[daip] Aips problem

[Eric Greisen]

dbgob at brandeis.edu writes:
Please use daip at nrao.edu - I am sometimes on vacation and others cover
for me.

 > I know you have been working with Mike Bell on a lot of AIPS problems  
 > of late, but I think we got that all sorted out. I started to hammer  
 > through some archival data today and when I was done with my  
 > calibration in AIPS I opened up DIFMAP to do my cleaning. I was  
 > shocked to see that when I tried to do
 > 
 > 0>selfant VLA:N2,true
 > No telescope name matches 'VLA:N2'.
 > Error occured in command: selfant
 > 
 > I received an error. It took me some pecking around and the antennas  
 > are listed in DIFMAP as:
 > 
 > 1:VLA: N2  self-cal  status=correctable  weight=1
 > 
 > For example. There is now a space between VLA: and N2. I referenced  
 > old work I had and found that his was not the case for them. I have  
 > come to the conclusion that the latest version of AIPS (I just did a  
 > MNJ) is reading out the antennas in a funky manner.

Not funky just new.  We are building the EVLA and so we changed the
way stations are named.  They are "VLA: "xxx for old antennas and
"EVLA:"xxx for overhauled antennas.  I am suprised that a competent
pakage such as difmap should care about such things.

Eric Greisen