[daip] FILLM question

[Gustaaf Van Moorsel]

I wouldn't spend time on this right now - I just heard that IDCAF
had problems at the time dealing with the short integration time
and multiple subarrays.

Gustaaf

Gustaaf Van Moorsel wrote:
> I am running online FILLM on fast switching data taken an hour or so
> ago, and selected the data on time range only:
>
> AIPS 1: Found in Version=ONLINE
> AIPS 1: FILLM     Task to read a VLA archive tape
> AIPS 1: Adverbs     Values                 Comments
> AIPS 1: ----------------------------------------------------------------
> AIPS 1: INTAPE        1                    Tape drive number
> AIPS 1: INFILE     *all ' '                Non-blank: disk file name
> AIPS 1: NFILES        0                    Number of files to advance
> AIPS 1:                                    Also applies to ON-LINE!
> AIPS 1: BAND       ' '                     Freq. band:
> AIPS 1:                                      (4,P,L,S,C,X,U,K,A,Q)
> AIPS 1: QUAL         -1                    Source qualifier -1=>all
> AIPS 1: CALCODE    ' '                     Calibrator code
> AIPS 1: VLAOBS     ' '                     VLA obs. pgm. name ('AZ99')
> AIPS 1: VLAMODE    ' '                     VLA obs. mode ('  '=any)
> AIPS 1: REFDATE    ' '                     Reference date. 'yyyymmdd'
> AIPS 1: TIMERANG      0          18        Timerange selected
> AIPS 1:              34           0           0          19
> AIPS 1:              30           0
>
> I get many, many error messages of the type:
>
> oxus  > FILLM1: Found 02175+73495     :    0 50.000 MHz at IAT   0/ 
> 19:29:58.5
> oxus  > FILLM1: PROGRAM ID HAS CHANGED FROM 'FS01  ' TO 'SYSSTA'
> oxus  > FILLM1: PROGRAM ID HAS CHANGED FROM 'SYSSTA' TO 'FS01  '
> oxus  > FILLM1: Ref. date = 20080902 A-C =  8.435100 B-D =  8.485100 GHz
> oxus  > FILLM1: Appending new data to: 20080902    .X BAND.  2 disk  1
>
> and the resulting file's NX table appears to be corrupted: after
> scan 20 or so it creates a scan every 0.4 sec integration:
>
>  17 02175+73495     : 0000  A        1  0/18:42:53 -   0/18:43:12     
> 1   94021     100160
>  18 01575+74427     : 0000  A        1  0/18:43:13 -   0/18:43:13     
> 1  100161     100391
>  19 01575+74427     : 0000  A        1  0/18:43:21 -   0/18:43:32     
> 1  100392     105784
>  20 02175+73495     : 0000  A        1  0/18:43:33 -   0/18:43:33     
> 1  105785     105995
>  21 02175+73495     : 0000  A        1  0/18:43:41 -   0/18:43:52     
> 1  105996     110850
>  22 01575+74427     : 0000  A        1  0/18:43:53 -   0/18:44:12     
> 1  110851     115869
>  23 02175+73495     : 0000  A        1  0/18:44:13 -   0/18:44:13     
> 1  115870     116065
>  24 02175+73495     : 0000  A        1  0/18:44:21 -   0/18:44:21     
> 1  116066     116066
>  25 02175+73495     : 0000  A        1  0/18:44:21 -   0/18:44:21     
> 1  116067     116069
>  26 02175+73495     : 0000  A        1  0/18:44:21 -   0/18:44:21     
> 1  116070     116189
>
> Deleting the NX file and running INDXR fixes that.
>
> Gustaaf
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