JD: 00-162 DoW: FRI/SAT UTC Date: 10JUNE2000

SUMMARY: Sprites from MCS in NE and SD

TLE PREDICTION: 0.30 [0.5 x 0.60]

RESULTS: 40+ sprites from disorganized MCS

LESSONS: GEN III works very well on sprites

PERSONNEL: Lyons, Nelson, Fossum, Nordem, Maria,

STEPS STATUS: STEPS operates

YRFS OPERATION LOGS: Monitored NE and SD storms as soon as dark falls. Frequent, bright, carrot-like and dancing sprites. Uses GEN III and 500 mm tele lens (red)and long blue camera. Sampled VLF, but storms too far to use photodiode, but could easily sub-horizon cloud flashes in GEN III system,, perhaps as far out as 400 km. Stanford telescope captured some events.

STEPS OPERATIONS: STEPS investigates multicellular storm in southeast part of domain, with some +CGs cells.

KEY RESULTS : n/a

Total TLEs from Yucca Ridge This Campaign: 230

FMA

Red Xybion (A)-Patrol: 1 tapes

Sony TRV900 3CCD: Cloud TL during day; 2 sprites tapes at night

GEN III unit; 2 tapes afetr dark of sprites (slight problem with mating attachment)

JVC KY-19: shoot daytime TL/STEPS Cam (to ESE);

Pulnix CCD: shoot various TL scenes

Photodiode: lens mated to original unit, needs to be tested

Winckler PMT: available

GPS: OK

WWV Source: OK

VLF Inspire: sampled

ELF N-S: not available

ELF E-W: not available

NLDN Live: OK

NLDN Paper: 9 maps

NLDN Archive: 2 saves

MRC Data Acquisition: new trigger OK

FMA Data Acquisition: not available

Thunder Mic: available

LANL Tracker: available

Red Xybion (B)-Zoom; 0 tapes

Red Xybion (C)-Tele: 1 tapes

Blue Xybion(D)-zoom: 1 tapes

Mountain Cam: nominal

STEPS Cam: nominal

Shure Mic: OK

NEXRAD Archive: OK

GOES Archive: OK

RUC2 Archive: OK

STANFORD/STAR LAB:

Telescope OK-caught targets

LLTV OK

ELF/VLF OK

UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY: not present

MIT ELF: problems with vertical antenna?

FUELLEKRUG ELF: operational

ISRAELI ELF: nominal