[evlatests] setting reference antennas
Ken Sowinski
ksowinsk at nrao.edu
Tue Jul 22 15:43:53 EDT 2008
By default telcal chooses, for any subarray, the antenna with the
smallest DCS number as the reference antenna. This is not always
desirable. That antenna may be broken; for a phased array observation
another antenna might be more appropriate.
I have placed a script 'setrefant' in /home/mchost/evla/bin which
uses the long-ago-implemented REST interface to the PhysicalAntenna
to set a reference antenna or antennas. The choice remains in place
for the duration of the scrupt currently executing. If a new script
is started another reference antenna choice will need to be made.
Examples:
To force antenna 13 to be the reference antenna,
setrefant ea13
To forcer antennas 14 and 15 to be reference antennas,
setrefant "ea14 va15"
Caveat:
It has been a long time since I tested that telcal really responds
to explicit reference antenna choices. Some careful checking is
encouraged.
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