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[Leonia Kogan]

Hi,

If your data are from VLA, you should use the AIPS task FILLM (not uvlod)

Leonia
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Hi,

having problem reading in a vla data file and am told you could help as I 
am the only aips user (and a novice at that) here.  am reading it in from 
disk using uvlod where the data is in a locally defined directory

inputs and result are
 
AIPS 1: INTAPE        1                    Input tape drive # (0 => 1)
AIPS 1: NFILES        0                    # of files to advance on tape
AIPS 1: INFILE     'DATA:AE146.020502.C    Disk file name (FITS only)
AIPS 1:               '
AIPS 1: OUTNAME    'TEST        '          File name (name)
AIPS 1: OUTCLASS   '      '                File name (class)
AIPS 1: OUTSEQ        0                    File name (seq. #)
AIPS 1: OUTDISK       1                    Disk drive # (0 => any)
AIPS 1: OPTYPE     '    '                  Type of data to load,
AIPS 1: NCOUNT        0                    Number of files to load.
AIPS 1: DOTABLE       1                    True (1.0) means load tables
AIPS 1: DOUVCOMP      1                    >0 => compressed data (FITS)
AIPS 1: DOCONCAT     -1                    >0 -> if VLBA or uv table,
AIPS 1: CLINT         0                    CL entry interval (min)
AIPS 1: SOURCES    *all ' '                Source list to accept.
AIPS 1: QUAL         -1                    Source qualifier -1=>all
AIPS 1: TIMERANG   *all 0                  Timerange selected
AIPS 1: BCHAN         1                    Lowest spectral channel
AIPS 1: ECHAN         0                    Highest spectral channel
AIPS 1: BIF           0                    Lowest IF number 0=>1
AIPS 1: EIF           0                    Highest IF number 0=>all
AIPS 1: DIGICOR       1                    Controls the application of
AIPS 1: DELCORR       1                    If >= 0 enable the second
AIPS 1: SELBAND      -1                    Bandwidth to select (kHz)
AIPS 1: SELFREQ      -1                    Frequency to select (MHz).
AIPS 1: FQTOL        -1                    Frequency tolerance assigned
AIPS 1: WTTHRESH      0                    Flagging threshold based on
AIPS 1: OPCODE     '    '                  Specify if wish to keep VT
AIPS 1: NPIECE        0                    Maximum uv table piece to
AIPS 1:                                    load (ignored for tape unless
AIPS 1:                                    NCOUNT = 1)
>go
ERROR  3 ON UNIT TTDEV01         , GETTING HOST/SERVICE BY NAME
 ZMSGOP: ZTTOPN RETURNS ERROR =   1 FOR LUN =   6
FITLD1: Found MULTI    observed on 02-MAY-2002
FITLD1: Create TEST        .C BAND.   2 (UV)  on disk  1  cno    2
FITLD1: TAPIO: RECORD LENGTH    685 INCONSISTENT WITH BLOCK SIZE  2880
FITLD1: ERROR READING FITS TABLE
FITLD1: ERROR      1 RETURNED FROM FITRXU
FITLD1: WARNING:    453 unknown records skipped while reading tape
FITLD1: Purports to die of UNNATURAL causes
FITLD1: dakika       31DEC01 TST: Cpu=       1.7  Real=       3
AIPS 1: Resumes

the data is actually there and has a header I can read, what I would like
to know is if this error message means something important?

thanks

katrina

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Dr Katrina Exter
APS Division, Dept. Pure and Applied Physics
Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, BT7 1NN, UK
k.exter at qub.ac.uk  +44-(0)28-90273708


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