[evlatests] Modcomp-free: L-Band

[Bryan Butler]

nice :).

given the AIPS restriction on task names, we could make this FLAGL, HACK or QUONK...

	-bryan


On 6/15/07 17:32, Robert Hayward wrote:
> Sounds like the EVLA will need a new version of QUACK, and probably a 
> new name...
> 
> If a gathering of ducks is known as a "flush", and a gathering of geese 
> is known as a "gaggle", then a gathering of both waterfowl must surely 
> be a "flaggle".
> 
> Thus the combined sound they make must either be a HACK or a QUONK. Take 
> your pick...
> 
> Thank God it's Friday,
> -Bob
> 
> 
> Rick Perley wrote:
>>     QUACK (I believe the CASA types are going to call their version of 
>> this 'HONK')  is indeed a useful program, and needs to live as long as 
>> our initial flagging is less than perfect.  (I think this statement was 
>> made in 1977, when QUACK first appeared -- note that is still exists ...). 
>>     Can we not define the beginning of a scan as the time when the 
>> antennas arrive on source, according to some flag level that we can 
>> adjust?  Then, if we flag data at the highest level (if such levels are 
>> available) while antennas are in motion, we could arrange for start 
>> times of scans to occur much as the Modcomps do it now. 
>> 
>> 
>> Barry Clark wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>     
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