[daip] WX/vlbacala trouble.

[Amy Mioduszewski]

I downloaded your data and ran VLBACALA with no problem.  How did you process 
the data before VLBACALA, I wonder if it is a (not WX) table issue.  Did you run 
VLBALOAD, VLBAMCAL or VLBAFIX?  These all merge the calibration tables.

Amy

Craig Walker wrote:
> The observation is BW092A from Jan 19, 2009.  There are 3 files.  This 
> one is the 43 GHz, non-geo file (the big one, naturally).
> 
> Just minutes ago, I did a do_daily.localhost followed by tget apcal.  I 
> got the same error.  I then plotted the weather information with WETHR 
> which worked fine.
> 
> You can delete the SN and CL tables, but ACCOR does take a while to run 
> plus there is always the risk of doing the wrong thing to SN and CL 
> tables - and the repeat clutters the history.  Because you can do that, 
> this is not high priority.  The other alternative is TGET APCAL; 
> <changes>; GO APCAL; but then you have to figure out everything for 
> CLCAL which always takes me some time.
> 
> I have a VLBACALB that allows the use of INFILE.  I may be resorting to 
> that shortly.  I already ran VLOG because of the previously reported 
> flag issue (which was my misunderstanding of the consequences of having 
> the second band).  I may have to iterate with HN (snow in antenna) which 
> is another reason why it is not uncommon to have to rerun APCAL.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Craig
> 
> 
> 
> Amy Mioduszewski wrote:
>> What is your experiment name and date and I will download it.
>>
>> Why can't you jsut delete the SN and CL table that ACCOR produces.
>>
>> Amy
>>
>> R. Craig Walker wrote:
>>> I tried to run vlbacala solving for opacity.  Here are the inputs with
>>> expname and expdisk locally defined and set to the appropriate values.
>>>
>>> default vlbacala
>>>   inn=expname; incl='multi'; inseq=1; indisk=expdisk
>>>   dofit=1
>>> vlbacala
>>>
>>>  I got the following messages from APCAL before death:
>>>
>>> localh> APCAL1: TABIO: BAD LRNO =       587 LIMIT       585
>>> localh> APCAL1: TABWX: ERROR   2 FROM TABIO OPCODE = READ
>>> localh> APCAL1: REAWX: ERROR  2 SOMETHING WRONG WITH WX TABLE
>>> localh> APCAL1: TXTWX: ERR  2 OPENING WX TABLE   1
>>>
>>> The WX table has 585 rows according to PRTAB and the data look ok 
>>> although
>>> the INTERVAL is zero.  Why does it seem to be looking beyond the end?
>>>
>>> Note that I had WX trouble processing other data sets from a year ago,
>>> although the messages were somewhat different.
>>>
>>> The data are on my laptop so we'll have to jump through some hoops to 
>>> give
>>> it to you if that is needed.
>>>
>>> My last update was Feb 10 when I installed Dec09 with Amy's help.  I can
>>> try a midnight job tomorrow and do again.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, as usual, vlbacala fails on the APCAL, not the ACCOR so
>>> redos are a bit tricky.  Could we have a version of VLBACALA that skips
>>> the ACCOR?  I seem to run into this issue a lot because of the fragility
>>> of APCAL in the opacity solving mode.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Craig
>>>
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