Commissioning of the Rothera VHF SKiYMET radar July 2004

Genesis Software completes commissioning of the Rothera SKiYMET radar in Antarctica for the University of Bath.

SKiYMET Antenna
SKiYMET Antenna

This system is a standard VHF meteor radar with a 6kW, 7.5% duty cycle pulsed transmitter connected to a crossed 2 element Yagi antenna.

Radar equipment
Radar equipment

The receive system is 5 crossed 2 element Yagi in a standard meteor radar configuration to allow inteferometric analysis of meteor echoes for position determination.