Trigger 74 Description
Sequence: C14 (Venus-2) (ESB)
Trigger 74 (Venus-2 Observation Setup)
This mode is a modification of the Venus-1 observations. The HFR is
allowed to free run,
and the HFR data is NOT compressed. LFR, MFR, and WFR data are also
collected, resulting in the
entire RPWS frequency range (1 Hz - 16 MHz) to be covered.
Trigger 74 is intended to be used to start the Venus observation, then
Triggers 78, 7A, and 7C
may be used to move through the desired configurations. Trigger 78 may
subsequently be used to re-enter the
mode initiated by trigger 74 without incurring the long setup time.
Receiver |
Frequency Range |
Sensors |
Time between Snapshots |
LFR |
1 - 25 Hz |
EX, BX |
16 seconds |
MFR |
25 - 12 KHz |
EX, BZ |
32 seconds |
WFR |
.1 - 2.5 KHz |
EX, EW, BX, BY, BZ |
342 seconds |
HFR |
3.6 KHz - 16 MHz |
EX |
32 seconds |
The HFR is in a special Venus-2 Lightning Scan mode.
This mode is defined by:
Correlations Channels Integ. Size Frequency
Band Ant. Auto- Cross- per Band df Period Rep Steps kHz Start - Stop
---- ---- ----- ------ -------- -- ------ --- ----- ---- ------------
ABC 1E n n 32 n 125 1 3.6-319 kHz
H1 1E n n 1 n 20 1 12 350 125k-3.975MHz
H2 1E n n 1 n 10 1 8 1500 5.475M-15.975MHz
The HFR is free-running, resulting in:
Bands ABC require 0.242 sec to complete, H1 requires 0.242
sec, and H2
requires 0.098 sec
for a total of 2.33 sec per sweep. However, the HFR actually only
performs one complete
sweep every 2.5 seconds.