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Image of the Week directory from previous years: 2004 
Image of December 31, 2005:
Initial more than five year old HPWREN topology
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 
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 
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.... 
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. 
Image of August 6, 2005:Bud Hale and Pablo Bryant are preparing an SDSU tower for antenna replacements. 
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! 
Image of July 9, 2005:California Wolf Center puppies ready to pounce on each other. 
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. 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. 
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:
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:
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:
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:
More information:
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:
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. |
