VERY LONG BASELINE ARRAY OBSERVING LOG -------------------------------------- Project: BM247H Observer: Marscher, A. Project type: VLBA Obs filename: bm247hcrd.* Date/Day: 2007APR11/101 Ants Scheduled: SC HN NL FD LA PT KP OV BR MK =UT-Time===Comment===============================================MF#===%AD==AMD= Operator is Paul Padilla GPS delta, UT1-UTC, and VClock are all ok %NL WEA: Very Cloudy, occasional light precipitation 1754 Begin at all sites except MK 1824 MK begins 1913-2003 *NL power supply problems A Rack flagged 20174 100 50 &Site Tech called 1920 Observing shut down at NL until power supply issue is resolved 1945-1946 *KP autostowed, possibly due to wind or power glitch OTHER 100 1 2000 NL power supply swapped out 2015-2046 *NL power supply problems again 20174 100 31 2020 Observing shut down at NL again. 2040 NL Tech suspects A Rack may have gotten wet from the recent precipitation. 2145 New operator is Heidi Gerhardt 2152-0209 *NL power supply bad, not getting data 20174 100 257 Taken out of observation. 2205-2209 *FD focus is off FRM 100 4 2231-2232 *MK switched disc to record on NRAO-175, may TAPE 100 1 have lost a few seconds of data. 0000 Date is 2007APR12/102. 0118 *PT 35+ mph wind caution 0232 *OV 35+ wind caution 0553 New Operator is Alan Kerr 0715-0722 HN out of point. repointed. OTHER 100 7 1029 %HN high Tsys. overcast. 1334 %HN precipitation starting. 1338 NL mosly clear sky. LA overcast. 1345 New Operator: Paul Padilla 1357 BR WEA: Few High Thin Scattered Clouds. 1400 %LA WEA: Overcast 1526-1723 *OV autostowed in wind gust. Winds remain high, WEA 100 117 so I will leave it out of observation for now. 1754 End. Downtime Summary: Total downtime : 468 min Percentage downtime of observing: 3.2% Average downtime per hour : 2.0 min Total scheduled observing time (# Antennas): 14400 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.