VERY LONG BASELINE ARRAY OBSERVING LOG -------------------------------------- Project: BU030B Observer: J. Ulvestad Project type: VLBA Obs filename: bu030crd.* Date/Day: 2005FEB27/058 Ants Scheduled: SC HN NL FD LA PT KP OV BR MK Y GB =UT-Time===Comment===============================================MF#===%AD==AMD= Operator is Paul Dyer. LA is writing Mark V disc pack NRAO-008 in bank B. KP is writing Mark V disc pack NRAO-017 in Bank A. VCLOCK, GPS Delta, and UT1-UTC check ok. 0213 Begin at Y. 0230 Begin at GB and all VLBA sites except BR and MK. 0240 New operator is Jim Ogle. 0230-0244 *Y not writing data to tape. A tape was prepassing SW 100 14 on drive #1 and for some reason the system did not start writing on drive #2, it looks like it wanted to write to the prepassing drive. 0242 *Rebooted Y VME to see if that would clear up the problem. After the reboot it started writing to the tape on drive #1 so I sent a tape terminate command to force it to switch over to drive #2. 0302 Begin at BR. 0322 Readbacks okay. 0323 Begin at MK. 0330 %MK dew point reading higher than air temperature. 15762 Pointing equation may be affected. 0336 Readbacks okay. 0549 Readbacks okay. 0603 *OV bad readbacks on tracks 2 and 4, drive #1. Other sites okay. 0630 End at GB and VLBA sites. 0659 End at Y. 0659 End. Downtime Summary: Total downtime : 14 min Percentage downtime of observing: 0.4% Average downtime per hour : 0.3 min Total scheduled observing time (# Antennas): 3146 min (11) 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.