VERY LONG BASELINE ARRAY OBSERVING LOG -------------------------------------- Project: BD087L Observer: V. Dhawan Project type: VLBA Obs filename: bd087lcrd.* Date/Day: 2004DEC20/355 Ants Scheduled: SC HN NL FD LA PT KP OV BR MK =UT-Time===Comment===============================================MF#===%AD==AMD= Operator is Jim Ogle. VCLOCK and gps delta checks okay. LA writing to Mk5 disc NRAO-045. PT writing to Mk5 disc NRAO-036. KP writing to Mk5 disc NRAO-041. 0118 Begin. 0118-0639 *OV 4cm receiver warm. 15394 50 160 0157 Readbacks okay. 0227 PT now writing to Mk5 disc NRAO-040. 0237-0320 *HN rotation position error. 15412 100 43 0238 Readbacks okay. 0242 New operator is Paul Dyer. *HN Continued efforts to correct FRM have failed. It will come close when manually commanded, but then drift far away. (~30degrees off.) 0318 All readbacks ok. 0320 *HN WEA: Snowing. 0320 HN FRM locked at 2cm position. 0358-0506 *HN FRM rotation will not lock at 4cm. 15412 100 68 0358 All readbacks ok. 0438 All readbacks ok. 0506 HN FRM locks at 2cm. 0517-0616 *HN FRM rotation not locking at 4cm again. 15412 100 59 0616 HN FRM locked at 2cm. 0639 End. Downtime Summary: Total downtime : 330 min Percentage downtime of observing: 10.3% Average downtime per hour : 6.2 min Total scheduled observing time (# Antennas): 3210 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.