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VIPIR Operation●●●Operating the VIPIR radar involves editing textfiles and loading these files into the radar.●●●●●●station.txt – Site specific informationfreq_settings.txt – Frequency settingstiming.txt – Timing settingsfrequency_table.txt – Arbitrary frequency tableddc_setting.txt – Receiver filter settingsduc_settings.txt – Transmitter filter settingsThe continents of these files fill the SCTMapping between these files and SCT values isstraightforward
RIQ Data Format●VIPIR data: Raw In-phase and QuadratureSCTPCT #1Data #1PCT #2Data #2...PCT #NData #N●●●SCT: Sounding Configuration Table●●Instrument settings (output)Instrument control (input)PCT: Pulse Configuration Table●Data Block●●●●Pulse-to-pulse variable settings16 bit valuesIn-phase and Quadrature8 receiversRequested number of rangegates
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High Frequency RadarsandIonospheric
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Earth's Ionosphere●●●●●Pl
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Radio Waves in PlasmasPlane Wave El
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Appleton EquationA magneto-plasma i
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Virtual Height and Density Profiles
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Propagation through a LayerhmEfoE
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What is an Ionosonde and what does
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Courtesy IPSClassic Ionogram
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Digisonde 256 DataIonogram data wit
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Dynasonde21Dynasonde Ionogram Analy
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●●Plasma Physics with Ionosonde
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Analysis Background●●High SNR v
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Circular Polarization
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Polarization Example
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●Radar TimingT 0is the start of a
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●●●Precision RangeUse the hig
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Doppler Shift●●●Doppler shift
Page 36 and 37: Interferometry k 1 2DResearch Oppor
Page 38 and 39: End of Section 1Questions?
Page 40 and 41: Ionosonde History● The first rada
Page 42 and 43: Courtesy Manila Ionosphere Observat
Page 44 and 45: Manual Scaling SheetsA month (Jan 1
Page 46 and 47: NOAA Dynasonde DataCourtesy of Brit
Page 48 and 49: Expert System forIonogram Reduction
Page 50 and 51: Autoscala●●●●●Italian aut
Page 52 and 53: ARTISTDirectogramVelocitiesSkymapIo
Page 54 and 55: VIPIR Radar FeaturesVery high inter
Page 56 and 57: Wallops Island VIPIR hardwarePower
Page 58 and 59: What makes a World Class Ionosonde?
Page 60 and 61: Transmit Antenna Performance
Page 62 and 63: Receive Antennas4m dipoles , 5m hig
Page 64 and 65: Radar Engineering
Page 66 and 67: Fresnel ZoneD, AThe area over which
Page 68 and 69: Atmospheric Noise Factor at HF●No
Page 70 and 71: SignalS= P t G t 1 2 G r16 R 2 L p
Page 72 and 73: SNR Example (1 MHz)●●●Antenna
Page 74 and 75: End of Section 2Questions?
Page 76 and 77: SPGR●●●●●●The virtual h
Page 78 and 79: Ramps, Repeats and Ionograms●●
Page 80 and 81: TimeTimeTimeShuffle ModeInterleave
Page 82 and 83: Shuffle Mode Fixed Frequency
Page 84 and 85: Space Shuttle Modified IonosphereMo
Page 88 and 89: Sounding Configuration Table●●B
Page 90 and 91: SCT Timing! Timing of the measureme
Page 92 and 93: SCT Receiver and Exciter! Receiver
Page 94 and 95: Floating Point Output● Digital Do
Page 96 and 97: Large Signal TestsInternal noise is
Page 98 and 99: Preamp Calibration
Page 100 and 101: San Juan upgrade and calibrationApr
Page 102 and 103: Wallops Rx Cables: After
Page 104 and 105: ●●DC bias in Calibration Circui
Page 106 and 107: Free VIPIR Software●riq-ionogram
Page 108 and 109: Science and Engineering Needs●●
Page 110: Credits●●●●●●●●●
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