Buckland Park, Australia

Radar site location: 35S, 138E

Radars present:

MF radar
VHF ST class Doppler and meteor radar

MF radar

Specifications

Customer:	Adelaide University
Mode:	Spaced antenna
Frequency:	1.98 MHz
Peak Power (kW):	100
Typical Power (W):	240
Installation date:	January 1995
ATRAD supplied:	all components except antennas
Website:	MF radar site

References

Reid, I.M., B.G.W. Vandepeer, S. Dillon and B. Fuller, The new Adelaide medium frequency Doppler radar, Radio Sci., 30(4), 1177-1198, 1995

Holdsworth, D.A., and I.M. Reid, The spatial correlation analysis revisited, Adv. Space Res., 20(6), 1281-1284, 1997

Tsutsumi, M., D. A. Holdsworth, T. Nakamura, I. M. Reid, Meteor observations with an MF radar, Earth, Planets and Space, 51, 691-699, 1999

VHF ST class Doppler and meteor radar

Specifications

Customer:	Adelaide University
Mode:	ST class Doppler and meteor
Frequency:	55.0 MHz
Peak Power (kW):	40
Installation date:	Upgraded April 2008
ATRAD supplied:	all components
Results:	Adelaide university results page

References

D. A. Holdsworth and I. M. Reid,
The Buckland Park meteor radar - description and initial result,
Accepted for publication in the Workshop on Applications of Radio Science proceedings, 2002
See initial preprint (355kB download, ZIP'ed PDF file)

D. A. Holdsworth and I. M. Reid,
Experiment and analysis techniques used for the Buckland Park all-sky interferometric meteor radar,
Tenth Workshop on Scientific and Technical aspects of MST Radar, May 2003, Piura, Peru.
A 2.2MB PDF copy of this presentation is available.