EUROPE-59
              (EUROPEAN Geodetic VLBI Network session No. 59)
  
                        Schedule and Notes prepared by
       Axel Nothnagel, University of Bonn Geodetic Institute
  
Date of experiment:   2000 December 7
Nominal start time:   12h00 UT
Nominal end   time:   12h00 UT on December 8, 2000

Duration:             24 hrs 


Correlator:    Bonn

Participating stations:

Station     Code  
Crimea       Sm
DSS65        65
Effelsberg   Eb
Medicina     Mc
NyAlesund    Ny
Onsala       On
Wettzell     Wz

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.

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

The schedule was made with the early tape start feature. 

Wettzell was spared for IRIS-Intensive between 242-1800 and 242-2015.



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/euro59.skd for experiment EURO59  

      (all scans with at least one subnet station)


 Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) =   9.5
 Min =    .0   Max =   33.5 (Baseline Eb-Mc on 1921-293)   RMS =   7.8

 Total time:       1439 minutes ( 24.0 hours).

 Key:     Sm=CRIMEA     65=DSS65      Eb=EFLSBERG   Mc=MEDICINA   Ny=NYALES20
          On=ONSALA60   Wz=WETTZELL

                  Sm  65  Eb  Mc  Ny  On  Wz  Avg
 % obs. time:     28  22  22  30  41  44  34  32 
 % cal. time:      1   2   2   2   2   2   2   2 
 % slew time:     25  44  56  29  12  16   7  27 
 % idle time:     44  30  18  37  43  36  55  38 
 # of tapes :    1.6  .4 1.3  .5  .7 2.5  .5
 total # scans:  160 207 215 232 215 229 212 210 
 # scans/hour :    6   8   8   9   8   9   8  8.8
 Avg scan (sec): 151  94  90 113 168 167 142 132 

      # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE

   | Sm  65  Eb  Mc  Ny  On  Wz   StnTotal 
 ------------------------------------------
 Sm|160 131 143 148 122 135 134      813 
 65|    207 179 194 157 171 170     1002 
 Eb|        215 199 163 186 174     1044 
 Mc|            232 171 192 196     1100 
 Ny|                215 199 163      975 
 On|                    229 170     1053 
 Wz|                        212     1007 


 Number of  2-station scans:   37
 Number of  3-station scans:   27
 Number of  4-station scans:   31
 Number of  5-station scans:   37
 Number of  6-station scans:   65
 Number of  7-station scans:   88

 Total # of scans, observations:   285    3497


 Average baseline components for all observations
  Average XY     = 1767.
  Average XZ     = 1523.
  Average YZ     = 1364.
  Average length = 1971.