[daip] Number of Tsys records per station acceptable for ANTAB

[Eric Greisen]

Andrzej Marecki wrote:
> Hi Eric,
> 
> I heard once that ANTAB can handle a maximum of 8000 Tsys records per IF per 
> station. Is that true?
> 
> Why I'm asking? Because ANTAB refuses to accept some 6000 records for one of 
> the stations in my ANTAB input file. (This is EVN data, so there is no 
> "calibration transfer" and ANTAB must be used.) In ANTAB "activity summary" 
> appearing in MSGsrv window, the number of records read for that station is 
> zero. Given that 6000 records seemed rather high to me, I fixed the problem 
> in a quick and dirty manner, namely I dropped every 2nd record in the part 
> of the input file pertinent to that station. This move solved the problem. 
> However, clearly, such a trick is not elegant, is it.
> 
> Is this a bug/feature of ANTAB or should I do something about my input file 
> anyway?
> 
> Thanks for your help in advance.
> 
> --
> Andrzej
> 
I agree that it should not be dying or omitting or ??

The array is limited to 100000 for all Tsys but I do not know how many 
values are needed per Tsys - that gets decoded from the file.  I have 
changed the limit to 5000000.  That should be available after tonight's 
MNJ (in 31DEC10).

Cheers,

Eric Greisen

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