1) We have the standard
MADAR, on-station and not very far from local skywatch teams.
2) We will be testing
all the equipment right here in phase one.
3) After that we will go
to phase two and test away from any normal hotspot in an area
nearby but close to a baseball field.
4) If all the tests go
as planned we will set up a skywatch about
60 miles west of Newburgh, In in Norris City, IL at node 115.
See attachment
5) Nodes participating
will include Norris City, Mt. Vernon, Evansville, Newburgh, Santa
Claus, and Corydon. They won't be watching the skies but their
MADAR units will be storing data as usual during the excercise.
6) Newburgh MADAR Operations Center will be recording FR24 with
a/c scanner inputted while the excercise is going on.
6) Initial tests,
phase two and
skywatch will
utilyze a tripod-mounted SyOnyx Aurora night vision camera
bluetoothing live images to a special tripod-mounted 20" monitor.
HDMI outputs from the flatscreen will provide video to a VHS
recorder An attached GQ GMC 500 geiger counter will be
powered by a USB from the Stanley FatMax power inverter, which
also powers the 20" flatscreen.
Another tripod with a forward mounted low slung laptop will use a
hotbot to operate Flight Radar 24. while audios from the aircraft
scanner with special antenna will be recorded on channel one.
Cell phones will be used to communicate with other nodes and
members will also have binoculars, a digital and an analog
compass, two EMF 822A field testers, a K-II, and a temperature
gauge, two camcoders, one with night vision, a GQ- GMC-300 geiger
counter with audible clicks to right channel on the VHS recorder.
A strobe beacon mounted on a pole.