VERY LONG BASELINE ARRAY OBSERVING LOG -------------------------------------- Project: BB231A Observer: Braatz, J.A. Project type: VLBI Obs filename: bb231acrd.* Date/Day: 2006DEC23/357 Ants Scheduled: SC HN NL FD LA PT KP OV BR MK GB EB =UT-Time===Comment===============================================MF#===%AD==AMD= Operator is Heidi Gerhardt GPS delta, UT1-UTC, vclock check ok %BR cloudy possibly snow *HN freezing rain 0405 Begin 0405-1355 *FD AZ#2 bearing fault. Unoperable. 19601 100 590 0406-0537 SC AZ#1 armature/electronics CB fault 19623 0414-0541 *SC put into standby by ops, trying to clear ACU 19623 100 87 fault. Called out site tech, replaced 2 blown fuses. 0629 New operator: T. Perreault 0942-1004 *PT formatter errors FMTR 100 22 Header control module 2 error HC2 FIFO error FIFO 2 1PPS detected FIFO 1 1PPS detected FIFO 0 1PPS detected Cleared errors 1105-1107 *SC Mark5 communications lost error. 19622 100 2 Same as what was going on at PT. 1355 End. Downtime Summary: Total downtime : 701 min Percentage downtime of observing: 11.9% Average downtime per hour : 7.1 min Total scheduled observing time (# Antennas): 5900 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.