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Ionosonde in Olsztyn Scientificand Technology Park
Technical parameters and equipment
Technical specifications of the ionosonde:
Transmitter pulse power
Pulse duration
Minimum interval between pulses
Sounding frequency
Frequency step
Pulse modulation
Number of receiving channels
Sampling frequency
Received bandwidth
Minimum signal reflection height
Maximum signal reflection height
Spatial resolution
Time synchronization accuracy
500W
600us
7ms
1-20MHz
25kHz (programmable)
Binary phase using Barker 7 code
2 independent channels connected to crossed antennas
100MHz
200kHz (up to 10 MHz with 2 channels)
80km
1200km
5km
1us
Equipment:
- VISRC2C ionosonde with software for manual ionogram generation, developed by the Space Research Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences (CBK PAN) in Warsaw
- Advanced AUTOSCALA software for automatic ionogram generation, developed by the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) in Rome, Italy
Ionogram from Olsztyn station originated from Autoscala software.
