March 1, 2003
KST
UHF operation memorandam for March 1 BY S. Nozawa
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Experiment name: arc1
(normal arc1 with the field-aligned-position:(184.0,77.1, 292.9)
We will make an optical
campaign using high resolution aurora cameras and 4-wavelength photometer with
EISCAT UHF radar. We strongly hope to use the ARC mode (at field-aligned
position) with the UHF radar. Sweden will contribute 8hrs to this campaign.
Also Norway will contribute 16hrs. NI(18), SW(8), NO(16)
elan files:
arc1-u.elan, arc1-k.elan, arc-s.élan (just use arc1 series)
directory:
/kst/exp/arc1-u (arc-k, arc1-s )
Pulse scheme: arc1
Start time: 19:00 UT on
March 1, 2003
End time: 01:00 UT on
March 2, 2003
Participants: Satonori
Nozawa, Shuei Tomida, Hiroshi Miyaoka, and Maarten Blixt
Before our experiment:
Nothing
After our experiment:
ALTA (see below)
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Note:
(time in UT)
March
1
Cloudy.... Some activities are going, on
though...
19:00 START (enablerec;
kir enablerec; sod eneablerec)
1308 kW
19:02
The Kiruna anntena is offline.
19:37
Now kiruna works well. We can see signals
at Kiruna.
No signals at Sodankyla.
20:34 1432 kW
21:00 stop experinent
tau2at_cp1 started (at all the sites) to do test for
Sodankylaa.
The Sondakylaa problem was not solved.
21:26 stop experiment
21:28 arc1-u started
21:30 no signals from kiruna and sodankyla
21:58 stop experiment
22:00 arc1-u started (runexp arc1-u.elan 22:00)
enablerec
22:02 We can see signals at Kiruna.
enablerec at Kiruna
22:09 We see signals at Sondakyla!!
enablerec at Sodankyla
22:52 1312 kW
23:26 Heating on!!! About 4 MHz.
Since it is cloudy, then I give my
approval.
00:41 correlator error
Interrup error
could not analuze data, rtg could not
handle the data neither.
Need to restart the experiment, but I have
only 10 minutes. So I decided to quit the
experiment.
00:50 stopexperinet
d
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Summary:
Moderate
Tx power (about 1300 kW).
Tx
is very stable (amazing).
Cloudy
for all the time (bad..)
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ALTA UK(40), GE(40),
SW(20) Mike Kosch
This is the UHF part of
the artificial aurora and Langmuir turbulence experiment. The mode will
probably be similar to previous artificial aurora campaigns, namely tau2 on the
UHF with a dedicated Langmuir turbulence experiment (developed by Brett Isham)
on the VHF and simultaneous heating.
This experiment needs
good optical conditions, but low geomagnetic activity.
It can therefore be treated as an
alternative to the CP1-ARC experiment on days when both are scheduled, as
conditions for these are mutually exclusive. Because of the requirements on
optical conditions, there will almost inevitably be some degree of
cancellation.