Date time wet(no,light,heavy) cloud cover(%) who notes 2/17/2016 00:44 yes,no blower,so heavy 70 w+c no blower,a lot of water on radiometer. 2/23/2016 1:49 no 100 w software breaks down,restart it 2/25/2016 1:17 yes 100 w drizzle outside, software breaks down. restart it 2/26/2016 1:26 no 10 w+c high clouds, most clear 3/1/2016 00:14 no 100 w low clouds,program has run several days without breaking 3/3/2016 00:33 no 100 w software breaks down. 3/8/2016 00:46 no 40 w software breaks down. 3/14/2016 21:59 no 100 w software breaks down 03/22/2016 00:29 yes 100 w software breaks down,low clouds Before 18_20160323_210004.dat (not included), time of mwr_18 was 109 seconds larger than mwr_38. Change MWR_18 to match with mwr_38 afterwards. 03/31/2016 02:00 no 20 w software breaks down, most are high clouds. 04/08/2016 16:28 no 0 w put the foamular-250 sheet over top 04/08/2016 18:00 no 0 r approx. time, just high cirrus, removed formular 04/08/2016 18:17 no 0 r put white styrofoam sheet in place 04/08/2016 19:24 no 10 r removing cover ... some altocumulus patches near and may be in LOS to west. 04/08/2016 19:50 no 5 r started putting cooler on top ... cleared area at 20:00 04/09/2016 18:07 no 0 r poured water on top of cooler (top and sides) ... program crashed and had to be restarted. poured more water about 10:09. Overnight large PWV,LWP suggest condesntation on cooler. 04/10/2016 17:20 damp? 99 r overcast, expect for small patch to west. machine appears to have crashed with "out of memory" error. Clock was wrong. Hand to reset clock and restart. 04/10/2016 17:34 no 99 r overcast, added strap and tape after restarting, till 17:34 04/10/2016 17:40 no 99 r Let cycle a couple of time, then put 4 quarters on top. readings before seem consistem with MWR18. PWV 1.02 cm, LWP 69 g/m2, tb23 24.76K, tb31 19.18K. after = PWV 1.45 cm, LWP 258 g/m2, tb23 36.76K, tb31 30.90K. 04/10/2016 17:45 no 99 r move 4 quarters to west side. no clear effect? 04/10/2016 17:51 no 99 r move quarters up ... still don't see clear effect? 04/10/2016 17:57 no 99 r move quarters up again ... auto restart on the hour ... still nothing ... I must not be reading the raw data file correctly? Removing quarters. 04/12/2016 12:29 no 99 w software breaks down, restart it; low clouds 04/12/2016 22:13 yes 100 w software breaks down again, restart it. It is raining, MWR18 gives 6.11cm PWV and 2.523mm LWP. however,MWR38 only gives 1.70cm PWV and 0.858mm LWP. check the side of MWR18, no obvious droplets attached to it but of course, there are lots droplet on the box. 04/14/2016 01:38 no 90 w software breaks down. This is a serious problem and it needs to be fixed!!!!!!! 04/15/2016 18:38 no 100 w+c software breaks down. 04/21/2016 21:25 no 10 r "internal error", restarted. 04/21/2016 22:27 no 0 c "internal error, out of memory error", restarted 04/22/2016 15:03 no 75 r liquid later above/to east. 1/4 of sky to west is mostly clear. 04/22/2016 22:06 light 100 c "internal error" again, light rain 04/22/2016 22:21 yes 100 r raining now, a bit bluster, rain on the cover west side (damp on east) but radome appears clear! 04/24/2016 16:21 yes 100 r mwr program crashed and had to restart computer. rainning heavily now, and has been bluster. side of covered MWR appear dry. uncovered radiometer is wet on both sides, and some on top. Blower is only partially effective. 04/24/2016 20:28 yes 100 w rain stops;has droplets on the top and sides. 04/25/2016 16:26 yes 90 r error again ... restarted. Was raining until ~ 1 hr ago. Still a few sprinkles. Covered is wet (large drop on edge) and Uncovered radiometer is mostly dry. 04/26/2016 02:27 no 40 w error again, restart it. No water droplest any more 04/30/2016 01:54 no 40 w error again, restart it. 05/18/2016 20:15 no 100 r+w error ... clock reset (4 minutes too fast). 5/21/16 20:30 stop both computer and switch the cables 20:50 restart both computer 21:02 pour water on the top of 18 5/20/16 16:31 no 80 w software run error, restart the computer. 5/30/16 21:54 put quarters on the west side 22:03 tear the quarters down 22:08 put quarters on the west side higher 22:15 take the quarters down 22:19 put the quarters a little higher again 22:27 cut the west side of foam 22:33 put the quarters on the east side again 22:37 put the quarters on the east side a little higher 22:41 cut the east side a little higher 22:48 pour water on the west side of foam and the east side is dry 22:54 Roger and I went to look at mwr 18 22:58 put the quarters on the southwest side 23:04 put the quarters on the northwest dise 23:08 pour water on the east side, mwr 18 crashes and Roger restarted it 6/7/16 18:23 no 10 w some cirrus clouds exist 6/10/16 17:16 no 60 w most are low clouds; Radiometer has no response.