[daip] FITLD ANTNAME

Eric Greisen egreisen at nrao.edu
Fri Jan 27 10:47:53 EST 2012


R. Craig Walker wrote:
> I'm not sure if this is a bug or a feature, hence I'm not going through
> the help system first.  When I load one of the fits files from the VLBA
> archive with antname='vlba', ' ', or the explicit list, I still get only
> the 9 antennas that actually observed, numbered 1 to 9.  The file loaded
> is the pipelined file that has had the correlator files combined.  This is
> from the old correlator.  So it was written by AIPS and is probably normal
> FITS, not FITSIDI.  Is the antname scheme supposed to work for such files?
>  I have had it work for more recent files from DiFX.
> 
> I am running a one-week-old Mac installation of 31DEC2012 that had a
> do_daily run immediately after the installation.

The inputs and the help have been clarified about which (many) adverbs 
apply only to FITS-IDI.  ANTNAME is one of them - in fact I reordered 
the adverbs so that all adverbs after a certain point apply only to IDI.
With DiFX there is not need for the early VLBA pipeline

Eric Greisen




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