January 19, 2009

KST UHF operation memorandum for the January 19, 2009 experiment

6^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 19, 2009

End time: 05:00 UT on January 20, 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 19, 2009

　　　　　 Clear sky, and -12 deg. Aurora is seen in the north.

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

16:58　 Tx up

17:01 rtg

17:01　 enablerec

　　　　　 at EROS5 console (UHF)

17:02　 1.0 MW

17:10　 1.3 MW (this is the best they can do)

18:26　 Tx down

18:28　 recovered

　　　　　 1.37 MW

19:03　 Tx down

　　　　　 a bit serious?

　　　　　 Serious ?

20:37　　 recovered

　　　　　 1.3 MW

23:15　 network down (for a few minutes?)

23:17　 Tx down

23:20　 recovered.

2159　 Tx down

2202　 recovered

January 20, 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

　　　　　 　

Summary

The activity of the ionosphere was high between 1700-0230 UT.

cp2 antenna pattern

FA (185.8, 77.4)

E (166.5, 59.4)

EM (133.3, 56.8)

V (180.0, 90.0)