[daip] One cal tone only

Eric Greisen egreisen at nrao.edu
Thu Sep 27 10:42:58 EDT 2012


Andrzej Marecki wrote:
>> 13972.  September 26, 2012            PCCOR              Eric
>>         Changed message when the number of tones in less than two.
>>         For some reason it gave an elaborate message when
>>         2 * Nif * Npol > 16.  Dropped that in favor of the simple
>>         message.
> 
> OK, so now I get for BM341:
> 
> PCCOR1: Task PCCOR  (release of 31DEC12) begins
> PCCOR1: Writing to SN table   2
> PCCOR1: Stop because number of tones <2
> PCCOR1: Purports to die of UNNATURAL causes
> 
> It looks, therefore, that my PC table is useless and I have to align the IFs 
> "manually", i.e. using FRING, right?

That would be correct - it takes at least 2 tones to determine phases 
with the PC table.  I have asked our VLBI expert if she has any advice 
and if so she will forward it.

Eric Greisen




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