[evlatests] EVLA Antenna Stowing

[Pat Van Buskirk]

Per Rob Long, the antennas do not autostow when commands cease. We have 
to manually park/stow the antennas.

Cheers,
Pat


Barry Clark wrote:
> We should find out why they don't autostow.  They should.  (We went to
> moderate amounts of trouble to preserve this feature.)  The timeouts are
> lengthened - the MIB takes about five minutes to time out, at which point
> the timeout in the ACU begins.
> 
> But yes, they should be parked at the end of observing anyway.
> This shouldn't be in obs2script - one of these days (and I hope soon)
> we will want the antennas to go directly from one script to another.  
> Also, at the moment, one cannot set the brakes from the script.  Having 
> the Executor interface invoke the Stow routine is the way to go.  This 
> routine knows what azimuth to park them at.
> 
> Pat - could you have somebody verify that they do not autostow.
> 
> 
>>We've been told that the EVLA antennas do not autostow when not 
>>receiving commands and have asked the operators to park/stow the 
>>antennas manually after a test is complete. We do this by either 
>>commanding the antenna to the correct az/el (az is different for each 
>>arm) or issuing Barry's command:
>>
>>/home/asg/.maven/repository/nrao/bin/stow evlaparm "ea14 ea16"
>>
>>JC had a good suggestion - what if obs2script added a final scan to put 
>>the antenna into park or stow? What do you think?
>>
>>Cheers,
>>Pat
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