Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1352
Prepared by C. Thomas, NVI, Inc./GSFC
Refer to http://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/program/descrip2008.html#r1
for the session purpose.
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Parameter values for experiment R1352   
Experiment description: IVS-R1
Scheduler: NASA       Correlator: Please see the master schedule.
Nominal start: 2008-315-17:00:00         Nominal end: 2008-316-17:00:00
 Current yyyyddd:    2008315 (2008.86)  ( 14781 MJD, MON. 10NOV.)
 Greenwich sidereal time:   20:20: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT)
 Sun's RA and DEC:   15h  4.9m   -17d 22.8
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Important Station Information

Ny Alesund and Zelenchukskaya were tagged along to this
schedule file.
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There are no observations for Kokee and Wettzell from 18:15 U.T.
to 19:45 U.T. Kokee and Wettzell will participate in the
intensive session during this period.
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First observations
Source      Start      DURATIONS                   
name     yyddd-hhmmss  Ft  Ho  Kk  Ny  Ts  Wz  Zc  
0358+210 08315-170000|     200 196      86 200 130|
1611+343 08315-170447|  53      53          49    |
0237-027 08315-170456|      43          43      43|
1150+812 08315-170654|          43      43  43    |
1546+027 08315-170822|  43                  43    |
0859-140 08315-170851|      43          43        |
1212+171 08315-171023|          43      43        |
0110+495 08315-171218|                  46  46  46|
CTA102   08315-171350|  43          43      43    |
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Last observations
Source      Start      DURATIONS                   
name     yyddd-hhmmss  Ft  Ho  Kk  Ny  Ts  Wz  Zc  
CTA102   08316-164927|  43          43      43    |
0743+259 08316-165137|      49  49      43        |
1013+054 08316-165417|      43  43      43        |
1418+546 08316-165623|          66      43  66  43|
0235+164 08316-165853|      43      43  43  43    |
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   SKED Summary from file ./r1352.skd for experiment R1352   

      (all scans with at least one subnet station)


 Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) =  10.1
 Min =    0.0  Max =   80.0 (Baseline Ts-Wz on 0648-165)   RMS =  14.3

 Total time:       1440 minutes (  24.0 hours).

 Key:     Ft=FORTLEZA   Ho=HOBART26   Kk=KOKEE      Ny=NYALES20   Ts=TSUKUB32
          Wz=WETTZELL   Zc=ZELENCHK
                  Ft   Ho   Kk   Ny   Ts   Wz   Zc   Avg
 % obs. time:      25   24   32    7   35   36   13   25
 % cal. time:       3    5    6    2    8    5    2    4
 % slew time:      38   52   29    7   31   17   33   30
 % idle time:      33   18   32   83   26   40   50   41
 total # scans:   247  411  521  131  678  450  212  378
 # scans/hour :    10   17   22    5   28   19    9   16
 Avg scan (sec):   86   50   53   46   45   70   55   57
 # data tracks:    16   16   16   16   16   16   16
 # Mk5 tracks:     16   16   16   16   16   16   16
 Total GBytes:    765  740  992  215 1088 1129  418  764
 Total GB(M5):    680  658  882  191  967 1004  371  679
 # of tapes :     1.0  1.0  1.0  1.0  0.1  1.0  1.0
 tape change times (hhmm):
                                                                                                                                                                
Total number of tapes:   6.1  Total GBytes (M5) recorded:  4752.7
      # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE 
  |  Ft   Ho   Kk   Ny   Ts   Wz   Zc  StnTotal
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Ft|       10   47   17   12  201   80     367      
Ho|           268   38  340   33   38     727      
Kk|                 64  407   99   47     932      
Ny|                     115   91   52     377      
Ts|                          239  126    1239      
Wz|                               192     855      
Zc|                                       535      


 Number of  2-station scans:  466
 Number of  3-station scans:  405
 Number of  4-station scans:   90
 Number of  5-station scans:   25
 Number of  6-station scans:    3
 Number of  7-station scans:    0

 Total # of scans, observations:   989     2516

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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       0.00
  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:
  KOKEE    NYALES20 WETTZELL ZELENCHK 
  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       0.00
  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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Monitoring Sources
 Source      Min     Max    Actual  Num #Scans
0035-252     1.00    1.50    0.83    21   13
0641+392     1.00    1.50    1.31    33   25
1846+322     1.00    1.50    1.19    30   15
1212+171     1.00    1.50    0.76    19   10
0420+022     1.00    1.50    1.71    43   22
1546+027     1.00    1.50    1.75    44   19
CTA102       1.00    1.50    2.74    69   17
1150+812     1.00    1.50    1.43    36   10
0859-140     1.00    1.50    0.79    20   12
0110+495     1.00    1.50    1.11    28   10
Total                       13.63   343  153
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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 FFFFF FF
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Major Options
SkyCov        Yes
Min_Between    20
Best%        60.0
Last_Hrs    24.00
Add_ps      30.00
Obs_Wts     SNRwt     
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Tape types
 ID  Station   Tape length         Density         Passes
 Ft  FORTLEZA Mark5A  
 Ho  HOBART26 Mark5A  
 Kk  KOKEE    Mark5A  
 Ny  NYALES20 Mark5A  
 Ts  TSUKUB32 K5      
 Wz  WETTZELL Mark5A  
 Zc  ZELENCHK Mark5A  
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SNR Targets
 Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans
     X-band (margin   5)     S-band (margin   3)
     Ft  Ho  Kk  Ny  Ts  Wz          Ft  Ho  Kk  Ny  Ts  Wz  
 Ho  20                          Ho  15
 Kk  20  20                      Kk  15  15
 Ny  20  20  20                  Ny  15  15  15
 Ts  20  20  20  20              Ts  15  15  15  15
 Wz  20  20  20  20  20          Wz  15  15  15  15  15
 Zc  20  20  20  20  20  20      Zc  15  15  15  15  15  15