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Wallops Island, VA New Kent VA

Blackstone, VA

Wallops Is. WI937 – VIPR

(Vertical Incident Pulsed Ionospheric Radar)

37.9369N / 075.4785 W (NESDIS NOAA)

&

WP937 - DISS (Digital Ionospheric

Sounding System) 37.9353N / 075.4717 W (U of MA Lowell Center

for Atmospheric Research)

Wallops Is., VA Ionosondes

WP937 & WI937 as seen in

Fredericksburg, VA

WI937 has more than

one mode

USN New Kent Ionosonde, Wallops Is. WI937 (other mode), and other New Kent Ionosonde as seen in Fredericksburg

USN New Kent OTHR (Over The Horizon Radar)

9980 Rockahock Bar Road New Kent, Virginia 23124 (not normally detectable in Fredericksburg)

WP937 (DISS)

starting near

1 MHz

WP937 (DISS)

skipping over WWV

at 5 MHz

Wallops Is. WI937 (VIPR-Vertical Incident Pulsed Ionospheric Radar)

Image histogram adjusted to see antenna wires.

WAL SuperDARN (Super Dual Auroral Radar Network) Wallops Island, VA (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory) 37.8568 N / 75.5103 W

9-18 MHz 25 kHz BW 18 W avg power per transmitter 16 transmitters 100-300 μs pulses at 120 kHz

Source for above coverage map: http://vt.superdarn.org/tiki-index.php?page=Wallops+Island+Info

Source for above parameters: http://sites.wff.nasa.gov/multimedia/docs/WGO2007.pdf Fig. 5

BKS SuperDARN (Super Dual Auroral Radar Network) Blackstone, VA (Virginia Tech College of Engineering) 37.1022 N / 077.9498 W

Source for above coverage map: http://vt.superdarn.org/tiki-index.php?page=Wallops+Island+Info