VERY LONG BASELINE ARRAY OBSERVING LOG -------------------------------------- Project: BW070 Observer: R.C. Walker Project type: VLBA Obs filename: bw070crd.* Date/Day: 2004APR04/095 Ants Scheduled: SC HN NL FD LA PT KP OV BR MK GB EB =UT-Time===Comment===============================================MF#===%AD==AMD= Operator is Paul Dyer. VCLOCK, GPS Delta, and UT1-UTC check ok. 2300 Begin. 2300 *LA WEA: Raining. 2300 WEA: Web cams show clear skies at NL, OV, BR, and MK. All other sites are very cloudy. Communication with HN is intermittent. 2300-1129 %KP 7mm is running a little warm, 89K at 50K stage. 13736 100 749 2306 All readbacks ok. 2315-2320 *PT Autostowed. Power glitch. WEA 100 5 0000 Date is 2004APR05/096. 0005 *FD 7mm receiver is warming. 0120-1129 *FD 7mm is up to 95K. Called site tech,but he FE 100 609 can't do anything about it. The only fix is to warm it up and then cool it back down which will take 12hours at the minimum. 0140 New Operator is Dave Pierce. 0218 All readbacks are okay. 0322-0324 *PT Autostowed. Power bump. Repointed. COM 100 2 0326-0328 *PT Autostowed. Power bump, El #1 armature over COM 100 2 current. Repointed. 0329-0420 *PT Autostowed. Power bump. Keeping down for COM 100 51 awhile. 0356 All readbacks are okay. 0452 All readbacks are okay. 0501 All readbacks are okay. 0510 All readbacks are okay. 0546 All readbacks are okay. 0628 All readbacks are okay. 0710 *LA Bad readbacks on Drive #2, tracks 2,6,10,14 and 30. All other site readbacks are okay. 0745-0809 *PT Autostowed. Taking a series of power bumps. COM 100 24 Will keep stowed for awhile. 0809 *LA Bad readbacks on Drive #2, tracks 2,6,10,18,26,29 and 30. All other site readbacks are okay. 1018 *LA Bad readbacks on Drive #2, tracks 2,6,19,14,18,26,29,30,31 and 32. All other site readbacks are okay. 1035 *LA Bad readbacks on Drive #2, tracks 29-32. All other site readbacks are okay. 1124 *LA Bad readback on Drive #2, track 30. All other site readbacks are okay. 1129 End. Downtime Summary: Total downtime : 1442 min Percentage downtime of observing: 19.3% Average downtime per hour : 11.6 min Total scheduled observing time (# Antennas): 7490 min (10) Notes: * = Entries where data was affected. % = Entries where data may have been affected. & = Entries where the site tech was called out. WEA = Weather entries. MF# = Maintenance form or major downtime category associated with a problem. %AD = The percentage of an antenna affected by a problem. AMD = Total antenna-minutes downtime for a problem. Tsys = System Temperature (TP/SP x Tcal/2) ACU = Antenna Control Unit FRM = Focus/Rotation Mount RFI = Radio Frequency Interference VME = Site control computer CB = Circuit Breaker vclock = Program that compares site clock time to a standard.