! Example of a control file using the new RDBE and MARK5C ! wideband digital backend and recorder. This is mainly ! a vehicle for testing the standard RDBE_PFB setup files. ! It simply goes through all of them to make sure they work. ! The GBT and EB_RDBE are included so occasionally sideband ! inversion gets invoked. ! Started Jan. 21, 2013. ! ! ========================================================== ! ================= Cover Information ==================== ! ========================================================== ! Schedule written by Craig Walker version = 1 expt = 'RDBE test of standard setups' expcode = pfbtst piname = 'Craig Walker' address1 = 'National Radio Astronomy Observatory' address2 = 'P. O. Box O' address3 = 'Socorro, New Mexico, 87801' address4 = ' U.S.A. ' phone = '575 835 7247 ' obsphone = '575 835 7247 ' email = cwalker@nrao.edu fax = '575 835 7027 ' obsmode = '6cm 128-4-2 ' obstype = VLBA note1 = ' ' ! ========================================================== ! ============== Correlator Information ================== ! ========================================================== ! Note that enough channels should be requested to have channel ! bandwidths of no more than 0.5 MHz. Otherwise there is risk ! of smearing the data because of uncertainties in the a priori ! delays used for correlation. correl = Socorro coravg = 2 corchan = 64 cornant = 2 corpol = on corwtfn = uniform corsrcs = standard cortape = FTP corship1 = 'Craig Walker' corship2 = 'P. O. Box O' corship3 = 'Socorro NM 87801' ! ========================================================== ! ================== Program control ===================== ! ========================================================== ! Normally SCHED will not overwrite preexisting files. ! If you want this protection, comment this following line. overwrit ! Set the items desired in the scan listing in the .sum file. sumitem = el1, early ! ========================================================== ! ======= Standard Source and Station Catalogs ============ ! ========================================================== ! Standard source catalogs are sources.gsfc and sources.rfc. ! This schedule uses some aliases only in sources.gsfc. srcfile = $SCHED/catalogs/sources.gsfc freqfile = $SCHED/catalogs/freq_RDBE.dat stafile = $SCHED/catalogs/stations_RDBE.dat ! ========================================================== ! ======================= Setup files ==================== ! ========================================================== ! RDBE Setups using the PFB personality. ! The bbsyn values must be N*32 + 16 for N between 17 and 32 ! The N=32 option will give corrupted data, but is needed if it is ! desired to put all 16 channels in one polarization as in the ! second example setup. ! ! Note that bbsyn = abs( freqref + freqoff - firstlo ) and is ! the frequency within the IF of the DC edge of the output baseband ! channel. The firstlo value is normally picked up from the ! frequency file. Here freqref has been set to equal the firstlo ! so that freqoff is the frequency in the IF - same as bbsyn. ! ! For reference, the allowed values of bbsyn (or freqoff here) are: ! bbsyn = 528.0, 560.0, 592.0, 624.0, 656.0, 688.0, 720.0, 752.0, ! 784.0, 816.0, 848.0, 880.0, 912.0, 944.0, 976.0, 1008.0 ! ! In the first example setup, 5MHz pcal is used as it makes a bit ! more sense with these bandwidths. But it does mean that the tones ! (derived from 5 pulses per microsecond rather than 1) add more ! to the system noise. The second setup takes the default 1 MHz ! and is probably better for science, as opposed to test, observations. ! ! setini = trdbe_db.1cm / dbe = 'rdbe_pfb' nchan = 16 bbfilt = 32.0 bits = 2 netside = L pol = dual freqref = 21300.0 freqoff = 1008.0, 1008.0, 944.0, 944.0, 880.0, 880.0, 816.0, 816.0, 752.0, 752.0, 688.0, 688.0, 624.0, 624.0, 560.0, 560.0 pcal = '5MHz' ! See note about pcal above / endset / setini = trdbe_rcp.1cm / dbe = 'rdbe_pfb' nchan = 16 bbfilt = 32.0 bits = 2 netside = L pol = R freqref = 21300.0 freqoff = 1040.0, 1008.0, 976.0, 944.0, 912.0, 880.0, 848.0, 816.0, 784.0, 752.0, 720.0, 688.0, 656.0, 624.0, 592.0, 560.0 / endset / ! ========================================================== ! ================= Initial Scan Information ============= ! ========================================================== year = 2010 month = 12 day = 3 start = 2:30:00 ! ========================================================== ! ======================== The Scans ===================== ! ========================================================== ! Interferometer schedules ! See egrdbe.key for how to switch between MARK5A and ! MARK5C files if doing piggyback observations. ! Using EB_RDBE for Effelsberg. This uses the RDBE station ! data. dwell = 2:00 stations = VLBA_HN, VLBA_LA, VLBA_PT, VLBA_BR, VLBA_MK, GBT_VLBA setup='$SCHED/setups/rdbe_pfb_1548_dual.set' source = '3C84' / source = '3C84' / ! Removing EB_RDBE for now - frequency setup unclear. stations = VLBA_HN, VLBA_LA, VLBA_PT, VLBA_BR, VLBA_MK, GBT_VLBA setup='$SCHED/setups/rdbe_pfb_18cm_HSA_dual.set' source = '3C84' / source = '3C84' / stations = VLBA_HN, VLBA_LA, VLBA_PT, VLBA_BR, VLBA_MK, GBT_VLBA setup='$SCHED/setups/rdbe_pfb_2284_dual.set' source = '3C84' / source = '3C84' / stations = VLBA_HN, VLBA_LA, VLBA_PT, VLBA_BR, VLBA_MK, GBT_VLBA setup='$SCHED/setups/rdbe_pfb_4120_dual.set' source = '3C84' / source = '3C84' / stations = VLBA_HN, VLBA_LA, VLBA_PT, VLBA_BR, VLBA_MK, GBT_VLBA, EB_RDBE setup='$SCHED/setups/rdbe_pfb_4980_dual.set' source = '3C84' / source = '3C84' / stations = VLBA_HN, VLBA_LA, VLBA_PT, VLBA_BR, VLBA_MK, EB_RDBE setup='$SCHED/setups/rdbe_pfb_6588_dual.set' source = '3C84' / source = '3C84' / stations = VLBA_HN, VLBA_LA, VLBA_PT, VLBA_BR, VLBA_MK setup='$SCHED/setups/rdbe_pfb_7680_dual.set' source = '3C84' / source = '3C84' / setup='$SCHED/setups/rdbe_pfb_6cm_wide_lcp.set' source = '3C84' / source = '3C84' / stations = VLBA_HN, VLBA_LA, VLBA_PT, VLBA_BR, VLBA_MK, GBT_VLBA, EB_RDBE setup='$SCHED/setups/rdbe_pfb_8416_dual.set' source = '3C84' / source = '3C84' / setup='$SCHED/setups/rdbe_pfb_15256_dual.set' source = '3C84' / source = '3C84' / setup='$SCHED/setups/rdbe_pfb_22220_dual.set' source = '3C84' / source = '3C84' / stations = VLBA_HN, VLBA_LA, VLBA_PT, VLBA_BR, VLBA_MK, GBT_VLBA ! No match in freq.dat for eb_vlba setup='$SCHED/setups/rdbe_pfb_43120_dual.set' source = '3C84' / source = '3C84' / stations = VLBA_HN, VLBA_LA, VLBA_PT, VLBA_BR, VLBA_MK, GBT_VLBA, EB_RDBE setup='$SCHED/setups/rdbe_pfb_86252_dual.set' source = '3C84' / source = '3C84' /