[evlatests] Modcomp-free: L-Band

[Barry Clark]

Having idcaf write data all the time was a conscious decision, but it
hadn't occurred to me until just now that means that 'quack' won't work.
can we do without that useful program?


> From evlatests-bounces at donar.cv.nrao.edu  Thu Jun 14 20:44:36 2007
> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:44:19 -0600 (MDT)
> From: Ken Sowinski <ksowinsk at nrao.edu>
> 
> On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Rick Perley wrote:
> 
> >    1) The first 1.25 minutes of the scan were all noise -- evidently
> > the correlator was outputting data even though the antennas were slewing
> > from the previous source (3c147 at P-band ) to the L-band source
> > (3C84).  I thought the correlator was supposed to be turned off when the
> > antennas were slewing ...
> 
> Data is not surpressed while the antennas are slewing, but it
> should be flagged.  It would be interesting to look at that
> because we have seen curiosities in flags today while antennas
> were slewing.
> 
> I don't know that doing this was a conscious decision.  If it
> is deemed desireable idcaf could probably be taught to do it.
>