[evlatests] [Fwd: Baselines and EVLA]

[Rich Moeser]

Pat Van Buskirk wrote:
> Below is a report from the evening operator on Nov 4 re using 14 & 16 in 
> pointing tests. Please let me know if you need further information.
> 
> Cheers,
> Pat
> 
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Baselines and EVLA
> Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 22:20:01 -0700
> From: Steve Steele <ssteele at aoc.nrao.edu>
> Organization: NRAO
> To: Pat Van Buskirk <pvanbusk at aoc.nrao.edu>
> 
> Good Day Pat,
> 
> I have restarted EVLA Antennas (14 and 16) 8 times now, and some things
> have come up with these antennas, the VLA antennas and the times.
> 
> Observation #1- The closer I command sysptgx-part.evla to the second of
> observation, the longer that it fringes and stays on track. There is
> some sort of 6 second delay between the time you push "submit",and the
> time that it's queued, and then it is "Active".

This "6 second delay" is simply the 5 second update rate of the 
"scripts" screen.

> 
> I tried several before and several after and 2 that were accurate to the
>   second.
> 
> The ones that let me submit (with a six second delay) to the second
> lasted the longest.
> 
> These two antennas do not with the same wrap that AOI says it does.
> 
> I tried McMonitor in a last dying effort, but to know avail.

I checked on the status of things Saturday morning and noticed the 
executor task was not present so restarted it.

I copied the logs prior to restarting the executor, but have not yet 
looked over them.

Steve: Please "cc" me when you have problems like this.


--Rich