Last updated on December 8, 2016

Tromsø UHF operation memorandum for experiments 

Experiment name: SP_AURORA
PI: Takeshi Sakanoi (Tohoku Univ.) and Yasunobu Ogawa (NIPR)
Resources: NI(27)

Pulse scheme: beata 
elan files: t45001:/kst/exp/beata/beata
scan pattern file (for UHF beata): /kst/exp/scans/kst/cp1_pattern.elan

Participants: Yasunobu Ogawa and Yu Endo (till December 4, 2016)
              Satonori Nozawa (December 5, 2016)

Before our experiment: METEOR_UHF (PI: J. Kero (IRF))
After our experiment: METEOR_UHF (PI: J. Kero (IRF))

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December 2, 2016 (Friday)
(UHF)
17:30 UT runexp /kst/exp/manda/manda fm sw/maarsy SW 100
18:00 UT enablerec
19:59 UT stopexp

20:00 UT runexp /kst/exp/manda/manda 20:00 sw/maarsy SW 100
20:00 UT enablerec
20:34 UT stopexp

20:35 UT runexp /kst/exp/beata/beata fm cp1 NI
20:35 UT enablerec
20:59 UT stopexp (due to a wrong antenna position)
20:59 UT runexp /kst/exp/beata/beata fm cp1 NI
21:00 UT enablerec
21:14 UT stopexp

21:15 UT runexp /kst/exp/manda/manda 20:00 sw/maarsy SW 100
21:15 UT enablerec
22:24 UT culebra (PC for UHF operation) crushed and restarted

22:30 UT runexp /kst/exp/beata/beata fm cp1 NI
22:30 UT enablerec
23:21 UT UHF Crowber. Tx recovered at 23:22 UT.
23:57 UT stopexp

00:00 UT runexp /kst/exp/manda/manda 20:00 sw/maarsy SW 100
00:00 UT enablerec
05:00 UT stopexp

Note: It was sometimes a clear sky and aurora was seen 
at 20:10-21:10 and 22:30-24:00 UT on December 2, 2016.

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December 3, 2016 (Saturday)
canceled

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December 4, 2016 (Sunday)
canceled

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December 5, 2016 (Monday)
(UHF)
22:45 stopexp
22:46 run /kst/exp/beata/beata fm cp1 NI (@eros u)
22:47 enablerec
00:20 Tx: 1543 kW
getting cloudy, about -7 deg.
01:26 stopexp

Summary
Clear sky until about 01 UT.
The activity of the ionosphere was relatively low.
Tx was very stable (about 1.5 MW)
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