January 14, 2009

KST UHF operation memorandum for the January 14, 2009 experiment

1^st day of DELTA-2 campaign

Experiment name: DELTA2: beata (CP2)

　　　　　　 pointrheight 185.8 77.4 299.6　

elan files:puny :/kst/exp/beata/beata.elan

Pulse scheme: beata

Start time: 17:00 UT on January 14, 2009

End time: 21:00 UT on January 14, 2009

Participants: Satonori Nozawa, Yasunobu Ogawa and Shin Oyama.

Before our experiment: Nothing

After our experiment: Nothing

Other instruments.

STEL photometer, STEL digital camera (1-min interval), STEL proton imager (1-min interval), STE FPI, STEL imager (5577, 6300, etc.) NIPR all-sky camera, NIPR ATV (all-sky TV imager), NIPR WTV (wide-view TV imager).

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Note: (time in UT)

January 14, 2009

　　　　　 Snowing, and -5 deg.

16:43　 runexp /kst/exp/ beata/beata 16:48 cp2 NI

16:49 rtg

16:54　 Tx up

16:59　 enablerec

　　　　　 at EROS5 console (UHF)

17:02 Analysis start

　　　　　 cd /home/eiscat/delta2

　　　　　 guisdap –a

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 [Disp figure　 00011]

1717　 Tx down

1719　 recovered

1723　 Tx down

1725　 recovered

1748　 Decision (of cancelation of today’s launch) was made.

21:00　 stopexp

　　　　　 snowing, -5 deg C.

Summary

The activity of the ionosphere was relatively low. However, after the experiment (22UT), the aurora showed up on the patchy cloudy sky…

cp2 antenna pattern

FA (185.8, 77.4)

E (166.5, 59.4)

EM (133.3, 56.8)

V (180.0, 90.0)