January 15, 2009

KST UHF operation memorandum for the January 15, 2009 experiment

2^nd day 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 15, 2009

End time: 21:00 UT on January 15, 2009

Participants: Satonori Nozawa, Yasunobu Ogawa, and Shi-ichiro 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 15, 2009

　　　　　 Snowing, and -5 deg.

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

16:49 rtg

16:57　 Tx up

16:59　 enablerec

　　　　　 at EROS5 console (UHF)

17:02　 tana is down… We cannot start analysis…

　　　　　 cd /home/eiscat/delta2

　　　　　 guisdap –a

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 [Disp figure　 00011]

　　　　　 Tx power is about 1.2-1.3 MW due to a polarizer problem.

1721　 Tx down

1723　 recovered

1726　 reboot　 tb1000

1723　 Tx down

1725　 recovered

1830　 “tana” is recovered, and then we can do analysis.

2000　 Decision (of cancelation of today’s launch) was made.

2100　 stopexp

　　　　　 partly clear sky -5 deg C.

Summary

The activity of the ionosphere was relatively high. Aurora showed up!

cp2 antenna pattern

FA (185.8, 77.4)

E (166.5, 59.4)

EM (133.3, 56.8)

V (180.0, 90.0)