! In preparing for SCHED 11.0, I ran Verify and found disagreements ! for the positions and rates of MER-B in the crd file. Eventually ! I determined that, while the MARS (planetary ephemeris) parallax ! adjusted positions agreed between the new code and Stdout (refreshed ! only a couple of days before), the MER-B positions did not. But ! when I diffed the crd.pt new file with the crd.hn Stdout file, ! the MER-B positions agreed and the MARS positions did not. Somehow ! SCHED was getting confused about which station it was dealing with ! when using the spice files. I was not able to reconstruct any code, ! even extracting old svn versions, that would repeat the problem and ! I did not find a reason for it just looking at the code. So it ! might come back - keep an eye out for it. ! Sep. 17, 2013. Activated Vex. It is now required for observing. ! The satellites just trigger a warning about getting positions ! elsewhere for correlation. ! Example sched input for a VLBA observation for satellite ! tracking. ! ! ========================================================== ! ================= Cover Information ==================== ! ========================================================== version = 1 expt = 'Satellite tracking example' expcode = egsat piname = 'Craig Walker' address1 = 'National Radio Astronomy Observatory' address2 = 'P. O. Box O' address3 = 'Socorro, New Mexico, 87801' address4 = ' U.S.A. ' phone = '505 835 7247 ' obsphone = '505 835 7247 ' email = cwalker@nrao.edu fax = '505 835 7027 ' obsmode = '6cm 128-4-2 ' obstype = VLBA note1 = ' ' ! ========================================================== ! ============== Correlator Information ================== ! ========================================================== correl = Socorro coravg = 2 corchan = 256 cornant = 10 corpol = off corwtfn = uniform corsrcs = standard cortape = DAT 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 ! These parameters can be used to encourage continuous tape ! motion if you have lots of short scans. See the manual. ! Not needed for Mark5 and DiFX ! minpause = 10 ! Minimum playback tape stop duration. ! prestart = 20 ! Start tapes this long before scan start. sumitem = el1, az1, early, tpstart ! ========================================================== ! ======= Standard Source and Station Catalogs ============ ! ========================================================== stafile = $SCHED/catalogs/stations.dat srcfile = $SCHED/catalogs/sources.vlba freqfile = $SCHED/catalogs/freq.dat ! ========================================================== ! ======================= Setup file ===================== ! ========================================================== setini = egsat.set / band = '4cm' nchan = 4 bbfilt = 8.0 pol = dual bits = 2 freqref = 8230, 8230, 8340, 8340 / endset / ! ========================================================== ! =============== Satellite information ================== ! ========================================================== ! The SPICE files for this test job are in the same location ! as the JPL ephemeris. satinit / satname=SDU satnum=-29 kerfile=$PLANET_DATA/naif0007.tls satfile=$PLANET_DATA/SDU_s04005m.mod.bsp / satname=MER-B satnum=-253 kerfile=$PLANET_DATA/naif0007.tls satfile=$PLANET_DATA/p_b_c_031203-040126_od41vlba.bsp / ! MER-A is -254 endsat / ! Also set up to use planets in the test. ephfile = '$PLANET_DATA/JPLEPH.405.2' ! ephfile = '$PLANET_DATA/JPLEPH.421' lineinit / lineset 'sdu' restfreq=8232,8232,8240,8240 / lineset 'mer-b' restfreq=8232,8232,8240,8240 / endlines / ! ========================================================== ! ================= Initial Scan Information ============= ! ========================================================== year = 2004 month = 1 day = 15 start = 20:00:00 ! ========================================================== ! ======================== The Scans ===================== ! ========================================================== stations = SC, HN, NL, FD, LA, PT, KP, OV, BR, MK setup = egsat.set ! source = 3C454.3 dur (86400./100.) / group 2 rep 8 source = MER-B dur 60 linename='mer-b' doppler / source = MARS dur 60 linename='mer-b' doppler dopsrc 'mer-b' / group 1 rep 4 source = SDU dur 60 linename='sdu' doppler dopsrc = ' ' /