AUSTRALIAN IONOSONDE OPERATORS

In 1994, a short meeting was held at IPS to commemorate Arthur Drury's retirement from service with IPS. Arthur, like our other station operators, then took up a contract to continue running the IPS station at Townsville for a short time and scale ionogram records. The people in the photograph taken at this function are largely responsible for the operation and scaling of all Australian ionosonde data since 1950. They are, from left to right:

At the time this photograph was taken the people and their positions within IPS were, from left to right:

• Ivan Bozic - operator and current contractor for Canberra station. Ivan also scales Canberra, Mundaring and Norfolk Island data.
• Arthur Drury - past operator and contractor for Townsville station. Arthur scaled Darwin and Christchurch data until recently when he was diagnosed to be seriously ill.
• Paul Alekna - current manager for the IPS Ionosonde Network. Paul scales Davis data.
• George Goldstone - past operator and current contractor for Hobart station. George scales Hobart and Macquarie Island data.
• Clarrie McCue - past Director of IPS. Clarrie died a few days after this photograph was taken.
• Peter Davies - past station manager and current contractor for scaling data. Peter scales Mawson and recently Biak data.

Ivan, Arthur and George in particular are responsible for scaling over 200 station years, or 2,500 station-parameter years of data between them.

This picture was taken in 1995. Since then Arthur, Ivan and Paul have also died (July 1999).

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