[daip] question on FILLM from disk

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>From lmatthew at cfa.harvard.edu Fri Jul  2 13:19 MDT 2004
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 15:19:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Lynn D. Matthews" <lmatthew at cfa.harvard.edu>
To: analysts at zia.aoc.nrao.edu
Subject: question on FILLM from disk
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Hi,

I have just been attempting to read into AIPS some of my data for project
AK578, using FILLM from the disk archive files I retrieved from the web,
and have encountered a problem.

When I attempt to read in file 2004-05/vla2004-05-14.dat, FILLM always
splits it into two parts, 20040514.LINE.1 and 20040514.LINE.2, with the
split occurring where LST=0h is passed, and there is also a change in
frequency. My observations went SOURCE1--SOURCE2--SOURCE1, and the break
is occurring after SOURCE2, causing the two sets of observations of
SOURCE1 to be separated.  File 2004-05/vla2004-05-16.dat covers the
identical LST range and sources, but this problem does not occur.

If there an obvious reason for this difference? I've tried various things
to override this in FILLM without success.  As an alternative, can I
safely concatonate the two raw files with DBCON?

Thanks,

Lynn Matthews


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