Welcome to program SCHED. Version: 6.04 March 2006 The manual is at http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/~cwalker/sched/sched/sched.html Unix users should set $SCHED to the base area where SCHED is installed. Most run time messages will be in sched.runlog Some useful commands to give now if running interactively: SCHedule= : Specify input file. PLOT : Invokes uv, xy, rd, and uptime plotting. FREQLIST=lowF,highF : Make frequency list (MHz). Then exit. EXIT : Leave program. / : End of inputs - run program (or EXIT). SRREAD: Reading source catalog: Program_input RDSET: Reading setup file: bk127c.set TPINI: Reading tape initialization information from SCHED input file. STREAD: Reading station catalog: /home/arana/cwalker/sched/catalogs/stations.dat STREAD: Will read locations file /home/arana/cwalker/sched/catalogs/locations.dat SCHIN: Found 186 input scans. SCHIN: * Automatic tape allocation requested at: Y Sc Hn Nl Fd La Pt Kp Ov Br Mk Gb GETFREQ: Reading frequency file: /home/arana/cwalker/sched/catalogs/freq.dat SCHOPT: First output scan will be number 1 WRTMSG: Special message from routine AUTODOWN: * Stations using automatic tape allocation or disk recording systems are being removed from scans when the source is below the antenna pointing limits. This behavior can be overridden using DODOWN. SCHOPT: There will be 186 output scans ( 1 - 186) from 120/15:36:43 to 120/23:05:30 SUMOPE: Writing summary file bk127c.sum OMSOUT: Writing OMS file bk127c.oms VXWRT : Writing V E X file bk127c.skd VXWRT: You have requested DISK for station Sc VXWRT: You have requested DISK for station Hn VXWRT: You have requested DISK for station Nl VXWRT: You have requested DISK for station Fd VXWRT: You have requested DISK for station La VXWRT: You have requested DISK for station Pt VXWRT: You have requested DISK for station Kp VXWRT: You have requested DISK for station Ov VXWRT: You have requested DISK for station Br VXWRT: You have requested DISK for station Mk VXWRT: You have requested DISK for station Ar ARECIBO has 2 Tsys measurements. Maximum interval = 148 minutes. VXSCH: Tsys calibration at MkIV stations is taken during every gap in recording, but these appear over 15 min apart for the stations listed above! This can be improved by inserting gaps at regular intervals. WRTMSG: Special message from routine VXSCH: For MkIV stations (e.g. most of the EVN) the calibration diode is only fired during gaps in recording. Although the total power is monitored continuously during scans, the calibration diode must be fired regularly to allow these total power levels to be accurately converted to system temperatures. It is recommended that, where possible, you leave a gap in recording at least every 15 minutes to allow the system temperature measurements. The gap should be at least 15 seconds, but you should also try to ensure that these gaps are long enough that all the antennas are on source before the next scan starts. Note that warnings about Westerbork can be safely ignored. ARECIBO : only 1 out of 2 Tsys measurements are on-source VXSCH: Stations listed above are affected by slewing during Tsys calibration WRTMSG: Special message from routine VXSCH: Note that although you may have left gaps during which the system temperature can be measured at MkIV stations, one or more stations are still slewing at the scan starts. System temperatures measured when the antennas are slewing are unlikely to be useful. The time between useful Tsys measurements is therefore likely to be longer than the recommended 15 minutes at the stations listed above. Note that warnings about Westerbork can be safely ignored. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! VXSCH: WARNING: one or more of your VEX stations has continuous recording for more than 90 minutes. At VEX stations disk packs can only be changed during gaps in recording which should be much more frequent than this. Please add some gaps to your schedule! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FLAGS: Writing apriori flagging file bk127c.flag Processing VLA27 Processing VLBA_SC Processing VLBA_HN Processing VLBA_NL Processing VLBA_FD Processing VLBA_LA Processing VLBA_PT Processing VLBA_KP Processing VLBA_OV Processing VLBA_BR Processing VLBA_MK Processing GBT_VLBA Processing ARECIBO