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RRS Installation Day by Day Schedule

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Note: ART-2 installations will begin on Monday, ART-1 installations will begin on Tuesday.

Week 1 - Sunday:

Afternoon
Staffing rqmts:  IMET (2), IMET sub-contrator (1 min.), OPS11 (1), QSS(0)

  • INTERMET travels to location
  • Headquarters representative travels to location
  • INTERMET sub-contractors travels to location

Week 1 - Monday:

Morning
Staffing  rqmts:  IMET (2), IMET sub-contractor (2), OPS11 (1),  Site (3 min)

Deployment Team

  • Conduct in-briefing meeting (typical start time 8:00 a.m.)
  • Review of previously delivered documents.
  • Complete in-briefing readiness checklist
  • Review on-site installation activities for the two week period.
  • Deployment team briefs RWS INCO, RRS ATP, Operator Familiarization Training
  • Intermet personnel  brief Safety Program, TRS INCO
  • Review Safety Program requirements, Hot Work Permit and Permit-Required Confined Space permits signed (if applicable) and INTERMET authorized to begin ART removal work
  • Review other permits
  • Intermet conducts SAFETY meeting
  • Site walkthrough to verify cable run placement inside the WFO, radome inspection, conduit access holes, and possible problem areas
  • Perform/record inventory of NLSC Kit equipment.
  • Perform/record inventory of RWS equipment.
  • Perform/record inventory of TRS equipment.
  • Inspect the GPS Repeater installation, including receive antenna mounting and grounding, repeater amplifier placement and power source, re-radiating antenna placement and the radiosonde baseline locations and verify operation
  • Assemble and locate the RWS DCE enclosure

Site Personnel

  • Attend in-briefing
  • MicroArt decommissioning occurs, remove any remaining cables from conduit or LRUs from radome.  Note: Access to Radome will be prohibited after INTERMET begins ART removal.

INTERMET

  • Attend in-briefing
    • Present safety program discussion
    • Present TRS INCO discussion
    • Conduct SAFETY meeting
  • Begin dissection of ART system
  • Set up ASHTECH equipment and survey PDB elevation


Afternoon
Staffing rqmts:  IMET (2), IMET sub contractor (2),  OPS11 (1)

Deployment Team

  • Verify SPS firmware version and functionality.
  • Re-locate RWS to the final location and assemble
  • Begin RWS INCO (install RWS operating software and RRS operational software and complete peripheral tests
  • Issue request to initial issue second case of radiosondes

Site Personnel

  • Continue with removal of cable
  • Begin removal of ART Master Control Unit console in office.
  • Be available on as-needed basis

INTERMET

  • Complete the removal of ART equipment from radome
  • Install GPS antenna system in radome
  • Set up ASHTECH equipment and survey TRS location

Week 1 - Tuesday:

Morning:
Staffing r’qmts:  IMET (2), IMET sub-contractor (1 + 1), OPS11 (1), QSS(1 in travel), Site (as needed)
     
Deployment Team

  • Conduct daily in-briefing to outline the day’s activities (typical start time 8:00 a.m.)
  • Continue RWS INCO procedures which do not require operational TRS, and complete LDAD tests

Site personnel

  • Attend daily in-briefing
  • Complete remaining MCU scrap effort
  • Inventory and package LRUs for return to NLSC

INTERMET

  • Attend daily in-briefing
  • Complete collection of TRS geo-location survey data if not already done.
  • Begin electrical work and ground connection for TRS installation
  • Begin TRS installation

     
Afternoon:
Staffing rqmts:  IMET (2), OPS11 (1), QSS(0)

Deployment Team

  • Continue with RWS INCO procedures which do not require operational TRS to complete
  • Perform RSOIS survey
  • Install RWS DCE

Site Personnel

  • Be available on as-needed basis

INTERMET

  • Complete electrical work for TRS installation
  • Complete TRS installation
  • Remove remaining debris from radome, and broom-clean
  • Run fiber optic cables
  • Submit the PDB geo-location data to OPUS (24 hours after stopping Ashtech)
  • Provide RWS DCE to deployment team

Week 1 - Wednesday:

Morning:
Staffing rqmts:  IMET (2), OPS11 (1), QSS(1), Site (optional)

Deployment Team

  • Conduct daily in-briefing to outline the day’s activities.
  • Verify DCE comm ports baud rates
  • Completes RWS INCO (TRS communication test procedures may be incomplete)
  • Review proposed training schedule with upper air focal point

Site personnel

  • Attend daily in-briefing
  • Upper air focal point  provides preliminary training schedule

INTERMET

  • Attend daily in-briefing
  • Complete TRS installation activities in preparation for INCO
  • Submit TRS geo-location data to OPUS (24 hours after stopping last survey)

Afternoon:
Staffing rqmts:  IMET (2), OPS11 (1), QSS(1), Site (optional)

Deployment Team

  • Witness TRS INCO
  • Contacts NLSC to coordinate return of cannibalized LRUs
  • Completes RWS INCO as necessary
  • Update Station Information Screen to reflect geo location survey results (prior to first boresight flight)
  • Perform first boresight flight (QSS)

Site Personnel

  • Participate in boresight flight (optional)

INTERMET

  • Provide geo-location survey report to deployment team
  • Begin TRS INCO including first boresight flight

Week 1 - Thursday:

Morning:
Staffing rqmts:  IMET (1), OPS11 (1), QSS(1), Site (optional)

Deployment Team

  • Conduct daily in-briefing outline day’s activities
  • Remind site to issue PNS for RRS operations
  • Witness TRS INCO
  • Perform second boresight flight (QSS)
  • Perform preliminary radome inspection

Site personnel

  • Attend daily in-briefing
  • Participate in preliminary radome inspection (optional)
  • Participate in boresight flight (optional)

INTERMET    

  • Attend daily in-briefing
  • Complete TRS INCO
  • Delivers TRS INCO report

Afternoon:
Staffing rqmts:  IMET (1), OPS11 (1), QSS(1), Site (1 min.)

Deployment Team

  • Performs GPS repeater calibration
  • Begin RRS Acceptance Test Procedure (ATP)
    •  Conduct the RRS Initialization Acceptance Test Procedure (ATP).
      • The Site observing representative and Deployment team personnel complete the ATP form.
    • Complete flight packet with all appropriate documentation including first flight
  • Complete site-specific data table and provide to ESA

Site Personnel

  • Witness RRS ATP

INTERMET

  • Provides all site-specific data (TRS coefficients) to Deployment Team
  • Completes radome clean up
  • Support RRS ATP

Week 1 - Friday:

Morning:
Staffing rqmts:  IMET (1), OPS11 (1), QSS(1), Site (1 min.)

Deployment Team

  • Conduct daily in-briefing to outline the day’s activities
  • Sign and FAX CD-50 (paper) to NOAA Warehouse  for disposal of ART
  • Coordinate return of dumpster
  • Perform final radome/site inspection.
  • Continue RRS ATP
    • Conduct the RRS Release Detection ATP.
      • The WFO observing representative and Deployment team personnel complete the ATP form.
  • Complete flight packet with all appropriate documentation

Site personnel

  • Attend in-briefing
  • Perform final radome/site inspection
  • Witness RRS ATP

INTERMET

  • Attend in-briefing
  • Remedy outstanding radome/site inspection issues
  • Support RRS ATP

Afternoon:
Staffing rqmts:  IMET (1), OPS11 (1), QSS(1), Site (1 min.)

Deployment Team

  • Complete the RRS ATP
    • Conduct the RRS Message Generation &  Transmission ATP.
      • The WFO observing representative and Deployment team personnel complete the ATP form.
  • Complete flight packet with all appropriate documentation
  • Conduct ATP review meeting
  • Following ATP review meeting, OPS11 representative leaves
  • Re-install the RRS application software using actual site WMO number
  • Review final training schedule

Site Personnel

  • Attend ATP review meeting
  • Upper air focal point delivers final training schedule

INTERMET

  • Support RRS ATP

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Week 2 - Monday:

            Note:   Intermet will be responsible for fault isolation and repair of TRS failures experienced during the familiarization training period.

 

First Shift

Staffing rqmts:  QSS(1), Site (all operators who have completed RRS training)
     
 Deployment Team

  • Conduct a sounding at 6:00 am local time and perform the End-to-End Communication test (if successful, this will be the first flight of record).
      • Complete flight packet with all appropriate documentation.
  • Conduct the RRS familiarization classroom session starting at 8:00 a.m. local time (requires a minimum of  4 RRS trained operators)
    • Introductions.
    • System background.
    • Conducted Simulated Flight.
      • Using the RRS Checklist.
      • Radiosonde preparation and handling.
      • Release procedures and CDU training (CD).
    • Brief review of Rework.
    • Offline Utilities.
      • Archiving, zipping and transmitting flights.
    • In the dome, CDU hands on training (group 1) and/or Review second and third release procedure (group 2)
  • Review final flight schedule
  • If time allows, conduct special sounding for familiarization training.

Site personnel

  • Upper air operators who have successfully passed the RRS test participate in familiarization classroom session (4 hours)
  • Participate in special familiarization training sounding if conducted, participate
  • Witness End-to-End Communication test

 

Second Shift
Staffing rqmts:  IMET (1 on call), QSS(1) , Site (RRS trained staff as available)

Deployment Team/Site Personnel

  • Conduct 00 UTC RRS sounding (Familiarization Training). 
  • Dependent on site personnel availability, special soundings may be conducted (Familiarization Training). 

Week 2 - Tuesday:

            Note:  Intermet will be responsible for fault isolation and repair of TRS failures experienced during the familiarization training period.

 

First Shift
Staffing rqmts:  IMET (1),  QSS(1), Site (RRS trained staff as available)

Deployment Team/Site Personnel

  • Conduct 12 UTC RRS sounding (Familiarization Training). 
  • Dependent on site personnel availability, special soundings may be conducted (Familiarization Training). 

Second Shift
Staffing rqmts:  IMET (1 on call),  QSS(1), Site (RRS trained staff as available)

Deployment Team/Site Personnel

  • Conduct 00 UTC RRS sounding (Familiarization Training). 
  • Dependent on site personnel availability special soundings may be conducted (Familiarization Training). 

Week 2 - Wednesday:

            Note:  Intermet will be responsible for fault isolation and repair of TRS failures experienced during the familiarization training period.

First Shift
Staffing rqmts:  IMET (1),  QSS(1), Site (RRS trained staff as available)

Deployment Team/Site Personnel

  • Conduct 12 UTC RRS sounding (Familiarization Training). 
  • Dependent on site personnel availability special soundings may be conducted (Familiarization Training). 

Second Shift
Staffing rqmts:  IMET (1 on call),  QSS(1), Site (RRS trained staff as available)

Deployment Team/Site Personnel

  • Conduct 00 UTC RRS sounding (Familiarization Training). 
  • Dependent on site personnel availability special soundings may be conducted (Familiarization Training). 

Week 2 - Thursday

            Note:  Intermet will be responsible for fault isolation and repair of TRS failures experienced during the familiarization training period.

 

First Shift
Staffing rqmts:  QSS(1), Site (RRS trained staff as available)

Deployment Team/ Site Personnel

  • Conduct 12 UTC RRS sounding (Familiarization Training). 
  • Dependent on site personnel availability special soundings may be conducted (Familiarization Training). 

Concurrent with above:
Staffing rqmts:  IMET (1), OPS11 (1 via telephone), Regional HQ (1 via telephone) QSS(1), Site (3 focal points min.)

Deployment Team/ Site Personnel/ INTERMET/ Regional Representative

  • Conduct wrap-up meeting with site personnel.
    • Complete/initial Post-installation Checklist.
    • Deployment Team generates Installation Discrepancy Record
    • Site property custodian signs CD-509
    • Representative of RRS Program Office, Site and Region sign RRS Acceptance Certification
    • Contractor delivers redlined installation drawings (may be deferred)
    • Contractor submits DD-250 (may be deferred)

Second Shift
Staffing rqmts:  IMET (1),  QSS(1)

Deployment Team/ Site Personnel

  • Conduct 00 UTC RRS sounding (Familiarization Training). 
  • Dependent on site personnel availability special soundings may be conducted (Familiarization Training). 

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Last Modified : March 16, 2007
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