Testing AIPS++  Detailed Log

April 12, 2000, session:

key:  TTT = trouble
      QQQ = question

Did a reboot and restarted aips++.  System is much more responsive now
starting up in just 52 seconds.  Logger window came up in the right
size too.  And X is only taking 11MB instead of the 30MB it had before
reboot.  Got some tips from Pat Murphy and discovered that my IDE
controller card wasn't being properly recognized.  Applied a patch to
my 2.2.12 kernel from the manufacturer and now aips++ comes up in 30
seconds.

Now continuing my efforts to make a visibility plot...

Success!  Got a u,v coverage plot and a visibility plot.  Not sure what
was going wrong before.  

QQQ> I see some blue points and some yellow ones.  I'm guessing that these
are different correlations (RR in blue, RL in yellow?).  I read the help
but I still don't know -- no information there about what is plotted.

Eventually found the Setjy function (search function in the Tool manager
is pretty nifty).  After a couple tries this seems to have worked.

TTT> minor bug in the one-line task description reads:
     "Compute the model visibility for a speci"  
     kind of leaves the user in suspense.
TTT>  Also it took me a while to find the "GO" button since it was off the
bottom of my screen.

QQQ> Now I think I'm supposed to fun 'ft' to make the MODEL_DATA
column.  I found that tool but I'm not sure how to run it.  I don't
see how to tell it to use a point source model with the flux density I
put (someplace) with 'setjy'.

QQQ> Tried to do some editing.  Couldn't get going, keep hitting a
SEVERE ERROR "Illegal z axis corrected_amplitude" no matter how I set
the Z axis.

--- end of testing on April 12.  Frustration meter
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