October 15, 2004
KST
UHF operation memorandam for October 15 BY S. Nozawa
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Experiment name: arc1
(normal arc1 with the field-aligned-position:(184.0,77.1, 292.9)
We will make an optical campaign using NIPR
cameras and 4-wavelength photometer with EISCAT UHF radar. NI(16)
elan files: arc1.elan
directory:
/kst/exp/arc1/arc1
Pulse scheme: arc1
Start time: 19:00 UT on
October 15, 2004
End time: 23:00 UT on
October 15, 2004
Participants: Satonori
Nozawa, Takuo Tsuda and Keigo Okada
(Dr Hiroshi Miyaoka is operating his
instruments at PRE)
Before our experiment:
Nothing
After our
experiment: Nothing
VHF is running (tau8)
until 23:00
Heating is off
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Note:
(time in UT)
October 15
It was a very nice day. A lot of
sunshine at daytime. It was rather warm, 5 deg!
At 18:30, it was clear sky and the ionosphere was relatively active. We can see
the aurora in the north. Great!
19:00 START
runexp
/kst/exp/arc1/arc1 19:00 cp1 NI
enablerec
kir runexp
/kst/exp/arc1/arc1 19:00 cp1 NI
sod runexp
/kst/exp/arc1/arc1 19:00 cp1 NI
19:00-19:13 Tx got a problem.
19:12 enablerec
19:14
1820 kW
19:18
guisdap –a (start
analysis)
19:34
2023 kW
19:44
Tx power down
19:47
1820
20:03
Tx power down
20:05
1742 kW
20:16
Tx power down
Beautiful aurora showed up
20:41
Tx power down
20:45
1600 kW (Tx power lowern)
21:00
Tsys=133 K
23:01 stopexperiment
kir stopexp
sod stopexp
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Summary:
Moderate Tx power (about 1300-1500 kW ??).
Tx was unstable. Good weather.
Geomagnetical activity was relatively high.
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