[daip] antenna table

[Kalenskii Sergei]

Dear colleagues,

thank you very much for your response.

The answers on your questions are as follows:

The inputs for OBTAB:

AIPS 1: OBTAB     Task to calculate various orbital information
AIPS 1: Adverbs     Values                 Comments
AIPS 1: ----------------------------------------------------------------
AIPS 1: INNAME     'RE02F'                 Input UV file name (name)
AIPS 1: INCLASS    'UVDATA'                Input UV file name (class)
AIPS 1: INSEQ         1                    Input UV file name (seq. #)
AIPS 1: INDISK        1                    Input UV file disk unit #
AIPS 1: INVERS        1                    Input OB table version
AIPS 1:                                    0 => last
AIPS 1: SUBARRAY      0                    Subarray number; 0 => 1
AIPS 1: ANTENNAS   *all 0                  List of antenna to update
AIPS 1:                                     All 0 => update all
AIPS 1:                                     antennae with mount type
AIPS 1:                                     set to orbiting
AIPS 1: APARM      *all 0                  Orbital parameters
AIPS 1:                                     1: semi-major axis in meters
AIPS 1:                                     2: eccentricity
AIPS 1:                                     3: inclination (deg)
AIPS 1:                                     4: RA of ascending node
AIPS 1:                                        (deg)
AIPS 1:                                     5: argument of perigee (deg)
AIPS 1

and AIPS says

   1    5   19-SEP-2014  19:26:41     OBTAB     Task OBTAB  (release of 31DEC13) begins
   1    2   19-SEP-2014  19:26:41     AIPS      Resumes
   1    6   19-SEP-2014  19:26:41     OBTAB     TABINI: KEY COUNTS      1     51 OR COLS      8      7 DON'T MATCH
   1    6   19-SEP-2014  19:26:41     OBTAB     OBINI: ERROR   1 FROM TABINI OPCODE = WRIT
   1    7   19-SEP-2014  19:26:41     OBTAB     OBINI: ERROR INITIALIZING SPACECRAFT ORBIT TABLE FOR WRIT
   1    7   19-SEP-2014  19:26:41     OBTAB     PROBLEM WITH TABLE OBJECT ORBTA
   1    9   19-SEP-2014  19:26:41     OBTAB     UPDOTB: FAILED TO OPEN OB TABLE (ERROR   1)
   1    9   19-SEP-2014  19:26:41     OBTAB     FAILED TO UPDATE ORBIT TABLE
   1    3   19-SEP-2014  19:26:41     OBTAB     Purports to die of UNNATURAL causes
   
The initial AN table appeared when I loaded my data (correlated by DIFX) with FITLD.

Thank you in advance

Sergei



Thank you for the PRTAB display in particular.  That shows that
OBTAB failed to add the orbit parameters.  Can you send us the
input adverbs you used for OBTAB and what it said when you ran it.

Anyway it is clear now that FRMAP can not work for the orbiting case if
the AN table is not prepared correctly including NMTSTA.EQ.2 for the
orbiting antenna.

Where did you picked up the initial AN table from?

LK