FTEY in Flatey

FTEY is our fifth new station in North Iceland, and it is located on Flatey Island, just north of the Husavik-Flatey fault (66.16031N, 17.84793W). On the picture one can see Thorgils, Sævar (who took us there on his boat and helped us with the setup), Sjonni and Janik, behind the antenna. Here we used a PBO-style setup, with four steel rods that were cemented into shallow drillholes and welded together at the top. There is no good bedrock on Flatey, but under about 1 m of soil, there are some consolidated sediments that appeared stable, at least it wasn't too easy to drill into them. The receiver gets power from a nearby IMO windpower generator that was set up a few years ago for a seismometer nearby. We also hope to use the already established seismic-data radiolink from Flatey to Husavik mountain for the GPS data. This station has been collecting data since 25 September 2006.

-Sjonni