VERY LONG BASELINE ARRAY OBSERVING LOG -------------------------------------- Project: BH126D Observer: D. Harris Project type: VLBA Obs filename: bh126dcrd.* Date/Day: 2005APR19/109 Ants Scheduled: HN NL FD LA PT KP OV BR MK =UT-Time===Comment===============================================MF#===%AD==AMD= Operator is Paul Dyer. VCLCOK, GPS Delta, and UT1-UTC check ok. SC is unavailable due to major maintainance. LA is writing Mark V disc pack NRAO-046 in bank A. KP is writing Mark V disc pack NRAO-059 in bank A. 0153 Begin at all stations. 0159 All readbacks ok. 0200-0214 *KP Disc stopped recording. REC 100 14 Previous scan was a readback scan. Tried rebooting the station computer. No help. Will reboot the Mark V unit, then the station computer. Looks ok now. 0237 %FD WEA: Wind gusts > 35mph. 0237-0309 *KP Mark V unit stopped recording again. 15986 100 32 Tried reboots as before, etc. Nothing helped. Switched to disc pack JIVE-014 in bank B. 0248-0513 *FD Lost commercial power. On generator. Antenna COM 100 145 stowed. 0308 All readbacks ok. 0310 FD Cryo compresser A pressures equalized after the loss of commercial power. Receivers warming. &Site tech called. 0315 All readbacks ok. 0336 FD Site tech on site. 0431 All readbacks ok. 0519 %KP WEA: Wind gusts > 35mph. 0541 All readbacks ok. 0543 New operator is Jim Ogle. 0553-0554 *KP autostowed, high wind gusts. Repointed. WEA 100 1 0841 End at HN. 0949 End. Downtime Summary: Total downtime : 192 min Percentage downtime of observing: 4.5% Average downtime per hour : 2.7 min Total scheduled observing time (# Antennas): 4284 min (9) 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.