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OK, thanks.<br>
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I haven't participated in one of these before and so I don't know the
best way to proceed. I realize that no one might react to my previous
e-mail and you wouldn't know if that indicated agreement, disagreement
or disinterest. Would it be more helpful if I put my ideas in a
declarative form? Then, if there is no reaction, agreement can be
assumed. Here's an example:<br>
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The TELESCOP keyword is required in the extension header and its
associated value will be a unique string which identifies the antenna
or antenna array and can be used as a key to a database of antenna
parameters. NRAO will maintain a registry for TELESCOP keyword values.<br>
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Regards<br>
<br>
Tom<br>
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William Pence wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Tom Kuiper wrote:
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<pre wrap="">William Pence wrote:
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<pre wrap="">This is to announce the start of the Public Comment Period on the
SDFITS binary table convention that is used for interchange of single
disk data in radio astronomy...
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<pre wrap="">Bill, when does this Public Comment Period end? I'm now working through
the process of writing the results of a particular series of
observations into SDFITS. It'll be the first step in trying to get all
the DSN spectroscopic runs to produce compatible SDFITS files. There
will be issues along the way. I expect it'll take a few months.
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The comment period lasts at least 30 days, but there is no upper time
limit. If there is a reasonable prospect that there will be continuing
developments regarding a particular convention, then it can remain open
for whatever time it takes to reach a conclusion.
Bill
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