[evlatests] antenna 18 works
Bryan Butler
bbutler at nrao.edu
Wed Mar 15 18:44:43 EST 2006
antenna 13 was being climbed on by the SKA tourists. it should be available
now, unless somebody left a lockout/tagout on it.
On 3/15/06 16:07, Ken Sowinski wrote:
>> Despite the winds we are now doing pointing to make the antenna
>> more useful in the short term. Later I will try to optimize focus.
>
> Both these have now been done. Given the wind only the
> change in El collimation looks significant; it was changed
> by -0.8 arc-min. Focus was examined and a reasonable setting
> is 3.5 cm. Both these changes have been made in the data base.
>
> A long scan was started at 2233 IAT on #C84 with 14, 16 and 18.
> Antenna 13 seems not to be available today. It ended at 2308.
> A more careful comparison with other EVLA and VLa antennas
> might be a good thing.
>
> I have encouraged the operator to include antenna 13 (which is
> on the master pad) in the baseline run scheduled for tonight.
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