Design and manufacture of atmospheric radar systems

ATRAD has leased a Boundary Layer Tropospheric Radar (BLTR) Wind Profiler in Auckland to support Americas Cup race forecasters to provide vital wind information to the yacht racing teams during the Americas Cup racing program.

The radar is sited on an island in the Auckland bay where the race will take place.

ATRAD has recently completed the installation of the Meteor Radar for the Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics of The Chinese Academy of Sciences in China.

The customer's site is in a difficult location, with significant RF interference and physical obstruction of antennas. The performance of the Meteor Radar under these conditions will be monitored by ATRAD over the next few months via a telephone dial up modem.

The University of Chicago operates the Argonne National Laboratory and has recently placed an order for the supply of a VTX20 Radar Transmitter.

The VTX20 is an extremely cost-effective 20kW tube radar transmitter and is suitable for use in most atmospheric radar applications. Similar transmitters are in service with the Adelaide University for use at their Buckland Park research facility and with the University of Colorado atmospheric research unit at their South Pole facility.

ATRAD has won a contract to supply Vaisala Meteorological Systems Inc. with a VHF Transmitter and Antenna Array plus other components as part of a Tropospheric Wind Profiler System for the UK Met Office.

The transmitter design uses the same 100kW-tube transmitter technology already in use by the Communication Research Laboratory in Wakkanai Japan, the Institute of Atmospheric Physics at Kuehlungsborn University of Rostock in Germany, and soon to be installed at the Woomera rocket range for the Japanese National Aeronautics Laboratory.

ATRAD has secured a contract for a Medium Frequency (MF) radar for The Institute for Atmospheric Physics at Kuehlungsborn in Germany. The project is in two phases with the first phase to be installed in November 2001.

The installation is at the Andoya rocket range at Andenes in Norway.

The second phase is due for installation in May 2002, to be fully operational for a rocket launch campaign for `sounding rockets' for the European Space Agency starting in the following month (June 2002).

Atmospheric Radar Systems (ATRAD) has won two important contracts for the supply of a "Meteor Radar" and an "Ionospheric Radar" to the Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics of The Chinese Academy of Sciences. This follows the company's earlier success in winning a contract in April 2001 from the Space Physics Department of the Electronics and Information Institute Wuhan University for the supply of a major VHF MST Radar system.

ATRAD has secured a major contract from Wuhan University in China to design, manufacture and install a Mesospheric Stratospheric Tropospheric (MST) radar in Wuhan, China.

The design will be unique and will employ a distributed transmitter system rather than the conventional single rack transmitter.

ATRAD has been commissioned by the National Aeronautical Laboratories (NAL) of Japan to manufacture and install a Stratospheric Tropospheric (ST) radar at the Woomera rocket range in the North of South Australia.

NAL are running a multimillion dollar project at Woomera to conduct supersonic flight trials of an experimental scaled unmanned vehicle as the forerunner to future supersonic passenger air travel.

The ATRAD radar will provide continuous wind profile data to the control centre where the launch vehicle firing and control decisions will be made.

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