IITC Newsletter Vol 2 No 1 : 04 January 2002 ============================================ Welcome to the IITC's fifth newsletter, and Happy New Year to all of you. 1. IITC Web Site ----------------- The IITC web site is up at . So far I have links to other groups from only two groups (NWRA and the Aberystwyth group). I am soliciting links to web pages for other tomography groups, and in particular links to pages showing tomography results from the recent Tomography World Day (which are now known as Ionospheric Tomography Coordinated Observation Days) campaigns. 2. Next Ionospheric Tomography Coordinated Observation Days ------------------------------------------------------------ The optical emissions community is planning a series of data-collection campaigns during February at the HAARP auroral-zone heater site in south-eastern Alaska, which provides a good opportunity for another set of days during which the IITC can collect data for collaborative studies. The dates we've set are the 12th and 13th of February 2002, which are both Dark Moon Days and the 12th is a Regular World Day and the 13th a Priority Regular World Day. Everyone please try to maximize data collection on these dates. 3. Tomography Workshop ----------------------- Since what few votes we received were to have a workshop in conjunction with the Ionospheric Effects Symposium (IES) that is our target for the IITC data workshop. This meeting is held in Alexandria, Virginia, from 7 through 9 May 2002 (you can find more information on IES at ). The workshop convener (Dr. John Goodman) has offered a room for our workshop. Could everyone who is planning to attend this meeting, or just the workshop, please let either me or Ed Fremouw (ed@nwra.com) know your preferred date for the one-day workshop during the 7-9 May period? 4. Oscar 31 Status ------------------- In our last newsletter we passed along information about planned changes to the Oscar 31 satellite. As of this time that satellite is broadcasting on the operational frequency but apparently at a much lower power level than previously (as much as 10dB lower). There is a request in to the group that oversees these satellites to look into this, and we will pass along any information we receiver from them as we get it.