• Ionosonde in Olsztyn Scientificand Technology Park

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.