[daip] points plotted by SNPLT
Eric Greisen
egreisen at cv3.cv.nrao.edu
Sat Jul 6 19:15:23 EDT 2002
Lorant Sjouwerman, NRAO writes:
> DearAIP,
>
> I've had an observing run of 8 hours, and made a CL-table with an interval
> of 3 seconds.
>
> In SNPLT, only just over 3 hours, 3615 points per antenna/IF/Pol, are
> plotted on the TV, which caused a fringe on my scalp.
>
> The CL-data is there as seen with LISTR, PRTAB and also seen with XINC>>1
> in SNPLT, so apparently there is a maximum number (=3615) it can plot.
>
> Regardless whether it is useful to look at more than 3615 points per
> baseline (I think it is in some cases), shouldn't it produce a warning if
> the points asked to be plotted exceed 3615 - as it does when points fall
> outside the specified PIXRANGE - and suggest to specify XINC or TIMERANGE?
>
> And does this 3615 need an update (to eg 14400, which is 12 hours of 3
> seconds)?
>
The array was 512*1024 words long - so this was reduced to N per IF
per parameter per antenna. Increased the buffer by a factor of 6.
Eric Greisen
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