Report on moving the Slough Ionosonde from Ditton Park to the Rutherford Appleton laboratory, Chilton.

Contents

Introduction and descriptions

• Introduction
• The Slough and R.A.L ionosondes
• Ionosondes cont.
• Differences in scaling between the KEL and the DPS

How the data was compared

• Comparing data from the two sites

Detailed results for each parameter

• foF2, the layer critical frequency
• Fmin, the minimum observable frequency
• M(3000)F2, the maximum usable frequency factor
• The virtual height of the F2 layer, h'F2
• Sporadic E critical frequency, foEs
• E layer critical frequency, foE
• F1 layer critical frequency, foF1
• Highest scalable frequency, fxI
• The virtual height of the E layer, h'E
• The virtual height of the F1 layer, foF1
• The virtual height of the sporadic E layer, h'Es

The effects of the new scaling techniques

• Comparison of the original and reanalyzed Chilton data from December 1993.
• Comparison of the reanalysed Chilton data with the original Slough data for December 1993.