S15K (AEC)

Station Notes

Adopted by AEC
Strong Motion Sensor station only
AC power connection from sauna outbuilding to our enclosure box.

Service Plan

Site Access

Fixed Wing flight to Chignik Lagoon. Best option is to fly Lake Clark Air from Anchorage Merrill. Also possible to route from King Salmon on Grant, but is far less reliable.
John may be fishing in the summer (except in 2018 when they had one of the worst runs on record and he didn't fish at all). Both John and Colleen are helpful and friendly.

Site Contact

John and Coleen Jones, Spruce Cove Accomodations, tinkntoyj@hotmail.com

Site Visits

2020_02_12 Removal (Adopted by AEC-Not visted)

USArray Station Removal Report 
Form V1.5

STATION CODE: TA.S15K

STATION LOCALE DESCRIPTION: Chignik Lagoon, AK, USA

STATION REMOVAL LOG DATE: 20200212

STATION/SENSOR DOWN TIME (UTC): N/A

REMOVAL DESCRIPTION: Site was adopted by AEC and has not been removed.

ACTIONS TAKEN: Site was not visited during the adoption process. 

LAT/LONG OF SENSOR HOLE: N/A

Top of Casing to hole bottom (indicate if sand present or evacuated): N/A

Bottom of wellcap to grade level: N/A

SENSOR ORIENTATION MEASUREMENTS: 
Measured with Octans Unit: N/A
Measured with rods on pin: N/A
Casing/wellcap marked with reference orientation: N/A

SENSOR ORIENTATION: N/A

COMMENTS: GCI RBB site. Remote acquisition changeover from ANF to AEC.

REMOVED: N/A

DAMAGE: N/A

LEFT AT SITE: N/A

VISITORS: N/A

NEXT VISIT:  N/A

SITE STATUS:  N/A

HOLE STATUS: N/A

2020_01_31 Service (R. Bierma-Remote)
USArray Station Service Report
Form V1.0

STATION CODE:
TA.S15K

STATION Locale Description:
Chignik Lagoon, AK

STATION SERVICE LOG DATE:
20200131

STATION/SENSOR DOWN TIME (UTC):
station was off for several days

SERVICE DESCRIPTION:
AC breaker flipped off, station lost power.
UPON ARRIVAL:
n/a
ACTIONS TAKEN:
A phone call was made to John Jones, local landowner, for a station welfare check. He indicated that the power breaker had tripped in the banya building, they don't monitor it regularly, so the only indication that it was off was our equipment losing power.
John flipped the breaker back on. Station connection was confirmed remotely.

EQUIPMENT REMOVED:
n/a

EQUIPMENT INSTALLED:
n/a

COMMENTS:
It has been unusually cold in Chignik Lagoon most of January, near 0F with high winds. This doesn't affect our station performance since it has AC power, but is an interesting note, corresponding to the deep cold that has affected much of Alaska during the past month.

VISITOR:
remote service by R. Bierma

ON NEXT VISIT:
n/a
CHANGES AFFECT INSTRUMENT RESPONSE:
n/a
2018_07_11 Installation (R. Bierma)
Installation Report TA.S15K
Station Name: TA.S15K
Location name: Chignik Lagoon, Alaska

Location coordinates: (well cap, with handheld Garmin +/- 10)
Elevation: 17 m
GPS: 56.30584, -158.53996

Distance from borehole center to GPS antenna = 155"
Azimuth from borehole center to GPS antenna = 245 degrees

Dates:
Construction, 11 July, 2017 (UTC)
Installation, 12 July, 2017 (UTC)

Instrumentation:
Q330 TagId = 3536
Q330 sn = 010000044C8D8B64
Q330 bc = 5003806
Q330 ether ipaddr = 192.168.33.44
Q330 serial1 ipaddr = 10.1.1.2
Q330 serial2 ipaddr = 10.2.2.2
Q330 serial2 ipaddr = 10.2.2.2

baler sn = 16268
baler bc = 5007914
baler ipaddr = 192.168.33.2

Episensor Strong Motion sensor sn = 3822
Episensor Strong Motion sensor bc = 5003976

QEP sn 116892
QEP bc = 5001207

infra Setra sn = 4616391
infra Setra bc = 5011480

infra NCPA sn = H112080434
infra NCPA bc = 5012248

Communications - GCI Rural Broadband (RBB)
IP Address = explicit baler 192.168.33.2, port 5330 selected
Device: Ubiquiti NanoStation M
MAC address: 1732G 788A206815A7
public IP = 67.58.1.153
The RBB is powered with a Air802 PDCPOE1224DR 12V to 24V convertor (does not come with the RBB, ordered separately). It had to be powered off of the an SSR because it's startup current was too much for just radio power.

Device: Mikrotic router installed using standard TA config. In this instance, the GCI Sys Admin advised setting a static IP of 10.0.0.2/24; however, he said it works just as well on DHCP. When the Mikrotik was in DHCP mode, the RBB LAN issued 10.0.0.5

Power System
System 0 - Sys 0.2
no. 100 Amp/hr battery = 2
Comments: Extension cord plugged in inside banya. A hole was drilled in the wall for the cable. The extension cord connects to a Convert Simply AC-DC convertor. A rectifier on the DC side converts output to 15.3V. DC output is wired to yellow-ringed VIE cable.

Power System 0
Power Pnl ver. = Morningstar VIE
Power Pnl bc = 5013059
Power Brd sn = 617
Power Brd bc = 5011336

Notes:
The station is located at the residence of John and Colleen Jones in Chignik Lagoon. They also run the B&B in town. The sensor and enclosure are located near the side of their banya/sauna, and power is connected to a wall socket in the banya. The comms antenna and timing antenna are mounted to the peak of the banya roof. In order to access the side of the building for the installation, 5 foot tall vegetation had to be hacked down (mostly Cow Parsnip, beware). Expect there to be a wall of vegetation surrounding the enclosure box on future visits.

It will be helpful to note that with GCI RBB installations, expect a delay of at least 1 day after the RBB is first plugged in/activated for the networking group back in Anchorage to finish fully programming the static IP address and DMZ settings. There will be no dataflow until this happens (although there will be POCs through to ANF, it doesn't affect the UDP packet flow). After a couple hours on the phone with GCI, I was able to connect to a Sys Admin who helped push my trouble ticket along directly to the group and expedite the process. I will put his contact info, as well as other useful RBB install info into a procedural document.

OCTANS used for Strong Motion sensor alignment. OCTANS indicated 359.59º for sensor. No orienting foot or jig was used, the OCTANS was aligned as closely as possible by sight to the lines on the plate at the bottom of the casing.

Depth of casing to bottom of hole = 22", grade = 5", depth from TOC to mounting plate = 27". 10" polyester insulation fill in a stuff sack inserted at grade.

Installation Participant:
Ryan Bierma

Construction Participant:
Ryan Bierma
No Recon