IMOS - ACORN - Blackfellows Cave HF ocean radar station (Bonney Coast, South Australia, Australia)

Created 25/06/2017

Updated 11/08/2023

The Blackfellows Cave (BFCV) HF ocean radar site (37.940 S 140.457 E) is one of two HF ocean radars covering the Bonney Coast, South Australia. The other HF ocean radar station is at Nora Creina. The HF ocean radar coverage is from the coast to beyond the edge of the continental shelf.

The BFCV HF ocean radar is a SeaSonde crossed-loop direction finding array. This radar operates at a frequency of 5.211 MHz, with a bandwidth of 50 KHz, a maximum range of 200 Km and a range resolution of 3 Km. The antenna bearing is 257 deg true east of north (approximately west by south-west).

Within the HF radar coverage area surface current radials are measured.

This station was decommissioned in March 2017.

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Title IMOS - ACORN - Blackfellows Cave HF ocean radar station (Bonney Coast, South Australia, Australia)
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/27982569-0f02-4050-a104-633d9fdbd48e
Contact Point
Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS)
info@aodn.org.au
Reference Period 25/06/2017
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