BasyouhuC9905 ver.1.01 SD Japanese Special/Discretinary Time RCP in May, June, & July, 1999

1. Installation

2. Schedule file

Add the following entries to your schedule file for May, June & July, 1999 manually!
(We strongly recommend you use this file to create your schedule file!!!
 to avoid any unexpected mistyping!!!)

(The same documentation as this is included in the installation package.
 Its file name is "00Readme" found in the source directory where you install.
 You can use it to create your schedule file
 (and you can also aviod any unexpected mistyping!!!).

	.............
# May 13-15 Discretionary Time
1999  5 13  0  0  /radops/usr/bin/BasyouhuC9905D -df xxx -nf yyy
# May 16-18 Special Time
1999  5 16  0  0  /radops/usr/bin/BasyouhuC9905 -df xxx -nf yyy
	.............
# June 10-12 Discretionary Time
1999  6 10  0  0  /radops/usr/bin/BasyouhuC9905D -df xxx -nf yyy
	.............
# June 14-16 Special Time
1999  6 14  0  0  /radops/usr/bin/BasyouhuC9905 -df xxx -nf yyy
	.............
# July  5- 7 Special Time
1999  7  5  0  0  /radops/usr/bin/BasyouhuC9905 -df xxx -nf yyy
	.............
# July 12-14 Discretionary Time
1999  7 12  0  0  /radops/usr/bin/BasyouhuC9905D -df xxx -nf yyy
	.............


  where... xxx :    day-time start_freq/band (in kHz)
           yyy :  night-time start_freq/band (in kHz)
  Please specify these 2 best frequencies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  to get as much ionospheric echo as possible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  (Please avoid your restrict freq bands, of cource...)

  (Default intt is 3 seconds.
   If intt=4sec is much much better than intt=3sec to get much echoes,
   please don't hesitate to change it by -it option...)

If you need more info, you can see the online usage of this RCP by doing
	use BasyouhuC9905
or read the source code or ask me...

3. Test running, please...

	After reading the explanation of the sounding mode below,
	please run this RCP before the May, June & July DT and ST if possible
	although only few DT days left before them.
	Please test this RCP with the 2 options, -df and -nf
	at your radar site.
	(It's good enough for this RCP to run just for 10 to 15 min or so.)
	And please report any problem to me ASAP if any.
	Please make sure again that you specify '-df' and '-nf'
	options for your test run as describled above.
	You can see display task's display or 'errlog' file to check
		if intt is correct or not, and
		if beam sequence and freqency setting are correct or not.
	This RCP will output time/bmnum/start_freq/scan for each beam 
	in errlog file.
	Many thanks for your great efforts to check and run this RCP!!

4. Sounding mode

	This BasyouhuC9905 is a modified version of Basyouhu scan
	which ran for our Special Time in Fab.,1998 and Jan. to Mar., 1999.
	(If any of you cannot perform intt=3 on your radar, let me know soon.)
	For most radars for most days, various Basyouhu scans will be made
	to get 1 or 2 high time resolution special camping beam(s) data with
	optimized high time resolution global convection data simultaneously.
	intt=3sec,frang=180km,mpinc=2400,rsep=45km as usual,
	but no GPS synchronization.
	(If intt=4sec is much much better than intt=3sec to get much echoes,
	 please don't hesitate to change it by -it option...)
	CP=5243
	Detailed beam sequences for all the radars will be shown below...

5. Beam sequence

	Each beam sequence for each radar is almost completely different
	from ones for the other modes/radars.
	I try to summarize all the sequences here...

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sas    : forward scan  : rsep=45, intt=3 spec= 7    w/ global scan(sb=1 eb=15)
    1, 7,5,7,9,  7,13, 7,3,7,11, 7,15, 7,2, 7,6, 7,10, 7,14, 7,4, 7,8, 7,12, 7
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Kap    : backward scan : rsep=45, intt=3 spec= 5    w/ global scan(sb=14 eb=0)
    14, 5,10, 5,6, 5,2, 5,12, 5,8, 5,4, 5,0, 5,13, 5,9, 5,1, 5,11, 5,7, 5,3, 5
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Goose  : forward scan  : rsep=45, intt=3 spec= 9    w/ global scan(sb=1 eb=15)
    1, 9,5,9,13, 9,3, 9,7, 9,11, 9,15, 9,2, 9,6, 9,10, 9,14, 9,4, 9,8, 9,12, 9
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
IceW   : backward scan : rsep=45, intt=3 spec= 9    w/ global scan(sb=14 eb=0)
    14, 9,10, 9,6, 9,2, 9,12, 9,8, 9,4, 9,0, 9,13,9,,5, 9,1, 9,11, 9,7, 9,3, 9
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
IceE   : forward scan  : rsep=45, intt=3 spec= 4    w/ global scan(sb=1 eb=15)
    1, 4,5, 4,9, 4,13, 4,3, 4,7, 4,11, 4,15, 4,2,4,6, 4,10, 4,14, 4,8, 4,12, 4
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fin    : backward scan : rsep=45, intt=3 spec= 4    w/ global scan(sb=14 eb=0)
    14, 4,10, 4,6, 4,2, 4,12, 4,8, 4,0, 4,13, 4, 9, 4,5, 4,1, 4,11,4,7, 4,3, 4
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Halley : forward scan  : rsep=45, intt=3 spec= 3    w/ global scan(sb=0 eb=14)
    0, 3,4, 3,8, 3,12, 3,2, 3,6, 3,10, 3,14, 3,1, 3,5, 3,9, 3,13,3, 7, 3,11, 3
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sanae  : backward scan : rsep=45, intt=3 spec= 5    w/ global scan(sb=14 eb=0)
    14, 5,10, 5,6, 5,2, 5,12, 5,8, 5,4, 5,0, 5,13, 5,9, 5,1, 5,11, 5,7, 5,3, 5
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SyowaS : backward scan : rsep=45, intt=3 spec= 3    w/ global scan(sb=14 eb=0)
    14, 3,10, 3,6, 3,2, 3,12, 3,8, 3,4, 3, 0, 3,13, 3,9, 3,5, 3,1, 3,11, 3,7,3
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SyowaE : forward scan  : rsep=45, intt=3 spec= 7    w/ global scan(sb=1 eb=15)
    1, 7,5, 7,9, 7,13, 7,3,7,11, 7,15, 7,2, 7,6, 7,10, 7,14, 7,4, 7,8, 7,12, 7
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

6. Notes

'vlptm' is now not good for any beam sequences which include camping beams.
This is because vlptm regards any beams with scan!=0 as start_beam
which means any special camping beam whose scan value is negative
will be regarded as a start_beam and which is meaningless.
If you change vlptm code a bit you might get much more proper vec files
for some of special programs including Basyouhu...
A line 277 in vlptm.c both in Radops2000 version 4.01 and version 4.10,
	if (scan && (bmbak != -1)) { ....
shuold be modified to
	if ((scan==1) && (bmbak != -1)) { ....
(or	if ((scan>0) && (bmbak != -1)) { ....   (this is my favorite...)).
I strongly recommend you to adopt this fix
to get proper vec files even when we do any other mode than normal_scan.
(before grid files officially become used for the ISTP KP data
 or before next Radops is available.)
How do Mike and Rob think about this?


That's it.
Many thanks in advance!

Regards,
Sessai