[daip] antenna table

[Eric Greisen]

On 09/19/2014 09:42 AM, Kalenskii Sergei wrote:
> 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 message above states that your OB (orbit) table has 7 columns while 
8 are expected.  So can you run PRTAB on the OB table and send us the 
output?  Also, did you generate the OB table or did it also come from DiFX?

Eric Greisen