Day Eleven

Meeting of the bigwigs at EISCAT this morning. Said hello to Tony and Ingemar. Andrew asked Roger if he could extend the run on Saturday to try and make the best of the potentially better weather. This now includes running the Lancaster and UCL experiments depending on what the weather is like at Tromso and Kiruna respectively.

We took Todd to the Observatory this morning and listened to his talk. Saw some very nice data. The weather had brightened; temperatures increased and the cloud deck had risen. The mountain behind EISCAT was visible for the first time in days. There was some wind but on the whole it looked like it might just clear up.

Got back to Ramfjord in time for lunch after which we decided to use the good weather to best effect and do some ARIES repairs. Before that we headed over to the main building; I made some necessary preparations for my runs tomorrow morning. In that short space of time the weather changed. The clouds descended once again and were accompanied by wind and rain. ARIES looked a lot less attractive, hopefully we will have the chance to get out there on Sunday since the Japanese are hogging almost the whole day.

DROP is scheduled to start in 45 minutes but looks unlikely with the current weather. Other than that we have nothing booked for this evening. The UHF and VHF are both running with Heating at the moment so things are looking good.