[evlatests] [Fwd: Baselines and EVLA]

[Bryan Butler]

i take credit/blame for it.  i will check in detail the effect of the change and 
in worst case just put it back to what it was before (missing 10 sec at the end 
of a scan is alot better than missing a minute at the beginning!).

mea culpa.

	-bryan


On 11/7/05 17:15, Ken Sowinski wrote:
>> Below is a report from the evening operator on Nov 4 re using 14 & 16 in 
>> pointing tests. 
> 
> I used the version of D10 which looks at the archive and can
> confirm that what we see is exactly what Rick reported in his
> note a few minutes ago.
> 
> What was happening during the baseline run (and presumably the
> pointing run) was that the first few records were noise and the
> last few looked normal.  It is clear that the EVLA antennas were
> late in getting to source compared to the VLA antennas because
> they started later.  This explains the operator's reports that
> the EVLA was not looking at the same source as the VLA.
> 
> The delay is not the same for all scans.  Some were only 10 or 20
> seconds, others were more than a minute.  I can supply the d10 
> output if anyone cares to look for a pattern.
> 
> So this time it must be Bryan's fault it must have happened when
> he fixed the end of scan problem, which, Rick reports, is gone.
> 
> Ken
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