[evlatests] New bandpass tool feature
Walter Brisken
wbrisken at nrao.edu
Thu Jul 2 11:38:23 EDT 2009
Hi all users of the EVLA bandpass tool,
The EVLA bandpass tool available from
http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/~wbrisken/evla.html has a new trick. It can plot
bandpasses from the WIDAR deformatters. Simply go to the bottom of the
list of Antennas and you will see new entries of the form: d001-t-1:01:A .
This cryptic code encodes three things: The deformatter device name, the
EVLA antenna number (with a leading zero if < 10) and the IF name. The
antenna and IF are needed in conjunction with the deformatter name in
order to determine the actual frequency range that the spectum represents.
The "Which IF" selection will be ignored when you choose an "Antenna" that
is actually a widar deformatter.
The program needs knowledge of which widar deformatters are connected to
which EVLA antennas/IFs. This is done through a text file:
/home/mchost/evla/data/widarFORMs
which currently contains:
d001-t-0:19:A
d001-t-1:01:A
d001-t-2:02:A
d001-t-3:03:A
exactly the same information as you see in the web form. I have only
populated this file with 4 such defomatters based on data from:
http://cmibhost.aoc.nrao.edu/
Someone (Michael???) will have to complete the population this file and
keep it up to date as connectivity changes.
-W
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