VERY LONG BASELINE ARRAY OBSERVING LOG -------------------------------------- Project: BW067J Observer: R.C. Walker Project type: VLBA Obs filename: bw067jcrd.* Date/Day: 2003DEC08/342 Ants Scheduled: SC HN NL FD LA PT KP OV BR MK =UT-Time===Comment===============================================MF#===%AD==AMD= Operator is Jim Ogle. %Snow in dish likely at HN. %Snow and ice in dish likely at BR, sleeting/snowing right now. VCLOCK and gps delta okay. 0106 Begin at all sites except MK, which begins later. 0106-1206 *NL not available for observing, bad board in the 12974 100 660 site VME keeps causing the observing system to crash. 0107-0114 *SC autostowed, commercial power glitch. Repointed. COM 100 7 0111 Readbacks okay. 0140 BR reports overcast skies, light snow falling, about 1.5 inches on the ground. 0224 Readbacks okay. 0245 New operator Cyrus M Reed. 0245-1206 *KP periodic RFI, CHs 01 and 02. 0245-1206 *LA periodic RFI, CHs 02 and 04. 0337 All readbacks OK. 0447 MK now observing and on source. 0447-1206 *MK periodic RFI, CHs 01 and 02. 0451 *PT bad readbacks: Drive 2, Tracks 03,05. All other readbacks OK. 0605 All readbacks OK. 0714 All readbacks OK. 0719 All readbacks OK. 0808-0809 *SC autostowed due to power bump. Repointed. COM 100 1 0829 All readbacks OK. 0834 All readbacks OK. 0856 SC,HN readbacks OK. 0920 HN readbacks OK. 0948 All readbacks OK. 0953 All readbacks OK. 1107 MK readbacks OK. 1112 All readbacks OK. 1134 FD,LA,PT readbacks OK. 1201 MK finished observing. 1202 All readbacks OK. 1206 End. Downtime Summary: Total downtime : 668 min Percentage downtime of observing: 10.1% Average downtime per hour : 6.1 min Total scheduled observing time (# Antennas): 6600 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.