VERY LONG BASELINE ARRAY OBSERVING LOG -------------------------------------- Project: BI030B Observer: Imai, H. Project type: VLBA Obs filename: bi030bcrd.* Date/Day: 2004DEC04/339 Ants Scheduled: SC HN NL FD LA PT KP OV BR MK =UT-Time===Comment===============================================MF#===%AD==AMD= 1617 Begin file VCLOCK check ok. SC at -0.109 UT1-UTC check ok. (-0.49) GPS delta < 10 us LA recording Mark 5 bank A disc VSN NRAO-024 PT recording Mark 5 bank A disc VSN NRAO-061 KP recording Mark 5 bank B disc VSN NRAO-062 Operator: T. Perreault 1617 Site weather (via webcam) SC, HN, OV, MK : clear NL: partly cloudy FD, PT, BR: overcast KP : raining 1617 %KP wea: raining, seeing elevated system temperatures 1703 Readback check ok 1742 %BR wea: raining, seeing elevated system temperatures 1749 Readback check ok 1835 Readback check ok 1921 Readback check ok 2007 Readback check ok 2053 Readback check ok 2115 %BR wea: overcast, light wet snow: 1" on ground, about 1/2" on 20% of the dish. 2139 Readback check ok 2225 BR bad readback drive 1 track 7; all other sites ok 2310 Readback check ok 2340 BR wea: site tech reports that there is at least 1" of wet snow covering the entire dish. Suggests going into snow avoidance once this file is over. 2348 Contacted VLBA operations supervisor to inform about weather conditions at BR. Running snow dump at the site and then going into avoidsnow routine. Removing BR from current observing and upcoming pointing run. 2348-0218 *BR removed from observing due to current weather WEA 100 150 conditions: snowing, 1" of snow covering 100% of the dish. Will dump the snow and go into snow avoidance routine. 2356 Readback check ok 0000 Date is 2004DEC05/340. 0007 Readback check ok 0035 Readback check ok 0042 Readback check ok 0055 SC,HN readback check ok 0154 SC observing ends 0218 End. Downtime Summary: Total downtime : 150 min Percentage downtime of observing: 2.5% Average downtime per hour : 1.5 min Total scheduled observing time (# Antennas): 6010 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.