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    <p>Hi Michael,</p>
    <p>I believe this should work.  vex 1.5 will not be able to describe
      this properly so you would need to carefully craft the .v2d file
      to capture the setup.  vex 2.0 (support starting with 2.8.1)
      should handle this without special entries in .v2d.  To be safe I
      would suggest getting your hands on a sample dataset, make two
      copies of it, and try correlating one against the other to make
      sure the output makes sense.</p>
    <p>-Walter<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/16/24 06:50, Michael Dutka via
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      <div dir="ltr">Hi All,<br>
        We received a message about an upgrade to the digital backend
        for Russian geodetic VLBI stations and then describe the
        frequency setup like this:<br>
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          <li class="gmail-x_p1" style="margin:0in;font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">VDIF
              output format (instead of Mark5B+)</span></li>
          <li class="gmail-x_p1" style="margin:0in;font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Each
              frequency range has its own VDIF data stream, i.e. for S/X
              mode will be two VDIF streams (instead of one like
              Mark5B+)</span></li>
          <li class="gmail-x_p1" style="margin:0in;font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">The
              number of DBBCs used in each frequency range must be a
              multiple of 2, i.e. standard geodetic mode will be 8 USB
              channels in S and 8 USB or 16 channels (8 USB+ 2 LSB + 6
              any) in X (instead of 6 USB in S & 8 USB + 2 LSB in X)</span></li>
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        <div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#242424"><span style="font-size:14.6667px">The question is can DiFX
              handle this setup?  I'm pretty sure the answer is yes (for
              the 3rd item we might need to use dummy channels or some
              other sort of trick).  Does anyone see any glaring issues?</span></font></div>
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                  <div>Dr. Michael S. Dutka</div>
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