Image of the Week directory from previous years: 2004

Image of December 31, 2005:

Initial more than five year old HPWREN topology
(pointer to the up to date version)


Image of December 24, 2005:

Temeku bridge project work at the SDSU Santa Margarita Ecological Reserve

Photo by Pablo Bryant


Image of December 17, 2005:

Up the tower, at an HPWREN backbone site


Image of December 10, 2005:

View of the Cuyamaca Mountains from the Palomar Observatory


Image of December 3, 2005:

Jim Hale installing an HPWREN antenna on November 30, 2005, at the CDF camp at Puerta La Cruz


Image of November 26, 2005:

HPWREN connection at the Mt. Laguna Observatory on a wooden pole, since its installation more than five years ago


Image of November 19, 2005:

View of the desert towards Toro Peak from the Mt. Laguna HPWREN backbone site


Image of November 12, 2005:

Melinda Booth of the California Wolf Center is experimenting with a high-resolution camera and a PDA for distance education, using wireless video and two-way audio


Image of November 5, 2005:

Bud Hale installing a support antenna on a microwave tower for the Border 50 fire ICP on October 6, 2005


Image of October 29, 2005:

Michael Peralta of TDVnet, working on a tower at one of their backbone sites, located at about 6400' elevation on Mt. Laguna


Image of October 22, 2005:

Inside of a satellite receiver, after the closed unit had been used by cats as a warm and cozy sleeping spot for years


Image of October 15, 2005:

The California Wolf Center pups born in April are growing

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Image of October 8, 2005:

Border 50 Fire Incident Command Post supported by an HPWREN link


Image of October 2, 2005:

Cuyamaca Mountains antenna pointing towards the Palomar Observatory, with newly installed tieback


Image of September 24, 2005:

Tom Scott, Dean, SDSU College of Sciences, presenting at the 2005 HPWREN Annual Users Workshop at the Santa Margarita Ecological Reserve


Image of September 17, 2005:

The HPWREN data link supporting the Incident Command Post for the Volcan Fire was in place until September 12, 2005


Image of September 10, 2005:

Helicopter airdrop on September 7, 2005, during the Volcan Fire near Julian

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Image of September 3, 2005:

View towards the La Cima area from the Cuyamaca mountains


Image of August 27, 2005:

Just another day for firefighters at the Ramona Air Attack Base....

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Image of August 20, 2005:

View from the Lyons Peak HPWREN backbone site on August 17, 2005


Image of August 13, 2005:

Pablo Bryant and Ron Serabia receiving 11GHz antennas at SDSU's tower.

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Image of August 6, 2005:

Bud Hale and Pablo Bryant are preparing an SDSU tower for antenna replacements.

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Image of July 30, 2005:

Pablo Bryant participating in a July 26th antenna installation on Mt. Soledad.


Image of July 23, 2005:

Returning from Lyons Peak after replacing sensors at a CDF site that are used by firefighters.


Image of July 16, 2005:

July 5 fire area which firefighters got extinguished right before it would have burned a TDVnet relay. Thanks, CDF!

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Image of July 9, 2005:

California Wolf Center puppies ready to pounce on each other.

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Image of July 2, 2005:

Cactus flower at the Puerta La Cruz designated CDF ICP site.


Image of June 25, 2005:

Equipment at the HPWREN backbone site on Mt. Laguna.


Image of June 18, 2005:

Pablo Bryant and Bud Hale after a successful removal of an eight foot antenna on Mt. Woodson.


Image of June 11, 2005:

One of several new Alaskan wolf pups born about April 30 at the California Wolf Center, as seen by the HPWREN automated motion-detect camera.

Two more images: (2) and (3).

Some initial howls from a recently deployed acoustics sensor at the Wolf Center, after a high-pass filter plus amplification using the baudline signal analysis tool, to reduce the wind noise wind noise: (1) and (2).

A different and longer howl file, post-processed by Erik Olson with his baudline processor to filter out some of the wind.

Another set of howls.


Image of June 4, 2005:

Antenna installation on San Clemente Island


Image of May 28, 2005:

Newly installed fire sensor at the perimeter of the SDSU Santa Margarita Ecological Reserve.

More photos:
http://hpwren.ucsd.edu/Photos/20050528


Image of May 21, 2005:

Test of a 360 degree camera.


Image of May 14, 2005:

Right outside the window of the "HPWREN Headquarter," a hummingbird is waiting for eggs to hatch.

More photos:
http://hpwren.ucsd.edu/Photos/20050513


Image of May 7, 2005:

Pablo Bryant's May 2005 photo of this Santa Margarita Ecological Reserve inhabitant was taken on his belly from about 4' away. The Red Diamond Rattlesnake was 4-5 feet long and about 2.5 inches in diameter.

More photos:
http://hpwren.ucsd.edu/Photos/20050506


Image of April 30, 2005:

With the beginning of the 2005 fire season upon us, the OV-10 at the CDF air base in Ramona is about to take off on an April 30th flight.


Image of April 23, 2005:

Pablo Bryant is installing a 3 megapixel network camera on a tower at the Santa Margarita Ecological Reserve on April 20, 2005.


Image of April 16, 2005:

This April 14, 2005 photo by Jim Hale shows Bud Hale install a 4 foot antenna above the HPWREN 8 foot antenna on Pt. Loma.


Image of April 9, 2005:

During the dedication ceremony of a NEES facility at Camp Elliot, a concrete column was destroyed.

More photos:
http://hpwren.ucsd.edu/Photos/20050407

More information:
http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/Englekirk


Image of April 2, 2005:

Regrowth in a previous burn area, surrounding the Dos Picos relay


Image of March 26, 2005:

Corroded contacts: a prime example of a failure cause. In this case from the PoE feeder line of a tower-mounted radio.


Image of March 19, 2005:

SDSU's Field Station Programs staff finished a new telecommunications site in the highlands of the Santa Margarita Ecological Reserve.


Image of March 11, 2005:

Bud Hale on March 10, 2005, transporting an 8 foot antenna from Ramona to Pt. Loma.


Image of March 4, 2005:

A view of Toro Peak as seen on March 3, 2005, from Mt. Laguna. Weather is impacting some access link to Toro Peak.

More photos:
http://hpwren.ucsd.edu/Photos/20050301
http://hpwren.ucsd.edu/Photos/20050303


Image of February 27, 2005:

A wind sensor on Mt. Laguna that broke in violent weather, and which is soon to be replaced by a heated sonic model.

More photos: http://hpwren.ucsd.edu/Photos/20050113


Image of February 18, 2005:

A successful network/sensor equipment air drop on February 15, 2005 at the SDSU Santa Margarita Ecological Reserve is about to be unhooked.

More photos: http://hpwren.ucsd.edu/Photos/20050215


Image of February 11, 2005:

On February 8, 2005 Bud and Jim Hale, and Dan Zieber were assembling antennas for the new licensed link on the first floor of Palomar's 200 inch observatory dome.

More photos: http://hpwren.ucsd.edu/Photos/20050208


Image of February 2, 2005:

This Februar 2, 2005 photo shows the new HPWREN-connected GPS site installation at the Ramona airport.

Related story: http://hpwren.ucsd.edu/news/040402.html

More photos: http://hpwren.ucsd.edu/Photos/20050203


Image of January 29, 2005:

This January 28, 2005 photo shows the inside of the astronomer cage on top of the 200 inch Palomar Observatory telescope.

More photos: http://hpwren.ucsd.edu/Photos/20050129


Image of January 22, 2005:

The green desert after the rain is shown in this January 13, 2005 photo from the Mt. Laguna HPWREN backbone site.


Image of January 15, 2005:

This January, 2005 photo of an LBNL astronomy poster shows their distributed application, which utilizes HPWREN for data transfer with the Palomar Observatory.

More info at http://snfactory.lbl.gov

About 47MB PDF file of the LBNL poster

Last year's about 22MB PDF version of the LBNL poster.


Image of January 8, 2005:

During a January 6, 2005 site survey on San Clemente Island, an HPWREN-connected sensor site was reviewed. It includes a meteorological and a seismic sensor.


Image of January 1, 2005:

On December 30, 2004, during weather-related maintenance, the 10Hz ultrasonic anemometer on Mt. Laguna shows significant ice buildup. As did the other co-located sensors.

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