VERY LONG BASELINE ARRAY OBSERVING LOG -------------------------------------- Project: BL149AH Observer: Lister, M. Project type: VLBA Obs filename: bl149ahcrd.* Date/Day: 2007DEC28/362 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. %OV reports overcast skies. *Snowing at BR, 3" of snow over most of dish. System temperatures are elevated. 0047 Begin. 0437 *Raining at MK. 0515-0518 *Dumping snow at BR. WEA 100 3 0619 &PT tech called concerning very low vertex room temperatures, he's going to try and determine if there's any danger to the equipment. 0642 New Operator: Paul Padilla 0711 %SC Raining 0912-0916 *BR dumping snow. WEA 100 4 1023-1025 *SC autostowed, power glitch? COM 100 2 1036 *Precipitation at NL 1104-1105 *NL Communications lost with Mark5 temporarily REC 100 1 1147-1222 *KP Communications lost with Mark5 REC 100 35 Attempted VME reboot: unsuccessful. Attempted Mark5 reboot: unsuccessful. Attempted Chatterbox reset: successful. 1201-1204 *SC autostowed. COM 100 3 1204-1206 *PT autostowed. COM 100 2 1404 %NL WEA: 2-3" fresh snow on dish, still snowing. 1441-1443 *KP autostowed. COM 100 2 1449 New operator is Betty Ragan. 1452-1453 *BR dumping snow. 1516 %HN tsys are high. Weather report shows clouds, with precipitation expected later in the day. 1655-2139 *PT removed from observation so the site tech can 21960 100 284 work on the heating in the vertex room. 1841 %BR has at least 3" of snow on 90% of the dish. Elevation motor currents are fairly high. 1949 %MK reports light rain and low clouds moving over the summit area. 2103 KP reports clear, dry weather. 2111 %NL reports 1-2" of snow over about 70% of the dish. 2252 New operator is Jim Ogle. 2302 %OV reports overcats skies. 0000 Date is 2007DEC29/363. 0048 End. Downtime Summary: Total downtime : 336 min Percentage downtime of observing: 2.3% Average downtime per hour : 1.4 min Total scheduled observing time (# Antennas): 14410 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.