JD: 00-145 DoW: TUE/WED UTC Date: 24MAY2000 SUMMARY: No Weather. Continue Setting Up Equipment.Auroroa YRFS OPS SUMMARY: Continuing with equipment set up, check out and testing. STEPSCam on line, along with forecast and nowcast links. Finalizing STEPS website upgrades. Stanford continues to set up RF recordings, telescope and VCRs. After sunset, widespread diffuse aurora in north and northeast sky. Mostly green, some hints of red. Reached to 45 degrees or higher. Visible till well after midnight. Also shot an hour of red Xybion time lapse of aorora (0415-0515Z). Interval timed with Sony CCD on image integration until sunrise. No hiss heard on the VLF. STEPS OPERATIONS: Some problems with LMA overheating being resolved. T-1 line is intermittent at OPS center. All other systems nominal. Total TLEs from Yucca Ridge This Campaign: 0 KEY RESULTS: can get moderately bright aurora with Sony CCD. TLE PREDICTION: No deep convective clouds or storms in High Plains RESULTS: N/A LESSONS: PERSONNEL: Lyons, Nelson, Fossum, Nordem, Trabuco, Gerken STEPS STATUS: Continue set up and check out. No operations FMA EQUIPMENT: Red LLTV (A)-Patrol:tested, working Sony TRV900 3CCD: daytime TL (to north); night TL of aurora & sunrise (to NE) JVC KY-19: shoot daytime TL/STEPS Cam (to ESE) Pulnix CCD: shoot various TL scenes Photodiode: completed, not tested Winckler PMT: available GPS: OK WWV Source: OK VLF Inspire: OK ELF N-S: not available ELF E-W: not available NLDN Live: OK NLDN Paper: available NLDN Archive: none saved MRC Data Acq: not available FMA Data Acq: not available Thunder Mic: available LANL Tracker: working Red LLTV (B)-Zoom: working Red LLTV (C)-Tele: working Blue LLTV (D)-zoom: working, excellent images Mountain Cam: nominal STEPS Cam: nominal Shure Mic: OK NEXRAD Archive: OK GOES Archive: OK RUC2 Archive: OK STANFORD/STAR LAB: Telescope: setting up LLTV: setting up ELF/VLF: setting up UTAH STATE: not present MIT ELF: nominal ISRAELI ELF: nominal