VERY LONG BASELINE ARRAY OBSERVING LOG -------------------------------------- Project: BL098E Observer: J.E.J. Lovell Project type: VLBA Obs filename: bl098ecrd.* Date/Day: 2002DEC21/355 Ants Used: SC HN NL FD LA PT KP OV BR MK =UT-Time===Comment===============================================MF#===%AD==AMD= Operator is Paul Dyer. VCLOCK & GPS delta okay. 1442 Begin at all sites except MK, which begins later in file. 1458 All readbacks ok. 1508 *SC WEA: Raining. 1515 All readbacks ok. 1517 *BR Formatter FIFO empty errors; only affects a few 10358 seconds of data. 1550-1557 *BR Formatter turned off to work on it. 10358 100 7 1558 BR Bad readbacks due to insufficient data caused by having the formatter turned off untill 1557. All others are ok. 1603-1610 *KP Lost commercial power. COM 100 7 1617 BR WEA: A few high scattered clouds. Ground and dish are frosty. 1623-1629 *BR Formatter turned off to work on it. 10358 100 6 1636-1639 *BR Drive 1, footage=2800 to 2900 is no good. 10358 100 3 S. Durand was writing tape to test problem solution. This was on 14th pass. 1723 MK Begin file. 1721 All readback ok. 1728 %MK Bad readback on drive 2, track 32. 1906 All readbacks ok. 1918 All readbacks ok. 1950 *BR Formatter errors again. 1953 PT WEA: Overcast, dry. 2005 KP WEA: Broken high clouds. Dry. 2048 %FD Bad readbacks on drive 1, tracks 4 and 14. All others ok. 2134-2141 *MK Received "Observing system idle" message OTHER 100 7 and antenna stowed. Project was not running. I resent the observing file and rebooted and it came back up. File must have been truncated in original transmission. 2141 SC End of file. 2159 *BR Formatter errors again. 10358 2219 All readbacks ok. 2224 HN End of file. 2246 NL End of file. 2325 *BR Formatter errors again. 10358 2355 All readbacks ok. 0000 Date is 2002DEC22/356. 0012 *BR Formatter errors again. 10358 0023 FD End of file. 0038 KP End of file. 0043 PT End of file. 0051 *BR Formatter errors again. 10358 0058 KP End of file. 0104 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