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Station Problems


The table below contains problems associated with stations. Open date is the date the problem was discovered. Status is the current condition of the station, as described in the following table.

Status Description
1No Data Is Being Recorded
2Partial Data Loss Or Gaps In Recorded Data
3No Data Loss - Minor Technical Problems
4No Data Loss - Long-term Problems
5Fully Operational

Each station has a link to its GSN station browser entry.

This table was created on 10/7/2008 (2008,281) 12:44 MST.

StationStatusOpen DateCommentsActionAction DateContact
ADK 3 2/15/2007 Wind generators not working at 100% needs replacement. PO was issued for wind generator. US Treasury check not received at ASL. 8/13/2008 GSG
ANTO 1 12/7/2007 Comm link between DA and DP is down due to power and phone lines cut in several places. Power is repaired, awaiting METU to fix comm line and power line. 5/27/2008 KEP
BILL 3 10/3/2008 Unable to connect to station Message sent 10/7/2008 SWM
BJT 4 9/18/2008 High Frequency noise on STS-1 Z NDZ
CCM 1 9/14/2008 Station needs autoload Message sent to ask operator to autoload 9/17/2008 SWM
ENH 1 9/18/2008 N/S STS-1 Bad DMA
GRTK 1 9/1/2008 Station went down after hurricane Ike. Likely solar panel damage Talked to Terry Smith and express interest in photos and update 9/17/2008 MAS
HIA 1 9/18/2008 STS-1 not hooked up only displaying digitizer noise DMA
HKT 3 10/5/2008 STS-1 E digitizer noise, Repair is beyond local ops ability Field team will need to be deployed Commuication established and decision to send someone made 10/5/2008 NDZ
JOHN 4 4/1/2008 Horizontals on CMG3-TB dead Station not easily traveled too. Replacement in near future unlikely 5/27/2008 MAR
KOWA 1 3/11/2002 Comm-link radios are all defective, seismometers are corroded, vault is a corrosive environment. Local helper damaged CMG-3T seismometer during maintenance visit. New equipment hut to be built by CTBTO. The station is inoperative and will have to be reinstalled with heat tested Trillium and STS2 when the CTBTO equipment goes in. 5/1/2008 NDZ
LSA 3 4/14/2006 STS-2 east dies on occasion and self heals. A replacement Seismometer was sent to site. Customs official would not allow entry and STS-2 was returned and shipped again. 2/15/2008 DMA
LVC 1 9/3/2008 DA deleting channels on startup New DA being prepared due to lack of technician on site 9/16/2008 NDZ
MA2 1 8/6/2007 Unable to reach station, Recording building burnt New DP tested and readied. Awating customs clearance. 8/28/2007 EPK
MAKZ 1 9/17/2007 DA shuts down when seismometers are connected Replacement equipment has been received, a team from Almaty did not deploy. 5/27/2008 DMA
MAKZ 2 2/4/2003 The data from the STS-2 are unuseable due to spiking. The problem started out slow but quickly got worse. Local operator was here for 2 weeks for training and to discuss problems. Working on site upgrades. 9/29/2006 MAS
MSKU 2 9/28/2006 STS-1's not functioning because of corroded FBE's Refurbished FBE boxes at station. Team attempted reviving STS1s. CCU power board defective and all cable connections and pins corroded. 8/20/2008 NDZ
RAO 1 9/22/2008 New VSAT battery charger draining batteries epk
SAML 4 8/9/2004 FBA-23 data is tracking the charge-discharge cycle of the Photo Voltaic (PV) array. This will require a FE visit and a DC-DC converter for isolation and signal cable ground modification.. 5/1/2008 MAS
SJG 3 6/30/2007 ISP internet connection dropping out regularly. Local tech having to reset ISP modem to restore A study is being intiated to correct problem using a VSAT. 4/21/2008 EPK
SSE 1 9/18/2008 STS-2 has low sensitivity NDZ
TARA 3 5/3/2008 Primary STS-2 sensor pulsing and has no usable data Host box sent but most likely installed wrong 7/4/2008 epk
TEIG 3 10/5/2008 Unable to reach station via VSAT Link Message Sent to alert Station ops 10/7/2008 JDE
TEIG 3 10/12/2006 #1 channel on KS36000i seismometer lost Will require FE maintenance visit to replace the seismometer. This is a 36000 which will be replaced with a 54000. 10/12/2006 DMA
TRIS 4 7/13/2004 Spiking on FBA-23 data channels Grounding the seismometer case did not solve the problem. Have not yet determined the cause of the noise. 9/19/2006 EPK
TRQA 2 9/1/2008 CMG-3TB blowing fuses New uphole control box being readied 9/1/2008 DMA
WMQ 3 4/15/2008 STS-2 sensitivity differs from STS-1, Message sent to operator to power cycle STS-2 and re-center. 4/15/2008 DMA
XAN 3 4/22/2008 STS-1 Vertical needs re-centering Message #2 sent asking operator to evacuate and recenter STS1V. Also
asked to check and give status on STS2 6db< gain problem. 9/12/2008 0:00:00 NDZ
YSS 3 8/13/2007 STS-1 Z response is off. We will need to send a replacement vertical STS-1, but customs issues need to be resolved first. 4/15/2008 DMA

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