Punta Salinas blanking check

Nov 2013

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    Punta salinas blanks their radar in the AO. Back in 2006 we did a test with them checking various blanking regions. Prior and after this test, the blanking region was set to +/- 45 degrees in the AO direction.
     There has been intermods caused by the punta salinas in the  alfa and lband wide data. I went back over some older galfacts data to see whether the punta salinas value was still +/- 45 degrees. What i found was:


       
Dates the Punta Salinas blanking sector was checked
date
 punta Salinas blanking sector
in AO direction [degs]
 plots of blanking
26nov13
 +/- 11.25 deg
 (.ps) (.pdf)
24aug13
+/- 11.4 deg
 (.ps) (.pdf)
22jun12
 +/- 11.2 deg
 (.ps) (.pdf)
02nov11
 +/- 38 deg
 (.html)


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