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<span style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font color="#000000">All,</font></span><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font color="#000000">The following discrepancies were noted this<span> </span><span class="gmail-il">day</span>:</font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><b><font color="#0000ff"><br></font></b></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font color="#0000ff" style="font-weight:bold">Barrow.<span> </span></font><b style=""><font color="#0000ff">The Total Field component was restored at 1707 UT, on 8/21/18 (YD 233).   </font><font color="#ff0000">GOES Transmission are still not being received.</font><font color="#0000ff"> </font></b></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><div style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><div style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><b style="color:rgb(0,0,255);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px">Shumagin.  At 1805 UT, on 8/21/18 (YD 233), while doing some </b><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px"><b style=""><font color="#0000ff">maintenance at the site, acquisition stopped.  At 1835 UT, on 8/22/18 (YD 234) acquisition was restored.  </font><font color="#9900ff">Thank you, John Spritzer and Mark Nelson. </font><font color="#0000ff">  </font>

<b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font style="" color="#ff0000">GOES Transmission are still not being received.</font></b></b></span></font></div><div style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px"><b style=""><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font style="" color="#ff0000"><br></font></b></b></span></font></div><div style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px"><b style=""><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font color="#0000ff">College.  At 0729 UT, on 8/22/18 (YD 234), there was a bin change in the H component. </font></b></b></span></font></div><div style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font color="#0000ff" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><b style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,255);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Tucson.  What appears to be thunderstorms, caused numerous Artificial Disturbances from 1757 UT, on 8/22/18 (YD 234), through 0318 UT, on 8/23/18 (YD 235), and from 1643 through 1800 UT, on 3/23/18 (YD 235. </b><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" color="#0000ff"><span style="font-size:12px"><b><b style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></b></b></span></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:12px"><b><font color="#0000ff">Guam. <span> </span></font><font color="#ff0000">The recorded outside temperature values went bad at 0145 UT, on 8/18/18 (YD 230).  I have sent out replacement parts. </font></b></span></span></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" color="#0000ff"><span style="font-size:12px"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><b style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,255);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Dist.  The Shamagin plot is corrupted before </b><b style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><font color="#0000ff">1835 UT, on 8/22/18 (YD 234).  That is when acquisition was restored.</font></b></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><b style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,255);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br></b></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><b style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,255);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">SQ and SV. <span> </span></b><b style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,255);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">The Shamagin SQ and SV plots show an offset from 1824 through 1846 UT, on 8/22/18 (YD 234), caused by an acquisition outage.</b></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><b style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,255);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br></b></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><b style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,255);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Boulder E-Field. None.</b></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><b style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14.6667px"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:blue"><br></span></b></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><b style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14.6667px"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:blue">DST.    There is the <span class="gmail-m_191201099378880530gmail-m_-5394144089280471366gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">daily</span></span> offset in the USGS Dst-1min plot resulting from the corresponding data gap in the plot for Kakioka at around the end/start of each <span class="gmail-il">day</span>.  Also, at 0437 through 0453 UT, on 8/22/18 (YD 234), there was an 

<b style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,255);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Artificial Disturbance to the Kakioka data plot, causing a corresponding corruption to the 

<b style="color:rgb(34,34,34);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14.6667px"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:blue">USGS Dst-1min plot.</span></b></b></span></b></div></span></div></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br clear="all"><div>That's all,</div><div>Ed Sauter</div></div>

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