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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