VERY LONG BASELINE ARRAY OBSERVING LOG -------------------------------------- Project: BL149BM Observer: Lister, M. Project type: VLBA Obs filename: bl149bmcrd.* Date/Day: 2009JUN03/154 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. %SC rain gauge appears to be inoperative. WEAST 1638 Begin. 1638-2138 *BR vertex room HVAC not working, room gets too hot 24947 100 300 to safely operate equipment so BR not observing. 1708 %High wind gusts at OV. 1718-1720 *PT formatter HC2 FIFO error. Reset formatter. FMTR 100 2 1827-1834 *PT Mark5 unit appears to have crashed. REC 100 7 1834 *PT site tech cycled power on the Mark5, it's back up now. 1858-1909 *FD techs on antenna. CRYO 100 11 1927 MK reports clear skies. 2000 *Raining at LA. 2145 New Operator: Paul Padilla 2252 %OV WEA: Overcast, light drizzle, damp. 0000 Date is 2009JUN04/155. 0055 New Operator is Alan Kerr 0600 Operator is A. Sowinski. 1003-1026 *PT Mark5 had a problem, had to reboot. REC 100 23 1253 FD wea: clear, dry. 1324 SC wea: light scattered low clouds, dry. 1939 &BR site tech called out, site is about to run out of disk space. 1348 New operator is Jim Ogle. 1407 PT reports mostly cloudy skies. 1410 BR reports clear skies. 1433-1454 *PT Mark5 not communicating; hasn't crashed though. REC 100 21 There was a pack loaded in A which looked a bit glitchy, will have site tech pull that pack. The exact error message is "bank set get error". 1443 *PT pulling the pack didn't change anything. He's REC going to insert a different pack in A and reboot the unit. 1454 KP reports broken high clouds. 1504 OV reports mostly clear skies. 1504-1520 *SC ran out of disk space. HUERR 100 16 1636 End. Downtime Summary: Total downtime : 380 min Percentage downtime of observing: 2.6% Average downtime per hour : 1.6 min Total scheduled observing time (# Antennas): 14380 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.