VERY LONG BASELINE ARRAY OBSERVING LOG -------------------------------------- Project: BM211H Observer: A. Marscher Project type: VLBA Obs filename: bm211hcrd.* Date/Day: 2005APR01/091 Ants Scheduled: SC HN NL FD LA PT KP OV BR MK =UT-Time===Comment===============================================MF#===%AD==AMD= Operator is Paul Dyer. LA is writing Mark V disc pack NRAO-023 in bank B. PT is writing Mark V disc pack NRAO-047 in bank A. KP is writing Mark V disc pack NRAO-038 in bank A. 2031 Begin at all stations. 2031 WEA: Web cams show clear skies at SC, HN, FD, LA, PT, KP, BR, MK. NL is cloudy. OV is partly cloudy. 2130 KP Writing Mark V disc pack NRAO-024 in bank B. 2213-2233 *LA Rebooting station computer. Software update. SW 100 20 Trying to fix Mark V, short scan problem. 2223 %FD Bad readback on drive 1, track 05. All others were ok. 2239 LA is writing Mark V disc pack NRAO-066 in bank A. 2243-2302 *LA rebooting station computer again. SW 100 19 2245 New operator is Jim Ogle. 2259 *LA computer back up but antenna went into Standby during the downtime so I had to repoint it. 2313-2315 *LA being rebooted again. SW 100 2 2342-2344 *LA being rebooted again. SW 100 2 0000 Date is 2005APR02/092. 0037 Readbacks okay. 0053-0109 *LA being rebooted again. SW 100 16 0107 *LA computer back up but antenna had autostowed; repointed. 0123-0125 *KP being rebooted to load same software fix as LA. SW 100 2 0153 Readbacks okay. 0224-0233 *SC rotation motor overspeed fault; cleared that but 15359 100 9 then the rotation would not reach the commanded position. 0300 *FD bad readbacks on track 6, drive #1. Other sites okay. 0455 New operator is Juan Cordova. 0455 *MK BAd readback drive #1 track 14. All others OK. 0754 All readbacks OK. 0954 All readbacks OK. 1003-1020 *KP Antenna autostowed. ACU 100 17 1101 %HN WEA: Raining. 1114 Readbacks OK. 0100-1233 *LA Data is flagged as bad due to Mark V software glitch. Data is actually ok. 1233 End. Downtime Summary: Total downtime : 87 min Percentage downtime of observing: 0.9% Average downtime per hour : 0.5 min Total scheduled observing time (# Antennas): 9620 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.