[evlatests] Excessive correlator configurations

[Bryan Butler]

yep.


Rick Perley wrote on 1/26/16 8:18 :
>      I suspect this may have something to do with antennas being taken
> out of service for the move, then reappearing later?
>
> On 01/26/2016 08:08 AM, Rick Perley wrote:
>> The 27-hour 'flux density model' run is completed, and the data have
>> been downloaded onto lustre.  In examining what is there, I have
>> encountered a strange peculiarity:
>>
>>     The run has 10 unique frequency tunings (one for each band, plus
>> an extra for the X-band referenced pointing).  There should,
>> therefore, be 10 'correlator configurations' in the archive.
>>
>>     In fact, there are 51.
>>
>>     Each of the 10 unique frequency tunings has resulted in 5 to 6
>> separate, but identical, 'configurations' in the database.  I've seen
>> this behavior once before -- in one of the beam holography runs -- and
>> the 'fix' was relatively easy:  'DBCON' correctly rejoins the
>> disparate datasets.   There seems to be no loss of data.
>>
>>     But it's a nuisance to have to load 51 separate files, then join
>> them all together.
>>
>>     What is happening here?
>>
>>     Rick
>>
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