January 18, 2009

KST UHF operation memorandum for the January 18, 2009 experiment

5^th 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 18, 2009

End time: 05:00 UT on January 19, 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 18, 2009

　　　　　 Partly clear sky, and -12 deg.

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

16:49 rtg

　　　　　 re-start the experiment

17:01　 Tx up

17:01　 enablerec

　　　　　 at EROS5 console (UHF)

1745　 Tx down

1747　 recovered

1814　 Tx down

1815　 recovered

2159　 Tx down

2202　 recovered

January 19, 2009

0118　 Tx down

0120　 recovered

　　　　　 1.3 MW

　　　　 Aurora activity was higher.

　　　　　 Clear sky and -7 deg.

0235　 Tx down

0237　 recovered

0500　 stopexp

　　　　　 partly clear sky -11 deg C.

Summary

The activity of the ionosphere was high between 0130-0300 UT.

cp2 antenna pattern

FA (185.8, 77.4)

E (166.5, 59.4)

EM (133.3, 56.8)

V (180.0, 90.0)