[daip] Re: tape reading problem -fixed!

[Hiroko Shinnaga]

Dear Eric Greisen,

  I could fix this problem!  Thanks for your attention.

 -Hiroko

Hiroko Shinnaga wrote:

> Dear Eric Greisen,
>
>   Thank you for your response.  Now I could get a setting for AIPS and
> I try to use AIPS to read the data.  I'm using 'fillm' to upload the data
>
> from a DAT tape.  Although I set the same paramemters which are
> successfully workin before, I cannot read any data from tape.  (The tape
> itself is communicating with AIPS. ) The parameters are as follows;
>
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> AIPS 1: FILLM     Task to read a VLA archive tape
> AIPS 1: Adverbs     Values                 Comments
> AIPS 1: ----------------------------------------------------------------
> AIPS 1: INTAPE        1                    Tape drive number
> AIPS 1: NFILES        0                    Number of files to advance
> AIPS 1: BAND       '    '                  Freq. band (4,P,L,C,X,U,K,Q)
> AIPS 1: QUAL         -1                    Source qualifier -1=>all
> AIPS 1: CALCODE    '    '                  Calibrator code
> AIPS 1: VLAOBS     '      '                VLA obs. pgm. name ('AZ99')
> AIPS 1: VLAMODE    '  '                    VLA obs. mode ('  '=any)
> AIPS 1: REFDATE    '        '              Reference date. 'yyyymmdd'
> AIPS 1: TIMERANG   *all 0                  Timerange selected
> AIPS 1: BCHAN         1                    First spectral channel
> AIPS 1: ECHAN         0                    Highest spectral channel
> AIPS 1: OUTNAME    '            '          Output UV file name (name)
> AIPS 1: OUTSEQ        0                    Output UV file name (seq. #)
> AIPS 1: OUTDISK       1                    Output UV file disk unit #.
> AIPS 1: DOUVCOMP      1                    1 (T) => compressed data
> AIPS 1: DOALL         1                    1 (T) => write all data.
> AIPS 1: DOCONCAT     -1                    1 (T) => append data to old
> AIPS 1:                                    files
> AIPS 1: NCOUNT        1                    Number of files to read
> AIPS 1: DOWEIGHT      1                    Use nominal sensitivity to
> AIPS 1:                                    scale weights?
> AIPS 1: DOACOR        1                    Load autocorrelation data?
> AIPS 1: CPARM      *all 0                  User options.
> AIPS 1:                                    1 => Avg. time (seconds)
> AIPS 1:                                    2 => bitmap    (see help)
> AIPS 1:                                         = 16 for planets & Sun
> AIPS 1:                                    3 => Max. OK IF status
> AIPS 1:                                         <=3 => 3
> AIPS 1:                                    4 => Control dropping of
> AIPS 1:                                         shadowed data
> AIPS 1:                                         < 0 => no shadow check
> AIPS 1:                                         0 => 25 m limit
> AIPS 1:                                         > 0 => Shadow limit is
> AIPS 1:                                               CPARM(4) in meters
> AIPS 1:                                    5 = channel code (see HELP)
> AIPS 1:                                    6 => Subarray number-see HELP
> AIPS 1:                                    7 => FQ entry tolerance (kHz)
> AIPS 1:                                         (see HELP)
> AIPS 1:                                    8 => CL table time incr. min
> AIPS 1:                                    9 => TY table time incr. min
> AIPS 1: ** press RETURN for more, enter Q or next line to quit print **
> #
> AIPS 1:                                    10=> Calibrator avg. time
> AIPS 1: DPARM      *all 0                  Selection by Frequency
> AIPS 1:                                    1+2 => A Frequency (Hz)
> AIPS 1:                                    3+4 => B Frequency (Hz)
> AIPS 1:                                    5+6 => C Frequency (Hz)
> AIPS 1:                                    7+8 => D Frequency (Hz)
> AIPS 1:                                    9 => tolerance for A&C
> AIPS 1:                                    10 => tolerance for B&D
> AIPS 1: BPARM      *all 0                  Opacity and Gain curve
> AIPS 1:                                    control (see help)
> AIPS 1: INFILE     '                                                '
> AIPS 1:                                    Antenna gains file
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>
> The message window says
>
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> toau.s> FILLM1: Task FILLM  (release of 31DEC02) begins
> toau.s> FILLM1: UV data will be written in compressed format
> toau.s> FILLM1: Shadow flag limit =  2.500E+01 meters.
> toau.s> FILLM1: No data found meeting selection criteria!
> toau.s> FILLM1: Read         0 visibilities from  1 files
> toau.s> FILLM1: Appears to have ended successfully
> toau.s> FILLM1: toau         31DEC02 TST: Cpu=       0.3  Real=      77
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>
> Although I remove restrictions like vlaobs name and refdate, no data
> is written to the disk.  I cannot tell where the problem is.  Could you
> kindly let me know how to fix this problem?  I'd like to greatly
> appreciate
> your quick response.  Thank you for your attention.
>
>  Hiroko Shinnaga