[daip] creating an antenna table from scratch?

[Eric Greisen]

Andrew Baker writes:

 > I have data from a mm array that I can map in IMAGR, but since they don't 
 > have an antenna table I can't make full use of e.g., TVFLG to inspect the 
 > data.  Is there a way within AIPS to add an antenna table from scratch in 
 > order to get around this?

There is no paraform task designed to do this.  My suggestion - TACOP a
VLBA or VLA AN file to your data set.  You could change the station
names and other things with verbs PUTTHEAD and TABPUT after examining
the AN file with PRTAB.  Note that the AN file is mostly used to
provide station names and maximum antenna numbers for tasks like TVFLG
to display.  Do not use UVFIX unless you have a really correct AN
table.  I think no other task makes really serious use of the AN file
contents (save polarization calibration).

Eric Greisen