{"id":17,"date":"2014-11-18T04:59:26","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T04:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/?p=17"},"modified":"2014-12-10T17:14:24","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T17:14:24","slug":"background","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/2014\/11\/18\/background\/","title":{"rendered":"Background"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our mission is to install a world class ionosphere research radar at the new Korean base called <a title=\"Jang Bogo Station\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jang_Bogo_Station\">Jang Bogo Station<\/a>.\u00a0 This is sponsored by the Korean Polar Research Institute (<a title=\"KOPRI home page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kopri.re.kr\/exclude\/userIndex\/engIndex.do\">KOPRI)<\/a>.\u00a0 This radar needs a large wire antenna, four towers each, 120ft tall and spaced on a 250 ft square.\u00a0 There is a mile of wire hanging between these towers.\u00a0 This will be a copy of one that we have at the NASA Wallops Island Flight Facility in Virginia.\u00a0 The antenna looks something like this picture. \u00a0\u00a0 This photo was taken extremely rare opportunity of an ice storm while I was at Wallops .<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2014\/11\/ZZLPA-Snow.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16\" src=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2014\/11\/ZZLPA-Snow-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"Transmit antenna for the Wallops Island research HF radar\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2014\/11\/ZZLPA-Snow-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2014\/11\/ZZLPA-Snow-1024x513.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2014\/11\/ZZLPA-Snow.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Transmit Antenna at Wallops Island<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our mission is to install a world class ionosphere research radar at the new Korean base called Jang Bogo Station.\u00a0 This is sponsored by the Korean Polar Research Institute (KOPRI).\u00a0 This radar needs a large wire antenna, four towers each, 120ft tall and spaced on a 250 ft square.\u00a0 There is a mile of wire&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/2014\/11\/18\/background\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-06 15:53:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}