VERY LONG BASELINE ARRAY OBSERVING LOG -------------------------------------- Project: BM207D Observer: E. Middelberg Project type: VLBA Obs filename: bm207dcrd.* Date/Day: 2004AUG06/219 Ants Scheduled: SC HN NL FD LA PT KP OV =UT-Time===Comment===============================================MF#===%AD==AMD= Operator is Jim Ogle. BR and MK are unavailable for observing, down for scheduled maintenance. Sitecam weather: SC partly cloudy broken clouds, HN overcast, remaining sites clear to mostly clear. VCLOCK and gps delta checks okay. 1640 Begin. 1643 Readbacks okay. 1835 Readbacks okay. 1851 Readbacks okay. 1921-1922 *PT autostowed, commercial power glitch. Repointed. COM 100 1 1950-1952 *PT autostowed again, repointed. COM 100 2 2002-2003 *PT autostowed, repointed. Bad weather in the local COM 100 1 area is probably causing lots of brownouts. 2007 %Raining at LA. 2013-2014 *PT autostowed again. COM 100 1 2017-2018 *PT autostowed. COM 100 1 2023-2025 *PT autostowed. COM 100 2 2033-2034 *PT autostowed. COM 100 1 2035 Readbacks okay. 2041-2042 *PT autostowed. COM 100 1 2043-2044 *PT autostowed. COM 100 1 2050 Readbacks okay. 2055-2056 *PT autostowed. COM 100 1 2102-2103 *PT autostowed. COM 100 1 2105-2106 *PT autostowed. COM 100 1 2129 KP reports broken low clouds. 2145 New operator Cyrus M Reed. 2152-2154 *PT Autostowed due to power glitch. Repointed. COM 100 2 2229-2231 *PT Autostowed due to power glitch. Repointed. COM 100 2 2233 *HN bad readback: Drive 1, Track 26. All other readbacks OK. 2234-2236 *PT Autostowed due to power glitch. Repointed. COM 100 2 2239-2241 *PT Autostowed due to power glitch. Repointed. COM 100 2 2310-2313 *SC Autostowed due to power glitch. Repointed. COM 100 3 Now running on 150kW generator power. 2315 WEA: Cloud cover via webcam: WEA: SC Unknown (night). HN Cumulus (15%). WEA: NL,FD,LA,PT Cumulus (10%,5%,50%,5%). WEA: KP Stratocumulus (100%). OV Clear skies. WEA: Wet at KP - other sites dry. 2357-0002 *KP Autostowed due to power glitch. Repointed. COM 100 5 0000 Date is 2004AUG07/220. 0013-0015 *SC Autostowed due to power glitch. Repointed. COM 100 2 Now running on commercial power. 0019-0020 *KP Autostowed due to power glitch. Repointed. COM 100 1 0020-0022 *PT Autostowed due to power glitch. Repointed. COM 100 2 0031 *HN bad readback: Drive 1, Track 32. All other readbacks OK. 0033-0038 *PT Autostowed due to power glitch. Repointed. COM 100 5 0046 *HN bad readbacks: Drive 1, Tracks 14,19,23,30,32. All other readbacks OK. 0107-0109 *PT Autostowed due to power glitch. Repointed. COM 100 2 0133 SC finished observing. 0137-0143 *PT Autostowed due to power glitch. Repointed. COM 100 6 0147-0150 *PT Autostowed due to power glitch. Repointed. COM 100 3 0156-0158 *PT Autostowed due to power glitch. Repointed. COM 100 2 0213 HN finished observing. 0226-0228 *PT Autostowed due to power glitch. Repointed. COM 100 2 0230 All readbacks OK. 0231-0233 *PT Autostowed due to power glitch. Repointed. COM 100 2 0237-0239 *PT Autostowed due to power glitch. Repointed. COM 100 2 0331 NL finished observing. 0335 End. Downtime Summary: Total downtime : 59 min Percentage downtime of observing: 1.1% Average downtime per hour : 0.7 min Total scheduled observing time (# Antennas): 5240 min (8) 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.