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<p>Hi Stuart,</p>
<p>in case of VDIF files you need to run</p>
<p>vsum -s /raid0/etransfer/wa/* > filelist.wa (no need to specify the format)</p>
<p>Cheers,</p>
<p>Simone</p>
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<p>Am 2020-02-27 04:05, schrieb Stuart Weston via Difx-users:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Well two of you asked for updates <span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI Emoji',sans-serif;"> 😊</span> Progress so far ...<!-- o ignored --></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">directory2filelist:<!-- o ignored --></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">First issue, directory2filelist doesn't like VDIF files (Which I have for Wa and Ti) :<!-- o ignored --></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">oper@ww-flexbuf-01 DiFX-2.5.2 vygr2> directory2filelist /raid0/etransfer/wa/vygr2_wa_no0108 VDIF_8000-128-2-2<!-- o ignored --></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">VDIF Warning: Changing frameheadersize from 32 to 16<!-- o ignored --></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">VDIF Warning: Changing databytesperpacket from 8000 to 124473216<!-- o ignored --></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It is even more unhappy with "vbs_fs" for merging jive5ab vdif chunks into one logical file at the fuse mount point (PS: I now use "vbs_fs" for DSPSR with Williem for VDIF Single Dish pulsar data).<!-- o ignored --></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">v2d :<!-- o ignored --></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Also for v2d ephemFile has to be either tle (Two-Line elements) or bsp (which I assume means BaryCenter on 399 Earth, our observing platform). Now NASA HORIZONS doesn't seem to produce a valid file acceptable to SPICE. So goto NASA NAIF which has some "old" archived bsp files but nothing current.<!-- o ignored --></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I was trying to use the HORIZONS ID "Voyager_2" , that didn't work :<!-- o ignored --></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">Toolkit version: N0066<!-- o ignored --></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">SPICE(IDCODENOTFOUND) --<!-- o ignored --></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">The target, 'Voyager_2', is not a recognized name for an ephemeris object. The<!-- o ignored --></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">cause of this problem may be that you need an updated version of the SPICE<!-- o ignored --></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">Toolkit. Alternatively you may call SPKEZ directly if you know the SPICE ID<!-- o ignored --></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">codes for both 'Voyager_2' and '399'<!-- o ignored --></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">A traceback follows. The name of the highest level module is first.<!-- o ignored --></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">spkezr_c --> SPKEZR<!-- o ignored --></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">Oh, by the way: The SPICELIB error handling actions are USER-TAILORABLE. You<!-- o ignored --></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">can choose whether the Toolkit aborts or continues when errors occur, which<!-- o ignored --></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">error messages to output, and where to send the output. Please read the ERROR<!-- o ignored --></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">"Required Reading" file, or see the routines ERRACT, ERRDEV, and ERRPRT.<!-- o ignored --></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Anyway under the NAIF archive there is a "voyager_2.ST+1992_m05208u.merged.bsp" which goes to "2021 JAN05". Now you need NAIF ID 3 for the Earth Barycenter (our observation platform) and NAIF ID -32 for Voyager 2<!-- o ignored --></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">SOURCE VGR2 {<!-- o ignored --></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">ephemObject = -32<!-- o ignored --></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">ephemFile = voyager_2.ST+1992_m05208u.merged.bsp<!-- o ignored --></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">}<!-- o ignored --></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Now v2d works, there are some warnings about stop/start times for the vdif files. <!-- o ignored --></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">oper@ww-flexbuf-01 DiFX-2.5.2 vygr2> vex2difx --force vygr2.v2d<!-- o ignored --></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">Warning: Filelist file vygr_atca.filelist was a listing with no start/stop times.<!-- o ignored --></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">Note: Future versions of vex2difx may stop allowing file lists without start/stop times. Filelists for VDIF and Mark5B files with start/stop times can be generated with "vsum -s" and "m5bsum -s" respectively. These times allow vex2difx to properly assign data to jobs and is especially important in cases where multiple jobs are generated per project.<!-- o ignored --></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">Warning: Filelist file vygr_dss.filelist was a listing with no start/stop times.<!-- o ignored --></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">Warning: Filelist file vygr_wa.filelist was a listing with no start/stop times.<!-- o ignored --></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">start date: 2020y015d08h00m00s<!-- o ignored --></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">stop date: 2020y015d12h00m00s<!-- o ignored --></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">Warning: no clock values for antenna AT .<!-- o ignored --></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">Warning: no clock values for antenna WA .<!-- o ignored --></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">Warning: no clock values for antenna TI .<!-- o ignored --></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">Note: Proceeding even though there were 3 warnings.<!-- o ignored --></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">Warning: Job vygr2 1: no clock offsets being applied to antenna AT<!-- o ignored --></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"> Unless this is intentional, your results will suffer!<!-- o ignored --></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">Warning: Job vygr2 1: no clock offsets being applied to antenna TI<!-- o ignored --></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"> Unless this is intentional, your results will suffer!<!-- o ignored --></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">Warning: Job vygr2 1: no clock offsets being applied to antenna WA<!-- o ignored --></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"> Unless this is intentional, your results will suffer!<!-- o ignored --></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">Warning: Job vygr2 2: no clock offsets being applied to antenna AT<!-- o ignored --></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"> Unless this is intentional, your results will suffer!<!-- o ignored --></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">Warning: Job vygr2 2: no clock offsets being applied to antenna TI<!-- o ignored --></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"> Unless this is intentional, your results will suffer!<!-- o ignored --></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">Warning: Job vygr2 2: no clock offsets being applied to antenna WA<!-- o ignored --></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"> Unless this is intentional, your results will suffer!<!-- o ignored --></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">2 job(s) created.<!-- o ignored --></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I'll come back to the <strong>clock offsets</strong> next as I do have those to add, I'll append a $CLOCK section shortly.<!-- o ignored --></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am just working my way through step by step, where each step will have several iterations to sort things out.<!-- o ignored --></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">Mobile: 021 713062<br /> <br /> Skype: stuart.d.weston<br /> Email: stuart.weston@aut.ac.nz<br /> <br /> http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/Stuart.Weston/index.html<br /> <br /> Software Engineer<br /> Institute for Radio Astronomy & Space Research (IRASR)<br /> School of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences<br /> Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies<br /> Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand.<br /> <br /> http://www.irasr.aut.ac.nz/<!-- o ignored --></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">From:</span></strong><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;"> Stuart Weston <br /> <strong>Sent:</strong> Thursday, 27 February 2020 1:51 PM<br /> <strong>To:</strong> difx-users@listmgr.nrao.edu<br /> <strong>Cc:</strong> Oleg Titov <Oleg.Titov@ga.gov.au><br /> <strong>Subject:</strong> Question - correlate near field sources ie Spacecraft<!-- o ignored --></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have some VLBI on Voyager to correlate.<!-- o ignored --></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">So had a read of : <!-- o ignored --></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.atnf.csiro.au/vlbi/dokuwiki/doku.php/difx/spacecraft">https://www.atnf.csiro.au/vlbi/dokuwiki/doku.php/difx/spacecraft</a><!-- o ignored --></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have setup SPICE <!-- o ignored --></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Anyone done this before and any tip's, help or suggestions ?<!-- o ignored --></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The ephemFile as that as obtained say from <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons.cgi"> https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons.cgi</a> ?<!-- o ignored --></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">Mobile: 021 713062<br /> <br /> Skype: stuart.d.weston<br /> Email: <a href="mailto:stuart.weston@aut.ac.nz">stuart.weston@aut.ac.nz</a><br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/Stuart.Weston/index.html">http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/Stuart.Weston/index.html</a><br /> <br /> Software Engineer<br /> Institute for Radio Astronomy & Space Research (IRASR)<br /> School of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences<br /> Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies<br /> Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand.<br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.irasr.aut.ac.nz/">http://www.irasr.aut.ac.nz/</a><!-- o ignored --></span></p>
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