IITC Newsletter Vol 1 No 4 : 28 November 2001
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All...

Welcome to the IITC's fourth newsletter:

1.  IMPORTANT - Change to OSCAR 31 on 29 Nov.
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From Gary Bust of ARL:

Oscar 31 will change to the operational frequency on Nov. 29, 1930 UT.

Original message follows:

"Merrill, Ethan" wrote:
> 
> To ALCON,
>                   On 29 NOV 2001, at 1930 Zulu, NAVSOC is planning on
> switching the downlink frequency offsett to Operational on OSCAR 31.
> 
> Thanks,
>             Ethan
> 
> >  -----Original Message-----
> > From:         Merrill, Ethan
> > Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 7:44 PM
> > To:   Tom Gaussiran II (E-mail); Scott White (E-mail); Keith Groves
> > (E-mail); Paul Bernhardt (E-mail)
> > Cc:   Crawford, Mike; Nassif, Tobias; Flynn, John LCDR
> > Subject:      NIMS OSCAR satellite downlink frequency change proposal
> >
> > To All,
> >           Due to the fact that some users can not track an OSCAR
> > satellite's downlink when it is on the Maintenance offsett, NAVSOC
> > proposes to change the downlink frequency on OSCAR 31 to the Operational
> > offset on 29 NOV 01. This action should increase the total number of
> > usable passes to such users.
> >       Satellites 25 and 31 will not conflict with each other until mid to
> > late AUG of 2002, after that time - OSCAR 31 will have to go back to the
> > Maintenance offsett.
> > If anyone has any concerns, please contact me at (805) 989-8780 before 29
> > NOV 01.


2.  List Server.
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Just a reminder that we have established an e-mail listserver for this 
group.  The first item in this newsletter, which is of interest to most 
of you, was sent out on this list by Gary Bust in order to reach this 
community in a timely fashion.  Since so few have signed up for the 
list I am including his note in this newsletter.  I would urge each 
group to have at least one member sign up for this list.  Please see 
newsletter #3 (sent in early September) for instructions on how to sign 
up.

3.  Data Collection dates.
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    Campaign #1:  19-20 September 2001  (any reports from anyone?)
    Campaign #2:  12-13 December 2001

4.  Workshop.
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We continue to look into the possibility of having tomography workshops 
this coming Spring at either the Ionospheric Effects Symposium in 
Washington, DC, or the URSI Commission G International Symposium on the 
High Latitude Ionosphere in Fairbanks, Alaska.  Gary Bust is working 
with NRL to see if they can help host the workshop at the IES meeting.  
More on this as soon as we hear.

In order to help us sort this out, could you please give us your "vote" 
for which of these two meetings you or your colleagues are more likely 
to attend.  Send me (jim@nwra-az.com) your best estimate of whether you 
will attend:
(1) the IES in DC on 7-9 May (Tue-Thu), or 
(2) the URSI Symposium in Fairbanks on 15-17 May (Wed-Fri).

Jim