[evlatests] Modcomp free pointing

Pat Van Buskirk pvanbusk at nrao.edu
Thu Jun 14 11:14:35 EDT 2007


This appears to have been operator error, and we apologize for this. 
I'll talk to the operator who was on duty and make sure he understands 
the procedure.

Cheers,
Pat


Ken Sowinski wrote:
> There was a five hour pointing run last night, but no data was
> produced even though the antennas appeared to have been controlled
> properly.
> 
> The executor log shows that the reason is that at the switchover
> to Modcompless observing the script modcorr, which tells the
> executor to let the Modcomps control the executor and produce
> data, was run instead of execorr, which tells the executor to
> control the correlator and idcaf to produce data.
> 
> The switch back to Modcomp control at the end of the pointing
> run appears to have succeeded as there is reasonable looking
> data in the archive starting around 1830 LST which was to have
> been the end of the pointing run.
> 
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