TITLE: 07/10 Eve Shift: 2330-0500 UTC (1630-2200 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 144Mpc
INCOMING OPERATOR: Corey
SHIFT SUMMARY:

IFO is in NLN and OBSERVING as of 03:37 UTC

H1 has been mostly well behaved this shift though the same cannot be said for the wind. Wind gusts reached 42mph and anything over 30mph was difficult to lock in. After the wind calmed down, no initial alignment was needed anmd we got to NLN quite quickly. In such a windcy environment (it's still around 28mph now), we still reached NLN 1.5 hrs after LL.

The 42mph wind gust period did cause a lockloss (Lockloss alog 85662). Instabilities and saturations that followed the gust live were seen and heard pre-LL.

Meanwhile, the SQZ FC2 SUS is complaining that it's too noisy, so the FC has been losing lock once every 5 minutes and then coming back, prompting observing sporadically. I think this is coupled to the wind because when we had a lull that went below 30mph, SQZ stayed locked. Hopefully it stays that way.

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