VERY LONG BASELINE ARRAY OBSERVING LOG -------------------------------------- Project: BB023A Observer: T.Beasley Project type: VLBA Obs filename: bb023acrd.* Date/Day: 1994AUG12/224 Ants Used: SC HN NL FD LA PT KP OV BR MK =UT-Time===Comment===============================================MF#===%AD==AMD= 0000 Begin file. Track substitutions: LA rec. #2: 03 -> 00; 26 -> 34 0000-0015 *BR tapes not loaded on drives. HUERR 100 15 Operator is Roy Heatwole. 0035-0053 *BR tape waiting to catch up. HUERR 100 18 0120 Did checkall at all sites. No major problems noted. 0345 New Op. D. Medcalf. 0400 Observer showed up to harass the operator. 0454 %Raining at MK. 0854 *Discovered netmon and vlget had died. Don't know for how long. Some monitor data may have been lost. (A check of sara output shows no obvious gap.) 1000 %Still raining at MK. 1039-1041 *netmon and vlget died again. Some monitor data may SW 50 1 have been lost. 1130 Greg Monk operating. 1150 HN wea: clear. 1203-1205 *SC started writing in forward direction, I SCH 100 2 believe observer made a mistake in the way file was written. 1205-1215 *SC has only one tape drive, and no time for a SCH 100 10 tape change. 1215-1223 *SC not on source yet, had to do obsBomb to allow SCH 100 8 tech to change tape, antenna had stowed. 1242-1256 *SC tape at end of reel due to above problem. SCH 100 14 1300 %Still raining at MK. 1414 FD wea: clear and dry. 1437 KP wea: high thin clouds to north east, warm n dry. 1444 LA wea: clear and dry. 1448 BR wea: scattered clouds, mostly sunny, ground and dish are dry. 1459 OV wea: clear and dry. 1527 %Started raining at NL 1530 NL wea: cloudy n rainy all day. 1547 PT wea: dish,ground dry, sky clear. 1809-2019 %MK communications down. NET 50 65 1945 New operator is Roy Heatwole. 2230-2245 *KP antenna auto-stowed. WEA 100 15 Times are a guess due to work on software. 2253-2400 *KP auto-stowing. ACU 100 67 2400 End. 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 = TP/SP x Tcal/2