[evla-sw-discuss] Filehost replacement date proposal (January 1st noon - 4pm)

[Ken Sowinski]

On Mon, 29 Nov 2010, Joseph P. McMullin wrote:

> Agreed the 1st seems attractive; the only issue is perhaps whether it is 
> worthwhile to have someone at the site (e.g., an operator) a bit earlier 
> in the process in case there's a snag that requires local hands. 
> Gene/Peggy - would this be hard/prohibitive? Alternatively, we can just 
> say that we're not expecting to get started with science observations 
> until 1800 at the earliest (=2 hours after we have operator support on 
> site; assumes 1 hour of potential interaction with James' group and then 
> at least another hour for testing/setup for science observing).

I would consider 2 hours to be a minimum.  It might well take
longer than that.  Even in the "old days" we allowed three hours
to get organized after the New Year shutdown.

Ken