[daip] data not calibrating properly

[Eric Greisen]

Mike Bell writes:
 > hi there
 > 
 > here's a strange one for you.  i have aips installed on both my computer at
 > home and at work.  i've been working between the two installs for a few
 > months now with no issues.  the two computers are essentially the same.
 > they are both running ubuntu linux and they both have the 31dec07 install of
 > aips (installed from binaries).  the other day i decided to revisit a VLA
 > data set from a month back.  when i first calibrated the data a month or so
 > ago it worked just fine.  now when i try it at home, 3c286 doesn't calibrate
 > properly (i get something like 3 good solutions and 88 failed solutions).
 > this wasn't the case a month ago, however.  if i load the same data set at
 > work and calibrate it it works just fine.
 > 
 > so its seems pretty clear to me that something has gone wrong with my aips
 > install at home.  any idea how this would have happened and what i might do
 > to fix it?
 > 

Not with the information so far provided.  Are you running the MNJs at
home, at work?  Are you using the model for 3C286 or just the point
source assumption?  Have the data that now fail been on disk or are
they just loaded?  I am trying to ask what is different I guess.  The
above implies that nothing is different except the answers and the
computer which would imply a failure of the computer not of aips or
data or ?

Eric Greisen