Subject: [IGSMAIL-0673] NEW SITE
From: Martin Hendy / AUSLIG
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 1994 11:14:12 PDT

IGS Electronic Mail      Wed Jul 13 11:14:12 PDT 1994      Message Number 0673
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Author: Martin Hendy / AUSLIG
Subject: NEW SITE: Macca

A permanent GPS receiver has been installed at the Australian Sub-Antarctic
Research Station on MacQuarie Island, in the Southern Ocean. The monument is 
a concrete pillar approximately 30 metres from the station buildings.

The GPS antenna is currently located on the pillar and will soon have an acrylic
 dome erected over it.

Monument inscription: none

This is a permanent installation.

Brief station information follows and a site report has been submitted to IGSCB.

Station Information
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Installation Date: July 1994
Monument Mark: 5/8" stub in centre of stainless steel plate set in concrete pillar
Receiver Type: Rogue SNR-8100 (Turbo Rogue rackmount)
Receiver Software: V2.8.33.1
Frequency Reference: external rubidium
Antenna Height: 0.1025 m (arp = base of antenna)
Approximate Station Coordinates:
(ITRF from an unconstrained global solution)

        Lat:  S  54 29 58.3197
        Long: E 158 56  8.9915
        Ht:        -6.590 m
        X:  -3464038.4828 m
        Y:   1334172.9560 m
        Z:  -5169224.5040 m

Data Availability
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Data for this site is available from:

ftp.auslig.gov.au
user   = ftp
passwd = email address

It is expected that data will be available daily within 4 hours of 
00:00 UTC.

The data is held on a Sun system in unix compressed rinex files.

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Martin Hendy       Telephone: +61 6 201 4350     FAX: +61 6 201 4366
                   Email: [email-masked] 
Geodetic Unit                    
Australian Surveying & Land Information Group (AUSLIG)  
P.O. Box 2          
Belconnen ACT 2616
AUSTRALIA
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