January 17, 2009
KST UHF operation memorandum for the January 17, 2009 experiment
4th 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
17, 2009
End time: 23:00 UT on January
17, 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 17, 2009
@@@@@ Clear sky, and 0 deg.
16:43@ runexp /kst/exp/ beata/beata 16:48 cp2 NI
16:49 rtg
16:58@ Tx up
17:00@ enablerec
@@@@@ at EROS5 console
(UHF)
@@@@@ Tx power is about 1.2-1.3 MW due to a polarizer problem.
1716@ Tx down
1717@ recovered
1720@ Tx down
1721@ recovered
1724@ Tx down
1725@ recovered
1734@ Tx down
1735@ recovered
@@@@@ Tx power is set t be about 1.1 MW.
2300@ stopexp
@@@@@ partly clear sky -5
deg C.
Summary
The activity of the ionosphere was a bit high. We saw aurora, but the stronger one was in the north of Tromsoe and did not come over us.
cp2 antenna pattern
FA (185.8, 77.4)
E (166.5, 59.4)
EM (133.3, 56.8)
V (180.0, 90.0)