[IGSMAIL-0555] Monument Peak PGGA

[Yehuda]

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IGS Electronic Mail      Tue Apr  5  8:35:30 PDT 1994      Message Number 0555
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Author: Yehuda Bock, Keith Stark
Subject: Monument Peak PGGA

Date: 5 April 1994

A new site, Monument Peak, has been installed in the Southern California PGGA
by SIO in collaboration with Goddard Space Flight Center.  This station is an active NASA Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR) facility.  The baseline from Monument 
Peak to Quincy (also active) has a long record of geodetic observations.  Site 
ties have already been made to existing SLR and GPS monuments but have not yet 
been analyzed.

The first day of tracking was 1 April.  Data will be downloaded by SIO via an
Internet link to the site.  However, the computer at the site needs a hardware
upgrade (new serial port) for downloading the data from the receiver.  We plan
to perform this upgrade this week. Until then, data will be available on the SIO
archive with a 4-5 day lag.  

The site information form mailed to the IGS is given below.

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     SITE INFORMATION FORM
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0. Form

        Prepared by            : Yehuda Bock
        Date                   : April 4, 1994
        Report type            : NEW
 
1. Site Identification of the GPS monument

        Site Name              : Monument Peak PGGA station
        4 char ID              : MONP
        Monument Inscription   : None
        IERS DOMES Number      : TBD
        CDP Number             : None
        Date                   : April 1, 1994
        Additional information : PGGA - Permanent GPS Geodetic Array in S. California

2. Site Location

        City                   : Laguna Mountains
                                 San Diego County
        Country                : California USA
        Tectonic Plate         : Pacific-North America plate boundary
        Additional information :

3. GPS Receiver

        Type                   : Ashtech ZX-II3 (Z-12)
        Serial Number          : 700724-6(B) 01426
        Firmware Version       : 1C01-1C00
        Date                   : March 31, 1994

4. GPS Antenna

        Type                   : Ashtech GEODETIC L1/L2 P
        Serial Number          : 700228A1723
        Date                   : April 1, 1994

        Vertical Antenna Height: 0.0390 m
        Antenna Reference Point: ARP=BPA
        Date                   : March 31, 1994

5. Local Site Ties -- In progress
        
6. Frequency standard

        H-maser /   /   Cesium /   /    Quartz /   /     Internal / X /
        Other (specify)        :
        Date                   : March 31, 1994

7. Collocation -- NASA SLR facility

8. On-site, Point of Contact Agency Information 

        Agency                 : Scripps Institution of Oceanography
        Contact                : Keith Stark / Yehuda Bock
        Address                : IGPP 0225, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
                                 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0225
        Telephone              : (619) 534-7692 (0229/5292)
        E-mail                 : stark at pgga.ucsd.edu, bock at pgga.ucsd.edu 
        Fax                    : (619) 534-9873

9. Responsible Operations Agency (same)

10. Please insert here the character graphics corresponding to the 
antenna type. Check, complete or change if necessary the antenna 
dimensions.

C               Ashtech: GEODETIC L1/L2 P
C
C                           ^
C                 +-------------------+
C  +--+ +-------+-----------+-----------+--------+ +--+  <-- 0.064    
C                                                              TGP=L1=L2
C+-+--+ +------------+-------------+-------------+ +--+-+ <--  0.060  BGP
C                    |-------------|
C                    |-------------|
C                    |-------------|
C                    |-------------|
C                    +------x------+                  <--  0.000  ARP=BPA
C
C                  <--    0.080    -->
C      <--                0.2636                -->
C<--                      0.286                       -->