urn:nasa:pds:vg2-pra-sat:data-lowband-6sec:pra-v 1.0 1.25.0.0 Product_Observational 1997 This product contains high time resolution and low rate receiver band 6 second sweep data from the Radio Astronomy instrument on Voyager 2 from the Saturn encounter. The data are provided for 70 low band channels ranging from 1326.0 to 1.2 kHz and spaced 19.2 kHz apart. Columns SWEEP1 through SWEEP8 each contains 71 fields corresponding to one status word and 70 channel data readings. Michael Louis Kaiser Goddard Space Flight Center https://ror.org/0171mag52 1 2026-03-31 1.0 Original PRA_V.TAB from the PDS3 VG2-S-PRA-3-RDR-LOWBAND-6SEC-V1.0 dataset, DATA directory, migrated to PDS4. 1981-09-08T00:00:46.000Z 1981-09-28T23:59:08.000Z Science Calibrated Magnetosphere Fields Electric Waves Magnetosphere Fields Magnetic Waves Voyager Mission urn:nasa:pds:context:investigation:mission.voyager data_to_investigation Voyager 2 Host urn:nasa:pds:context:instrument_host:spacecraft.vg2 is_instrument_host Planetary Radio Astronomy Receiver Instrument urn:nasa:pds:context:instrument:vg2.pra is_instrument Saturn Planet urn:nasa:pds:context:target:planet.saturn data_to_target Saturn Encounter 44391:22:798 45021:20:800 2 VG2-S-PRA-3-RDR-LOWBAND-6SEC-V1.0:PRA_V:PRA_V.TAB data_to_calibrated_source_product 10.17189/1520011 PDS Planetary Plasma Interactions Node The DOI provided references the PDS3 source data set. PRA_V.TAB 1996-04-24 79721964 34874 853bdf121ee7e6a5d5b479f3947da3b9 0 34874 Carriage-Return Line-Feed 2 8 2286 DATE 1 1 ASCII_Integer 6 Year, month and day of the sample at the start of the first sweep for the record in the format YYMMDD. SECOND 2 7 ASCII_Integer 6 Seconds of day, to the nearest second, at the start of the sweep. The first value in low band (1326.0 kHz) occurs some 3.9 seconds after this time with samples at successively lower frequencies spaced 0.03 seconds apart. Only one time is given for the entire major frame, thus the start of each sweep is the time given plus 6 seconds times the sweep number minus 1 (i.e. 0 through 7). 71 1 0 13 284 SWEEP1 1 1 ASCII_Integer 4 MILLIBELL 71 4-byte integer data values. The first is a status word, the other 70 are low band channels 1326.0 to 1.2 kHz. For the status word the 12 least significant bits have used, although not all 12 have meaning for PRA low band. Numbering those bits 0 for least significant to 11 for most significant, the bits that have meaning are as follows: bit 0: 15 dB attenuator in use when equal to 1 1: 30 dB attenuator in use when equal to 1 2: 45 dB attenuator in use when equal to 1 9,10 (together): polarization of first channel sampled (1326.0 kHz) according to the scheme: 9\10 0 1 0 R L 1 L R If the status word is zero, any data in that receiver sweep should be discarded. 0 71 1 0 297 284 SWEEP2 1 1 ASCII_Integer 4 MILLIBELL 71 4-byte integer data values. The first is a status word, the other 70 are low band channels 1326.0 to 1.2 kHz. For the status word the 12 least significant bits have used, although not all 12 have meaning for PRA low band. Numbering those bits 0 for least significant to 11 for most significant, the bits that have meaning are as follows: bit 0: 15 dB attenuator in use when equal to 1 1: 30 dB attenuator in use when equal to 1 2: 45 dB attenuator in use when equal to 1 9,10 (together): polarization of first channel sampled (1326.0 kHz) according to the scheme: 9\10 0 1 0 R L 1 L R If the status word is zero, any data in that receiver sweep should be discarded. 0 71 1 0 581 284 SWEEP3 1 1 ASCII_Integer 4 MILLIBELL 71 4-byte integer data values. The first is a status word, the other 70 are low band channels 1326.0 to 1.2 kHz. For the status word the 12 least significant bits have used, although not all 12 have meaning for PRA low band. Numbering those bits 0 for least significant to 11 for most significant, the bits that have meaning are as follows: bit 0: 15 dB attenuator in use when equal to 1 1: 30 dB attenuator in use when equal to 1 2: 45 dB attenuator in use when equal to 1 9,10 (together): polarization of first channel sampled (1326.0 kHz) according to the scheme: 9\10 0 1 0 R L 1 L R If the status word is zero, any data in that receiver sweep should be discarded. 0 71 1 0 865 284 SWEEP4 1 1 ASCII_Integer 4 MILLIBELL 71 4-byte integer data values. The first is a status word, the other 70 are low band channels 1326.0 to 1.2 kHz. For the status word the 12 least significant bits have used, although not all 12 have meaning for PRA low band. Numbering those bits 0 for least significant to 11 for most significant, the bits that have meaning are as follows: bit 0: 15 dB attenuator in use when equal to 1 1: 30 dB attenuator in use when equal to 1 2: 45 dB attenuator in use when equal to 1 9,10 (together): polarization of first channel sampled (1326.0 kHz) according to the scheme: 9\10 0 1 0 R L 1 L R If the status word is zero, any data in that receiver sweep should be discarded. 0 71 1 0 1149 284 SWEEP5 1 1 ASCII_Integer 4 MILLIBELL 71 4-byte integer data values. The first is a status word, the other 70 are low band channels 1326.0 to 1.2 kHz. For the status word the 12 least significant bits have used, although not all 12 have meaning for PRA low band. Numbering those bits 0 for least significant to 11 for most significant, the bits that have meaning are as follows: bit 0: 15 dB attenuator in use when equal to 1 1: 30 dB attenuator in use when equal to 1 2: 45 dB attenuator in use when equal to 1 9,10 (together): polarization of first channel sampled (1326.0 kHz) according to the scheme: 9\10 0 1 0 R L 1 L R If the status word is zero, any data in that receiver sweep should be discarded. 0 71 1 0 1433 284 SWEEP6 1 1 ASCII_Integer 4 MILLIBELL 71 4-byte integer data values. The first is a status word, the other 70 are low band channels 1326.0 to 1.2 kHz. For the status word the 12 least significant bits have used, although not all 12 have meaning for PRA low band. Numbering those bits 0 for least significant to 11 for most significant, the bits that have meaning are as follows: bit 0: 15 dB attenuator in use when equal to 1 1: 30 dB attenuator in use when equal to 1 2: 45 dB attenuator in use when equal to 1 9,10 (together): polarization of first channel sampled (1326.0 kHz) according to the scheme: 9\10 0 1 0 R L 1 L R If the status word is zero, any data in that receiver sweep should be discarded. 0 71 1 0 1717 284 SWEEP7 1 1 ASCII_Integer 4 MILLIBELL 71 4-byte integer data values. The first is a status word, the other 70 are low band channels 1326.0 to 1.2 kHz. For the status word the 12 least significant bits have used, although not all 12 have meaning for PRA low band. Numbering those bits 0 for least significant to 11 for most significant, the bits that have meaning are as follows: bit 0: 15 dB attenuator in use when equal to 1 1: 30 dB attenuator in use when equal to 1 2: 45 dB attenuator in use when equal to 1 9,10 (together): polarization of first channel sampled (1326.0 kHz) according to the scheme: 9\10 0 1 0 R L 1 L R If the status word is zero, any data in that receiver sweep should be discarded. 0 71 1 0 2001 284 SWEEP8 1 1 ASCII_Integer 4 MILLIBELL 71 4-byte integer data values. The first is a status word, the other 70 are low band channels 1326.0 to 1.2 kHz. For the status word the 12 least significant bits have used, although not all 12 have meaning for PRA low band. Numbering those bits 0 for least significant to 11 for most significant, the bits that have meaning are as follows: bit 0: 15 dB attenuator in use when equal to 1 1: 30 dB attenuator in use when equal to 1 2: 45 dB attenuator in use when equal to 1 9,10 (together): polarization of first channel sampled (1326.0 kHz) according to the scheme: 9\10 0 1 0 R L 1 L R If the status word is zero, any data in that receiver sweep should be discarded. 0