Meeting with NDBC guys

1. Landry Bernard
2. Rodney Riley
3. Mike
4. Rich
5. Paul
6. Craig
7. Kevin

1. Introductions
2. Open discussion
3. SAIC is the prime contractor and they re-compete every 5 years (end of December)
4. emphasize drawings and documentation. people come and go.
5. proposed layout went over.
6. ok with deck on rfp
7. mounting of sensors on the tower.
8. horizontal battery position.
9. ADCP head we are awaiting that, 1 week or two.
10. Might have to replace bottom well. ADCP mount will change
11. They will get that resolved.
12. They will let us know how many holes they will use.
13. Who will install the ADCP. Just the head of the 75.
14. The ADCP will determine the rest of the mounts.
15. MOA (like MOU) still outstanding. Doug can help with this.
16. End of March for installation of ADCP.
17. Craig went through drawings
18. we will provide drawings to NDBC.
19. They will double check about battery box orientation
20. Right now it is a non-directional buoy, but that might change with a magnetometer.
21. Other questions.
22. Flourometer: thought about putting on battery box mount.
23. NDBC will send inventor files to Craig.
24. Brett will contact Craig and get drawing exchange going.
25. Check heading changes with can. Put can in and out and see if the compass heading changes. Do that when we test ADCP test.
26. When assembled run end-to-end tests. Spin the mooring for compass check.
27. Does Francisco want the configuration of the ADCP?
28. Get Dick and Mike together about ADCP configuration and power.
29. can't adjust over telemetry (there is sometimes a wireless box, not sure if this one has it). They will check to see if that option is available. Might be a configuration change.
30. Schedule.
31. They will get us a number for the DAC so that we can tell them when we are bringing it up.
32. they will show us how to get it going when they come out with ADCP. Make us able to power it up. Also show us how to look at the data.
33. ADCP is critical path.