC103150.E, closing at
    14:22 on 5/30.  (There is no VC103150.D file.)  Trap operations resumed on
    July 9 but, due to some computer glitch, the computer clock did not
    advance to the current day, but rather resumed operations on May 30.  Data
    files were generated, and submitted to PTAGIS, for two days before this
    error was discovered and corrected.  Based on the observed shift from the
    'old'  timestamps to the 'current' timestamps when the clock was manually
    reset, I programmatically advanced every timestamp in VC103150.E - 152.D
    by 39 days, 14 hours, and 45 minutes.  I renamed all of the original files
    to the appropriate julian date, and replaced the extensions with an 'X'
    and a sequential integer, to denote the temporal order of the files.
    Current files for julian date 192 have file extensions with an "A", a
    digit, and an "X".  File VC103192.A4X was not transformed, but was renamed
    to fit into the resequencing of that day's data files.  There is no
    VC103191.X2.  References to the original files are documented in the new,
    transformed files.  I deleted all references to the original files,
    VC103150.E - VC103152.D and VC103192.A, from the PTAGIS database, and
    loaded the new, transformed data files.  No data were lost, and the three
    existing interrogations are now dated correctly, or at least closer to the
    correct date and time than previously reported.  I'm still waiting for
    Steve Achord or Bill Wassard to provide me with the list of test tags in
    use at VC1 and VC2; when I receive those tags I'll register them and back
    out the obvious test tag data currently ascribed to ORPHAN releases.
06/02/2003 13:42 Dave
        Bill Wassard notified us that both Valley Creek interrogation
    installations were flooded out sometime on Saturday, May 31.  The sites
    have been deactivated pending repairs and maintenance.  Per Bill's
    request, I turned site checking off for VC1; site checking for VC2 has
    been off since last November.  The last file received from VC1 was
    VC103150.B (ending at 12:00 on 5/30); the last file from VC2 was
    VC203150.C (ending at 18:00 on 5/30).
05/18/2003 18:35 Dave
    I surmise, from the time stamps when the VC1 and VC2 data files are
    uploaded, that these sites are reporting on Mountain Daylight Time (MDT).
01/01/2003 12:20 Dave
    Initialized new event log for 2003.  2002 event log has been archived.
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