Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1305
Prepared by C. Thomas, NVI, Inc./GSFC
Refer to http://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/program/descrip2007.html#r1
for the session purpose.
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Parameter values for experiment R1305   
Experiment description: IVS-R1
Scheduler: NASA          Correlator: Please see the master schedule
Nominal start: 2007-337-17:00:00     Nominal end: 2007-338-17:00:00
 Current yyyyddd:    2007337 (2007.92)  ( 14438 MJD, MON.  3DEC.)
 Greenwich sidereal time:   21:48: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT)
 Sun's RA and DEC:   16h 38.3m   -22d  6.7
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Important Station Information

Ny Alesund was tagged along to this session. 
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There are no observations for Wettzell from 18:15 U.T.
to 19:45 U.T. Wettzell will participate in the
intensive session during this period.
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First observations
Source      Start      DURATIONS                       
name     yyddd-hhmmss  Ft  Hh  Ho  Ny  Tc  Ts  Wf  Wz  
0454-234 07337-170000|      40  40          40        |
1749+096 07337-170000| 111         110 116      49 116|
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Last observations
Source      Start      DURATIONS                       
name     yyddd-hhmmss  Ft  Hh  Ho  Ny  Tc  Ts  Wf  Wz  
1611+343 07338-165336| 200          84 200      97  85|
0727-115 07338-165455|          40          40        |
0235+164 07338-165638|      40              40      40|
0133+476 07338-165801|              40      40  40  40|
0637-752 07338-165807|          40      40            |
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   SKED Summary from file ./r1305.skd for experiment R1305   

      (all scans with at least one subnet station)


 Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) =  10.9
 Min =    0.0  Max =   62.4 (Baseline Ny-Tc on 1749+096)   RMS =  15.4

 Total time:       1439 minutes (  24.0 hours).

 Key:     Ft=FORTLEZA   Hh=HARTRAO    Ho=HOBART26   Ny=NYALES20   Tc=TIGO    
          Ts=TSUKUB32   Wf=WESTFORD   Wz=WETTZELL
                  Ft   Hh   Ho   Ny   Tc   Ts   Wf   Wz   Avg
 % obs. time:      43   26   28   20   57   32   37   36   35
 % cal. time:       3    3    4    4    4    7    5    5    4
 % slew time:      41   55   46   17   12   23   18   13   29
 % idle time:      12   15   20   59   27   37   39   45   32
 total # scans:   289  283  388  303  335  583  407  430  377
 # scans/hour :    12   12   16   13   14   24   17   18   16
 Avg scan (sec):  129   80   63   56  146   48   78   72   83
 # data tracks:    16   16   16   16   16   16   16   16
 # Mk5 tracks:     16   16   16   16   16   16   16   16
 Total GBytes:   1445  917 1022  721 1879 1219 1290 1266 1220
 Total GB(M5):   1284  816  909  641 1670 1084 1147 1126 1084
 # of tapes :     0.1  0.1  0.1  0.1  0.1  0.1  0.1  0.1
 tape change times (hhmm):
                                                                                                                                                                
Total number of tapes:   0.6  Total GBytes (M5) recorded:  8675.6
      # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE 
  |  Ft   Hh   Ho   Ny   Tc   Ts   Wf   Wz  StnTotal
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Ft|      158   23   67  223   14  187  151     823      
Hh|            88   42  125   72   81  141     707      
Ho|                 25  114  266   24   18     558      
Ny|                      44  235  200  234     847      
Tc|                           35  186  115     842      
Ts|                               198  255    1075      
Wf|                                    253    1129      
Wz|                                           1167      


 Number of  2-station scans:  362
 Number of  3-station scans:  345
 Number of  4-station scans:  187
 Number of  5-station scans:   89
 Number of  6-station scans:   11
 Number of  7-station scans:    0
 Number of  8-station scans:    0

 Total # of scans, observations:   994     3574

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Recording mode
  Name  Code 
GEOSX    SX
Recording mode setup for:
  FORTLEZA HOBART26 TSUKUB32 
  Mode      Tot.Rate      Tot.BandW  #chan #bits  Barrel
 Mk341:2   256.000 Mbits  128.000 MHz   14   1     NONE
  Chan.BW  #Subpasses  Tracks(*fan)  Tot.tracks  Speed
  8.00 MHz      1         16(*2)        32       0.01
  X-band spanned bw=   720.0 MHz       rms spanned bw=   280.4 MHz
  S-band spanned bw=   140.0 MHz       rms spanned bw=    50.9 MHz
  Effective number of channels recorded per sub-pass
          X         S         Total
         10.000     6.000    16.000
Recording mode setup for:
  HARTRAO  NYALES20 TIGOCONC WESTFORD WETTZELL 
  Mode      Tot.Rate      Tot.BandW  #chan #bits  Barrel
 Mk341:2   256.000 Mbits  128.000 MHz   14   1     16  
  Chan.BW  #Subpasses  Tracks(*fan)  Tot.tracks  Speed
  8.00 MHz      1         16(*2)        32       0.01
  X-band spanned bw=   720.0 MHz       rms spanned bw=   280.4 MHz
  S-band spanned bw=   140.0 MHz       rms spanned bw=    50.9 MHz
  Effective number of channels recorded per sub-pass
          X         S         Total
         10.000     6.000    16.000
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There were no Monitoring Sources scheduled during this session.
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Minor Options
Option         Norm      Wt   Aux_Parm
Astro           Abs      3.00
BegScan         Rel      1.00
EndScan         Rel      1.00
NumObs          Rel      1.00
StatIdle        Abs      3.00
StatWt          Abs      1.00 FFFFT FFF
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Major Options
SkyCov        Yes
Min_Between    20
Best%        60.0
Last_Hrs     1.00
Add_ps      30.00
Obs_Wts     SNRwt     
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Tape types
 ID  Station   Tape length         Density         Passes
 Ft  FORTLEZA Mark5A  
 Hh  HARTRAO  Mark5A  
 Ho  HOBART26 Mark5A  
 Ny  NYALES20 Mark5A  
 Tc  TIGOCONC Mark5A  
 Ts  TSUKUB32 Mark5A  
 Wf  WESTFORD Mark5A  
 Wz  WETTZELL Mark5A  
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SNR Targets
 Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans
     X-band (margin   5)     S-band (margin   3)
     Ft  Hh  Ho  Ny  Tc  Ts  Wf          Ft  Hh  Ho  Ny  Tc  Ts  Wf  
 Hh  20                              Hh  15
 Ho  20  20                          Ho  15  15
 Ny  20  20  20                      Ny  15  15  15
 Tc  15  15  15  15                  Tc  12  12  12  12
 Ts  20  20  20  20  15              Ts  15  15  15  15  12
 Wf  20  20  20  20  15  20          Wf  15  15  15  15  12  15
 Wz  20  20  20  20  15  20  20      Wz  15  15  15  15  12  15  15