Status of the ULF-ELF project at IUS

• 2006 to present - Work suspended. It was a fun project while it lasted!
• Fall 2005 - Spring 2006 - Kirk Reynolds figured out how to take data using LabView hardware/software combination. This looks like the way to go.
• Fall 2005 - The phone line to the barn was cut accidentally sometime in the previous year, the Physical Plant does not intend to reconnect it. We looked into alternative ways to communicate with the site (wireless LAN, phone line to Dr. Ruth's observatory). Testing revealed that one antenna was shorted. We dug them up, two canisters had leaked, were full of water. The antennas are now in the lab awaiting a plan to seal them up again (hopefully with more success).
• 2003-2005 - Forinash and Ray Wisman developed data collection programs to 1) relay data, 2) store data in files 3) analyze data (wavelet analysis) 4) make graphs of data (suitable for web page). Unfortunately each step is currently a separate program. Someone needs to automate the whole thing into a single, automated step.
• Fall 2004 - Samuel Ray Bush and Joshua Dale Heath give a talk at the 10th Annual Indiana University Undergraduate Research Conference, Friday, February 11, 2005.
  
• 07/01 -  Forinash, O'Connor, Sibray published "The IUS and Purdue ELF/ULF project" in Journal of Engineering Education,Vol. 90 No. 3.
• 2001 - Wesley Wiles gives a talk at the Butler University undergraduate research conference.
• 11/7/00 - Data collection has been streamlined down to a lab pro and modems to send data across campus to a  Linux computer in the student research lab.
• 08/28/00 - Students Clark Mumaw, Joseph Oakes, and Wesley Wiles take the new antennas, seal them and burry them.
• 07/00 - New antennas wound (Terry O'Connor, Purdue Programs, arranges this.)
• 1999 - Data collection and analysis continues sporadically and new collection circuits are build and tested.
• 1998 - Sibray gives a talk at the undergraduate conference at UPUI.
• 1998 - New circuits become available from Terry O'Connor's EET circuit class. Holly continues collecting and analyzing data. Data is now being collected by Macintosh computers onto external hard drives. Harding and Milligan work on data analysis.
• 1997 - Terry O'Connor (Purdue Programs) builds and tests new amplification circuits. Holly takes and analyzes data.
• 4/27/97 - Sibray begins third antenna.
• 3/18/97 - Antenna, circuits and data collection begin at remote site (IUS storage barn).
• 1997 - Sibray and Dowell give a talk at the undergraduate research conference at Butler University.
• 12/29/96 -  Data collection begins in the lab using an old Macintosh computer.
• Fall 1996 - First antennas and circuits built by  Holly Sibray, Christopher Bass, Carollyn Dowell, Jennifer Haycraft and other students in P309.