From tghosh@naic.edu Sun Apr 30 06:29:15 2006
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 08:28:55 -0400
From: Tapasi Ghosh <tghosh@naic.edu>
To: Richard Porcas <p222rwp@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de>
Cc: "ganesh >> Ganesan R" <ganesh@naic.edu>, vlbi-grp@naic.edu, vlbiobs@nrao.edu, mclausse@nrao.edu, anupreeta@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de, porcas@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de
Subject: Re: BM241 observations

Dear Richard,

I just finished running BM241 here. I am afraid, the best part of the first
1.5 hour was lost due to many
serious problems here. About 5 hours before the run, a high-voltage
transformer developed a short
rendering the control room/Receiver room and the clock/digital backend room
without power. Our maintainance
crew came in immediately, and worked very hard to get power back about 30
mins before the run, but when
all the control software were brought up, a crucial element didn't start up,
making us unable to
set-up the Rx-IF/LO system. By the time all that got sorted out, almost an
hour was gone, and datataking
really began from scan number 49 at Arecibo. I am really sorry, but it was
completely unprecedented,
and our maintainance and electronics/software group provided as much support
as they could.

I do hope that at least the 1.5 hours data that we could record will be
useful to you.

With sincere apologies,

Tapasi