[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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