[daip] Cal transfer & misc

[Athol Kemball]

> From julvesta at zia.aoc.NRAO.EDU Thu Jun 28 07:40 MDT 2001
> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 07:40:38 -0600
> From: Jim Ulvestad <julvesta at aoc.nrao.edu>
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> To: Athol Kemball <akemball at zia.aoc.NRAO.EDU>, daip at zia.aoc.NRAO.EDU
> Subject: Re: [daip] Cal transfer & misc
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> Athol Kemball wrote:
> > 
> > Some misc. defects (while I still remember):
> > 
> > 1) If the cal transfer writes multiple 1-D gain curves to
> >    the GC table, APCAL will reject all of them
> >    in GETRC (see NVALID > 1 check), leading to no cal.
> 
> Unless I'm misunderstanding what you're saying, this is
> why you have to run MERGECAL or VLBAMCAL, to merge the
> multiple gain entries into one.
> 

The test (particularly NVALID .GT. 1 .AND. WTYP1D) as
I originally conceived it is too stringent and could 
be relaxed to take the first or last GC row found, with 
a warning perhaps. 

Athol
(ex-author of APCAL!)