[daip] aips_gripe

[Eric Greisen]

Stephen White writes:
 > {12-SEP-2000 09:51:16}
 > {veil         UN-REGISTERED!!!!!!!}
 > {   69  31DEC99  SOL}
 > {Stephen White}
 > {Dept of Astronomy, University of Maryland}
 > {301 405 1547}
 > {Request for CALIB to be updated to handle MAXANT antennas throughout.
 >  I am analyzing Nobeyama radioheliograph data with 84 antennas in AIPS,
 >  and while MAXANT is set to 90 and CALIB works as long as I use
 >  defaults for antenna-related keywords, if I try to use DOFIT it no
 >  longer handles all the antennas: several variables are hardwired inside
 >  CALIB.FOR which don't allow it to handle MAXANT antennas: ANTUSE is set to
 >  50, XDOFIT is set to 30 (although GSOLV, which it feeds, is set to
 >  MAXANT+1), XANT and XGERR are set to 30.
 >  Also, it would be nice if DOFIT could be used to exclude antennas using
 >  negative values in the same way that ANTENNA does. Thanks.
 >   
 >   }
 > {CALIB doesn't quite handle MAXANT antennas.}
 > {white at astro.umd.edu}
 > { }

A question and 2 comments:

It has been assumed that, when the number of antennas gets large, the
users ability to set parameters specifically for each antenna gets
vanishingly small.  The dimensions in CALIB are set by the size of the
arrays in the POPS language.  ANTENNAS, BASELINE and ANTUSE are (50),
DOFIT, ANTWT, GAINERR are (30).  The question:
    Would changing DOFIT in APCAL, CALIB, FRING, KRING, and OMFIT
    to support the - convention be an adequate change?

Comment 1:
    If I change this, you will not benefit since your site does
    not run a midnight job.  You should see that this gets started
    if you want us to make improvements benefiting you (or to 
    benefit from the changes solicited by other users).

Comment 2:
    To change all of the adverbs to (90) requires editing and testing
the following tasks.  Do you think it would be worth it?
/AIPS/31DEC99/APL/PGM/CLIP.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/APL/PGM/NOTST/ACFIT.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/APL/PGM/NOTST/ANTAB.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/APL/PGM/NOTST/BLAVG.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/APL/PGM/NOTST/BPCOR.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/APL/PGM/NOTST/CLCAL.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/APL/PGM/NOTST/CLCOR.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/APL/PGM/NOTST/CLIPM.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/APL/PGM/NOTST/CLSMO.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/APL/PGM/NOTST/CSCOR.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/APL/PGM/NOTST/DTCHK.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/APL/PGM/NOTST/FARAD.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/APL/PGM/NOTST/GETJY.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/APL/PGM/NOTST/LISTR.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/APL/PGM/NOTST/PRTSD.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/APL/PGM/NOTST/QUACK.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/APL/PGM/NOTST/RESEQ.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/APL/PGM/NOTST/SBCOR.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/APL/PGM/NOTST/SHOUV.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/APL/PGM/NOTST/SNCOR.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/APL/PGM/NOTST/SNSMO.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/APL/PGM/NOTST/SOLCL.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/APL/PGM/NOTST/SPCAL.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/APL/PGM/NOTST/SWPOL.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/APL/PGM/NOTST/USUBA.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/APL/PGM/NOTST/UVCOP.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/APL/PGM/NOTST/UVCRS.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/APL/PGM/NOTST/UVFIT.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/APL/PGM/NOTST/UVFLG.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/APL/PGM/NOTST/UVHOL.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/APL/PGM/NOTST/UVIMG.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/APL/PGM/NOTST/UVPRM.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/APL/PGM/NOTST/UVPRT.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/APL/PGM/NOTST/WTMOD.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/APL/PGM/OOP/APGPS.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/APL/PGM/OOP/BLAPP.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/APL/PGM/OOP/COHER.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/APL/PGM/OOP/HF2SV.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/APL/PGM/OOP/OBTAB.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/APL/PGM/OOP/TECOR.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/Q/PGM/NOTST/BLCAL.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/Q/PGM/NOTST/BPASS.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/Q/PGM/NOTST/CALIB.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/Q/PGM/NOTST/CPASS.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/Q/PGM/NOTST/FRING.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/Q/PGM/NOTST/KRING.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/Q/PGM/NOTST/LPCAL.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/Q/PGM/NOTST/PCAL.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/Q/PGM/OOP/BLING.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/Q/PGM/OOP/EDITA.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/Q/PGM/OOP/EDITR.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/Q/PGM/OOP/FRCAL.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/Q/PGM/OOP/GPHAS.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/Q/PGM/OOP/OMFIT.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/Q/PGM/OOP/SCIMG.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/Q/PGM/OOP/SCMAP.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/Q/PGM/OOP/SNEDT.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/Y/PGM/NOTST/APCAL.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/Y/PGM/NOTST/BPLOT.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/Y/PGM/NOTST/ELINT.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/Y/PGM/NOTST/FGPLT.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/Y/PGM/NOTST/FRMAP.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/Y/PGM/NOTST/FRPLT.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/Y/PGM/NOTST/IBLED.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/Y/PGM/NOTST/POSSM.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/Y/PGM/NOTST/SNPLT.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/Y/PGM/NOTST/SPFLG.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/Y/PGM/NOTST/TVFLG.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/Y/PGM/NOTST/UVPLT.FOR
/AIPS/31DEC99/Y/PGM/NOTST/VPLOT.FOR


Eric Greisen