[daip] dbcon question

Eric Greisen egreisen at cv3.cv.nrao.edu
Fri Feb 21 16:08:12 EST 2003


Lawrence Rudnick writes:
 > re: history of data sets
 > 
 > data were taken on 13 and 17 of February (just now).
 > data set one was the one i sent messages to you about
 > earlier, that was interrupted by a mod-comp crash while
 > on-line fillm was running.  second set ran without
 > incident.
 > 
 > the first set had more than one entry for some times
 > around the time of the modcomp crash, so needless to
 > say, many programs were confused by this.  i chopped
 > out about an hour around this time and made two
 > apparently clean pieces, before and after the crash,
 > which i then dbcon'd back together before any processing.
 > 
 > both are P band, spectral line, 31 original channels.
 > bp calibrated, calib'd for gain and phase, flgit'd and
 > avspc'd.  three calibrator sources, and 22 separate source
 > fields
 > 
 > ah, just thought of a difference.  the first data set
 > was unhappy when i dbcon'd it back together, which i
 > think i tracked down to a cl table that was confused.
 > so i deleted CL 1  for the two pieces of data set one,
 >   and let INDXR
 > recreate it after dbcon.
 > for data set two, it kept its original CL 1 table.
 > 
 > lr
 > 
 > 
That is the problem - INDXR does different from FILLM.
You need to delete all CL tables and rerun INDXR, which you would
probably have to do anyway.  You will have lost all antenna gain and
atmospheric calibration info (unless the WX tables are okay).

ERic



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