Saturday, April 14, 2012

saipan station offline again (apr 12)

[An excerpt from an email sent from Miami on Friday, April 13th, 2012.]

Bad news, the data feed from the CREWS station has stopped again.

This occurred (in the various time zones of relevance) at:

Thu Apr 12  5:10:35 (Honolulu / HAST / -1000)
Thu Apr 12 11:10:35 (Miami / EDT / -0400)
Thu Apr 12 15:10:35 (UTC / +0000)
Fri Apr 13  1:10:35 (Saipan / ChST / +1000)

So it was it the early hours of the morning, local time, Friday the 13th.  I see no signs of trouble in the data feed -- no voltage spikes or drops, no drop in barometric pressures or rise in winds, no instruments going suddenly or suspiciously offline.

So my best guess right now is that the modem went silent again.  Recall that we still haven't explained why that happened on October 2nd, although we do know why the station itself died on October 4th.

Mike J+