2023-01-18: For the 18th, 19th & 20th signals were not properly recorded due to a dodgy antenna connection. 2022-12-03: Moved shack to a new location in the house. Consequently, everything had to go offline for 24 hours while the move was made. 2022-07-04: Windows update followed by audio driver issues led to outage of circa 4 hours. 2022-02-27: From 2022-02-18 there were power connector issues with the TS450. Unfortunately, I only became aware of them on the 27th February. 2021-10-20: System grounded due passing thunderstorm 0130-0630utc approximately. 2021-09-21: An unplanned powercut in the area lead to an interruption of data collection between 09utc and 15utc. 2021-05-18: System taken offline at circa 1215utc as a precaution due local thunderstorms. System restored at circa 1800utc. 2020-08-20: System taken offline at circa 0830utc as a precaution due thunderstorms in the wake of Storm Ellen. Storm Ellen delivered a high gust of 77kts (108kph) here. System restarted as circa 1130utc 2020-08-13: Brief outage at 1230utc due reboot following software update 2020-08-12: Antenna disconnected at 2200utc due local thunderstorm activity. Reconnected at 0615utc on 2020-08-13 2020-07-08: Downtime due shack upgrade & re-wiring 2020-06-26: Returned to using roof mounted 21Mhz vertical antenna for reception 2020-06-16: System taken down due local thunderstorms. When brough back up, running temporarily on K9AY 2020-05-21: PC update requires restart. 2020-02-09: Mains grid power cut due to Storm Ciara. 2019-12-24: Upgrading shack wiring to eliminate local RFI issue 2019-12-23: Windows 10 updates caused unplanned PC reboot 2019-12-22: Windows 10 updates caused unplanned PC reboot 2019-10-26: Power lost to TS450 due lose connection. 2019-10-19: Ro-organising power and network systems in shack. Both had to be taken offline for a few hours to facilitate works. 2019-08-08 - 2019-08-15: Due a significant power surge over phone line from a lightning strike that occurred 1.2km away on the night of Thursday 8th August, significant damage was done to broadband and TCPIP network sub-systems at EI4HQ. It took some days to restore service... 2019-04-13: Due migration of Faros onto new server, recordings for this day are split over two sets of files. The second set of files are displayed by default. If you want to access the data from the first half of the day, append "-part1" to the normal filename before the filename extension. 2018-04-14: Due to a DC PSU failure at 04utc, safety trips took out all power to radio systems in the shack. Service restored at 0730utc. 2017-10-16: Power outages following tropical storm OPHELIA - EI4HQ suffered QTH structural damage. Highest gust recorded at EI4HQ was 90kts (166kph)... 2017-09-18: Power supply to TS450 interrupted. Power restored at 1942UTC 2017-08-23: TS450 loses DC power due dodgey connection. Power restored at 0309UTC on 2017-08-24 2017-06-11: Station taken offline to facilitate shack reorganisation. 2017-06-10: 1300. Final version of 15m GP omni-directional antenna installed at 93m ASL, no obstructions in the near field. 2017-06-08: During station work I pulled the power lead on the TS450 :-( 2017-06-03: 1830utc Antenna changed to prototype omni-directional 15m GP vertical. This antenna is as yet untuned and is installed only temporarily. 2017-04-17: Antenna changed to 21MHz dipole beaming 098/278 at half wavelength high to facilitate shack/antenna farm upgrade work 2017-04-17: Intermittent reception between 1600 and 1800UTC to facilitate antenna changeout as part of shack/antenna farm upgrade work 2017-04-15: from reconnection on the 15th (circa 1830UTC ish)until 0646UTC on the 16th, there was no reception due a shorted antenna connector. 2017-04-15: Intermittent service interruptions due shack upgrade work 2017-03-29: Some water got into the experimental 18MHz dipole. Signals will have been attenuated as a result. Repaired on 01/04/2017 1220UTC 2017-03-21: Antenna changed to 18MHz dipole beaming 098/278 at half wavelength high to facilitate shack/antenna farm upgrade work 2017-02-19: System rebooted, FAROS didn't restart (service resumed 2017-02-21 0645utc) 2017-02-08: Mains power supply interruptions overnight 2016-11-25: Downtime due power cut in the Cobh town area 2016-09-28: From 2016-09-28 to 2016-10-01 no data or only partial data was recorded due configuration changes being made to the host IT system 2016-09-25: Due to an audio configuration error following a software change, no data was recorded from PM on Wednesday 2016-09-21 to Sunday 2016-09-25 at 1040 UTC 2016-07-26: For some reason FAROS stopped band changing the receiver. Rectified at 0800utc on 2016-07-27 2016-07-17: 1442UTC; Stop testing active antenna. Revert to 40m end fed dipole 2016-07-17: 1400UTC; Commence testing with an active receive antenna mounted 13 metres above ground (1.2m whip with 20dB homebrew amplifier) 2016-07-02: FAROS put on standby for host PC SW upgrade, forgot to re-enable it... 2016-05-22: Station grounded as a precaution due thunderstorms in the area 2016-02-28: Faros accidently shutdown. Resume at 0638 on 2016/02/29 2016-01-23: Power surge occurred on the local grid around my QTH. This caused my PC's to reboot but thankfully didn't do any further damage (some neighbours were not so lucky and had electrical equipment damaged by the surge) 2016-01-19: FAROS software data updated to allow for callsign change on Hawaii beacon (from KH6WO to KH6RS) and to update some other beacon positions to improve detection accuracy 2015-12-31: 0600-0900. Station grounded due local thunderstorms 2015-11-26: To facilitate (sadly necessary) tree felling, the beacon antenna has been taken down for a few days; my battle creek special (80-160m) is temporarily on beacon monitoring duty. Signal levels will consequently be different to previously... 2015-10-31: System offline due a scheduled household power supply interruption as electricity company doing work in the locality 2015-10-25: EI4HQ is taking part in the CQWW SSB contest over the weekend of 24/25 October. Beacon reception will be intermittent due station transmissions 2015-09-05: 1645. Antenna disconnected for less than 15 minutes while moved to a new location. Operation from new location confirmed from 1655UTC September 5th 2015. 2015-08-28: From sometime overnight 28th into the morning of the 29th, an issue with the broader ham station resulted in the antenna inter-switch grounding the beacon antenna. No signals were recorded until 2200UTC on the 30th when the issues was detected. 2015-07-26: Station grounded for a period as a precaution due thunderstorms 2015-06-05: Dunno. Somethink funny is going on...* 2015-06-03: Something odd happened with Omnirig (again) that resulted in no data being logged from circa 0600-1800utc* 2015-05-29: I knocked out the power to the TS-450 2015-05-15: Omnirig froze up* +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + + + Please note that on March 12th 2015 the centre conductor of the + + antenna failed and connection of the centre conductor became + + intermittent. This fault was repaired at the first possible + + opportunity on April 19th 2015. Data collected during this period + + is very likely to have missed and/or underreported many openings + + due signal loss. + + + +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2015-03-18: PC shutdown (probably by Windows update) - rebooted at 1745 on 2015-03-19 2014-11-06: ...and then I somehow managed to turn off monitoring on 10 metres. Sheesh... 2014-11-05: I realised I'd paused Faros... (see below) 2014-11-04: I paused Faros for some unknown reason and forgot to resume it 2014-10-09: Reconnected the wrong coax cable :-( Realised my error circa 1700utc) 2014-10-08: Ligntning. System grounded as safety precaution (Three periods during the day) then reconnected the wrong coax cable :-( 2014-10-07: Ligntning. System grounded as safety precaution 2014-09-13: Due antenna maintenance, there may be some signal strength drop on this day 2014-08-13: From 1500/12th to 0900/13th the antenna was indavertently disconnected - originally disconnected due to a passing lightning storm, I forgot to reconnect it aftewards :-( 2014-07-12: I'm taking part in the IARU HF Championships contest. Beacon logging continues but I've a receiver interswitch that disconnects the beacon receive antenna everytime I transmit. Service will be somewhat compromised while I'm on air (until 12z/13th) 2014-04-22: Brief power cut at 1645utc 2014-04-17: (2000 to 2014-04-18 at 0900) Logging software killed Omnirig (rig control software) when it crashed 2014-04-07: (from 2100 to 2014-04-08 at 0600) Omni-Rig control software glitch - loss of band change functionality 2014-03-17: Omni-Rig control software updated - seems to have significantly improved performance... 2014-01-30: PC shutdown by Daughter 2014-01-29: PC shutdown by Daughter 2014-01-24: Unexplained PC shutdown 2014-01-23: Unexplained PC shutdown 2014-01-22: Unexplained PC shutdown 2014-01-19: Antenna repairs to solve issuse with water ingress 2014-01-17: Failed Windows update reboot. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + + + Please note that on December 26th 2013 water got into the antenna + + feed. This fault was only picked up and repaired on January 19th + + 2014 (sorry!). Data collected during this period is likely to have + + missed and/or underreported many openings due signal attenuation or + + loss. + + + +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2013-12-21: Ligntning. System grounded as safety precaution. 2013-11-14: Power cuts 2013-09-27: On air in preparation for CQWW RTTY 2013-09-04: Antenna unintentionally grounded 2013-09-03: Antenna unintentionally grounded 2013-08-31: Faros host PC mysteriously shuts down 2013-08-30: Faros host PC mysteriously shuts down 2013-08-08: Daddy finds out Daughter has shut down Faros on PC - restarted. 2013-08-07: Daughter shuts down Faros on Daddy's PC. 2013-07-25: Lightning. System grounded as safety precaution. 2013-07-24: Lightning. System grounded as safety precaution. 2013-07-23: FAROS software glitch. 2013-07-09: ++++ Operation commenced ++++