EUROPE-58
              (EUROPEAN Geodetic VLBI Network session No. 58)
  
                        Schedule and Notes prepared by
       Axel Nothnagel, University of Bonn Geodetic Institute
  
Date of experiment:   2000 September 4
Nominal start time:   12h00 UT
Nominal end   time:   12h00 UT on September 5, 2000

Duration:             24 hrs 


Correlator:    Bonn

Participating stations:

Station     Code  
Crimea       Sm
Matera       Ma
Noto         Nt
NyAlesund    Ny
Onsala       On
Wettzell     Wz
Yebes        Yb (not yet determined)

Tape usage and scans to be observed: See summary of schedule below


Purpose
=======
The purpose of this experiment is to determine station coordinates and their
evolution in the southern part of the European geodetic VLBI network with the 
highest precision possible. 


Schedule
========
The schedule was produced by Axel Nothnagel using the automatic mode of sked.
The schedule was optimized for local sky coverage. 
The sky coverage for all stations were optimzed. Simeiz is tagged along.
Due to correlator transition to Mark IV only 6 stations will be correlated.
For Yebes a schedule in tagalong mode is generated in case it will
participate on a hot swap basis.

The minimum SNR on all baselines is 35 at X band and 25 at S band.
SNR between Onsala and Matera are 
reduced to 25/20 to avoid extraordinary scan lengths.

The schedule was made without the early tape start feature. 

Wettzell was not spared for IRIS-Intensive because there is a public holiday in the US
and no Intensive scheduled for that day.



Procedures
==========
The frequency sequence, EUR2-SX, used for the last EUROPE experiment will
also be used for this experiment.

     Channel        Sky Frequency
     =======        =============
               X-band

     1              8210.99  
     2              8220.99  
     3              8250.99  
     4              8310.99  
     5              8420.99  
     6              8500.99  
     7              8550.99  
     8              8580.99
  
               S-band

     1              2212.99  
     2              2227.99
     3              2237.99  
     4              2267.99  
     5              2287.99
     6              2292.99  


Correlation
===========
This experiment will be correlated at the Bonn Correlator.



   SKED Summary from file /diskB5/sked97/sched/euro58.skd for experiment EURO58  

      (all scans with at least one subnet station)


 Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) =  10.2
 Min =    .0   Max =   54.5 (Baseline Ny-On on CTA26   )   RMS =   9.7

 Total time:       1440 minutes ( 24.0 hours).

 Key:     Sm=CRIMEA     Ma=MATERA     Nt=NOTO       Ny=NYALES20   On=ONSALA60
          Wz=WETTZELL   Yb=YEBES   

                  Sm  Ma  Nt  Ny  On  Wz  Yb  Avg
 % obs. time:     34  45  45  54  51  48  35  45 
 % cal. time:      1   2   2   2   2   2   2   2 
 % slew time:     24  17  34  13  16   8  19  19 
 % idle time:     39  34  16  29  29  40  42  33 
 # of tapes :    2.0  .7 2.4  .8 2.8  .7 1.9
 total # scans:  158 245 237 233 229 242 173 216 
 # scans/hour :    6  10   9   9   9  10   7  9.0
 Avg scan (sec): 188 160 166 201 195 172 178 180 

      # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE

   | Sm  Ma  Nt  Ny  On  Wz  Yb   StnTotal 
 ------------------------------------------
 Sm|158 152 147 126 123 145 109      802 
 Ma|    245 233 186 189 219 165     1144 
 Nt|        237 180 185 214 165     1124 
 Ny|            233 209 205 141     1047 
 On|                229 195 142     1043 
 Wz|                    242 162     1140 
 Yb|                        173      884 


 Number of  2-station scans:   37
 Number of  3-station scans:   33
 Number of  4-station scans:   24
 Number of  5-station scans:   45
 Number of  6-station scans:   69
 Number of  7-station scans:   87

 Total # of scans, observations:   295    3592


 Average baseline components for all observations
  Average XY     = 1904.
  Average XZ     = 1768.
  Average YZ     = 1524.
  Average length = 2188.