93747,I49592,1985,04,01,93747,I49592,44,31,35,S,169,53,24,E,New Zealand Meteorological Service,TARA HILLS EDR,488,Station opened. Manual observations at I49591 to continue in parallel to the end of 1985.
93747,I49592,1986,06,12,93747,I49592,44,31,35,S,169,53,24,E,New Zealand Meteorological Service,TARA HILLS EDR,488,Annual maintenance and calibration visit. New earth probe installed.
93747,I49592,1986,07,09,93747,I49592,44,31,35,S,169,53,24,E,New Zealand Meteorological Service,TARA HILLS EDR,488,Visit to uplift manual instruments. EDR site checked. Inner can of 5 inch gauge leaking - replaced. Inside the hut the wet bulb water supply was frozen solid - a situation that could last for 3 months each year.
93747,I49592,1986,08,18,93747,I49592,44,31,35,S,169,53,24,E,New Zealand Meteorological Service,TARA HILLS EDR,488,Photo taken.
93747,I49592,1987,01,15,93747,I49592,44,31,35,S,169,53,24,E,New Zealand Meteorological Service,TARA HILLS EDR,488,Muslin and wicks and maximum thermometer supplied.
93747,I49592,1987,02,02,93747,I49592,44,31,35,S,169,53,24,E,New Zealand Meteorological Service,TARA HILLS EDR,488,Letter from observer agreeing to take part in BRANZ atmospheric corrosion survey.
93747,I49592,1987,03,11,93747,I49592,44,31,35,S,169,53,24,E,New Zealand Meteorological Service,TARA HILLS EDR,488,Annual maintenance and calibration visit. Dry and wet bulb probes routinely replaced.
93747,I49592,1987,03,16,93747,I49592,44,31,35,S,169,53,24,E,New Zealand Meteorological Service,TARA HILLS EDR,488,Muslin wicks and maximum thermometer supplied.
93747,I49592,1988,04,06,93747,I49592,44,31,35,S,169,53,24,E,New Zealand Meteorological Service,TARA HILLS EDR,488,Visit to install RS232 interface system.
93747,I49592,1988,07,19,93747,I49592,44,31,35,S,169,53,24,E,New Zealand Meteorological Service,TARA HILLS EDR,488,Annual maintenance and calibration visit. Raingauge routinely replaced.
93747,I49592,1989,10,02,93747,I49592,44,31,35,S,169,53,24,E,New Zealand Meteorological Service,TARA HILLS EDR,488,Annual maintenance and calibration visit. Wind speed; solar radiation routinely replaced.  100cm earth temp suspect but unable to be replaced at time of visit.
93747,I49592,1991,10,17,93747,I49592,44,31,35,S,169,53,24,E,New Zealand Meteorological Service,TARA HILLS EDR,488,Annual maintenance and calibration visit. Raingauge; solar radiation; dry; wet and grass min probes all routinely replaced.
93747,I49592,1993,01,11,93747,I49592,44,31,35,S,169,53,24,E,New Zealand Meteorological Service,TARA HILLS EDR,488,Annual maintenance and calibration visit. A new irrigation channel has been dug alongside enclosure - expected volume is 0.5m3/sec.
93747,I49592,1994,12,13,93747,I49592,44,31,35,S,169,53,24,E,New Zealand Meteorological Service,TARA HILLS EDR,488,Annual maintenance and calibration visit. Raingauge; dry and wet bulb and grass min probes all routinely replaced.
93747,I49592,1995,05,19,93747,I49592,44,31,35,S,169,53,24,E,New Zealand Meteorological Service,TARA HILLS EDR,488,Wind direction u/s - replaced 7 June 1995.
93747,I49592,1995,10,09,93747,I49592,44,31,35,S,169,53,24,E,New Zealand Meteorological Service,TARA HILLS EDR,488,Annual maintenance and calibration visit. Earth probe replaced due 100cm failure. Screen painted.
93747,I49592,1996,05,24,93747,I49592,44,31,35,S,169,53,24,E,New Zealand Meteorological Service,TARA HILLS EDR,488,Annual maintenance and calibration visit. Solar radiation routinely replaced.
93747,I49592,1997,04,11,93747,I49592,44,31,35,S,169,53,24,E,New Zealand Meteorological Service,TARA HILLS EDR,488,Annual maintenance and calibration visit. Raingauge routinely replaced.
93747,I49592,1998,03,15,93747,I49592,44,31,35,S,169,53,24,E,New Zealand Meteorological Service,TARA HILLS EDR,488,EDR damaged by thunderstorm.
93747,I49592,1998,04,27,93747,I49592,44,31,35,S,169,53,24,E,New Zealand Meteorological Service,TARA HILLS EDR,488,Annual maintenance and calibration visit as well as repair job.  Raingauge; air temp and solar radiation routinely replaced. Humidity probe installed wet bulb probe removed. Replace faulty earth temperature set.
93747,I49592,1999,03,19,93747,I49592,44,31,35,S,169,53,24,E,New Zealand Meteorological Service,TARA HILLS EDR,488,Annual maintenance and calibration visit. Grass temp and humidity routinely replaced.
93747,I49592,2000,03,19,93747,I49592,44,31,35,S,169,53,24,E,New Zealand Meteorological Service,TARA HILLS EDR,488,Annual maintenance and calibration visit. Replaced Porton; PX4 nicads; Ota; Licor and Ysi.
93747,I49592,2001,03,30,93747,I49592,44,31,35,S,169,53,24,E,New Zealand Meteorological Service,TARA HILLS EDR,488,Annual maintenance and calibration visit. Humidity; earth temps routinely exchanged.
93747,I49592,2002,04,09,93747,I49592,44,31,35,S,169,53,24,E,New Zealand Meteorological Service,TARA HILLS EDR,488,Annual maintenance and calibration visit. Solar rad; humidity routinely replaced.
93747,I49592,2002,12,16,93747,I49592,44,31,35,S,169,53,24,E,New Zealand Meteorological Service,TARA HILLS EDR,488,Reprogd px4.
93747,I49592,2003,05,31,93747,I49592,44,31,35,S,169,53,24,E,New Zealand Meteorological Service,TARA HILLS EDR,488,Annual service. Replaced OTA; porton; ysi; rot and PX4 nicads. Changed clock & control cards to fix a timing problem.
93747,I49592,2003,06,03,93747,I49592,44,31,35,S,169,53,24,E,New Zealand Meteorological Service,TARA HILLS EDR,488,Changed VDU card & PS to try to fix intermittent timing fault.
93747,I49592,2004,03,27,93747,I49592,44,31,35,S,169,53,24,E,New Zealand Meteorological Service,TARA HILLS EDR,488,Lightning strike. No data 27 to 30 March.
93747,I49592,2004,04,27,93747,I49592,44,31,35,S,169,53,24,E,New Zealand Meteorological Service,TARA HILLS EDR,488,Annual maintenance and calibration visit. Replaced all earth temp probes with new probe type. Routinely replaced humidity and solar radiation. Upgrade logger type to iStar.
93747,I49592,2004,05,18,93747,I49592,44,31,35,S,169,53,24,E,New Zealand Meteorological Service,TARA HILLS EDR,488,Upgrade to iStar.
93747,I49592,2004,08,31,93747,I49592,44,31,35,S,169,53,24,E,New Zealand Meteorological Service,TARA HILLS EDR,488,Solar fault. Replaced CIC card; Licor and modified backplane.
93747,I49592,2004,12,09,93747,I49592,44,31,35,S,169,53,24,E,New Zealand Meteorological Service,TARA HILLS EDR,488,Replaced 50cm earth probe & temp terminal box.
93747,I49592,2004,12,20,93747,I49592,44,31,35,S,169,53,24,E,New Zealand Meteorological Service,TARA HILLS EDR,488,Replaced SOD card to fix comms problems.
93747,I49592,2005,02,15,93747,I49592,44,31,35,S,169,53,24,E,New Zealand Meteorological Service,TARA HILLS EDR,488,Replaced Porton & Rimco to fix speed & direction problem.
93747,I49592,2005,03,22,93747,I49592,44,31,35,S,169,53,24,E,New Zealand Meteorological Service,TARA HILLS EDR,488,Replaced faulty 10cm probe. Removed battery from laptop to allow auto boot. Probe faulty since 24-02-0900Z.
93747,I49592,2005,05,25,93747,I49592,44,31,35,S,169,53,24,E,New Zealand Meteorological Service,TARA HILLS EDR,488,Annual calibration. Replaced ROT and Licor base plate. Upgraded MetMessage toV2.4.0. Replace conduit on grass probes. Glued perspex cover linked pins 4 & 5 on DB25 on SOD to laptop.
93747,I49592,2006,02,08,93747,I49592,44,31,35,S,169,53,24,E,New Zealand Meteorological Service,TARA HILLS AWS,488,Upgraded from EDR station to Sutron AWS.
93747,I49592,2006,03,23,93747,I49592,44,31,35,S,169,53,24,E,New Zealand Meteorological Service,TARA HILLS AWS,488,Reinstalled 50cm earth temp.
93747,I49592,2006,05,16,93747,I49592,44,31,35,S,169,53,24,E,New Zealand Meteorological Service,TARA HILLS AWS,488,Annual maintenance and calibration visit. Air temp; humidity; solar radiation and raingauage all routinely replaced.