! Example schedule for VLBA+GBT observations ! with 512 Mbps recorded bit rate. ! ! This used to use 2 tape drives on the VLBA and 2 heads ! on MKIV, but now just uses disk modules. Still uses 8 and ! 16 MHz baseband bandwidths, which are compatible with other ! old systems. ! ! Adapted from egiv.key 11-July-1997 ! egiv.key Provided by Huib vanLangevelde 5-Feb-1997. ! Adapted for RDBE March 17, 2014 RCW. ! ! Control code and print requests ! overwrite sumitem=el1, el2, disk, dwell optmode = scans opminant = 1 ! ! Proposal specific ! expt = 'Sample that generates 512 Mbps recordings.' expcode = 'eg512' version = 2 piname = 'Huib van Langevelde' address1 = 'JIVE, Radiosterrenwacht Dwingeloo' address2 = 'Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo' address3 = 'the Netherlands' phone = '+31 521 595 220' obsphone = '+31 528 221 273' fax = '+31 521 597 332' email = 'huib@jive.nfra.nl' obsmode = 'VLBA/MKIV' obstype = 'VLBI' note1 = ' ' ! ! end tape initialization stuff ! begin correlator ! correl = 'Socorro' coravg = 4 corchan = 16 cornant = 10 corpol = 'on' corwtfn = 'uniform' corsrcs = 'standard' cortape = DAT corship1 = 'Huib van Langevelde' corship2 = 'JIVE, Radiosterrenwacht Dwingeloo' corship3 = 'Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo' corship4 = 'the Netherlands' cornote1 = ' ' ! Standard Source and Station Catalogs for Mark5A stafile = $SCHED/catalogs/stations_RDBE.dat srcfile = $SCHED/catalogs/sources.gsfc freqfile = $SCHED/catalogs/freq_RDBE.dat ! ! Put a setup here. ! Note that these setups will use an LO of 4100 MHz at the VLBA ! (and 5636 at the GBT). The crossovers are at 4740 and 4996 MHz. ! The latter one is very close to the old network standard frequency ! of 4990 MHz. So drop to lower frequencies, and avoid the crossover ! by at least 10 MHz. Both files used a FREQREF=4990.99 before the ! conversion to the RDBE. Change to .25 on the end for a pulse-cal ! friendly setting that can be reached by the RDBE, and drop the MHz ! to avoid the crossover. ! setinit = eg512-256 / ! The 256 Mbps mode for this example. ! This is all that is needed. dbe = rdbe_ddc nchan = 8 bits = 2 bbfilter = 8.0 pol = DUAL netside = U freqref = 4970.25 freqoff = -19.50, -19.50, -11.50, -11.50, -3.50, -3.50, 4.50, 4.50 / endset / setinit = eg512-512 / ! The 512 Mbps mode for this example. dbe = rdbe_ddc nchan = 8 bits = 2 bbfilter = 16.0 freqref = 4950.25 freqoff = -32.50, -32.50, -16.50, -16.50, -0.50, -0.50, 15.50, 15.50 netside = U, U, U, U, U, U, U, U pol = dual / endset / ! ! ! Ready to start ! year = 1997 month = 3 day = 4 start = 12:00:00 ! ! stations = vlba_hn, vlba_sc, gbt_vlba ! Start with 256 Mbps to be sure that the slower rate ! in an observation that contains 512 Mbps works correctly. ! In this circumstance, both drives should be used, but ! Long time for postpasses and tape change. ! at 8 Mbps/track. setup = eg512-256 repeat 8 source = '3C454.3' dwell = 22:00 / repeat 6 source = '3C84' dwell = 22:00 / ! Readback tests take up to 4 min in 512 mode. gap = 4:00 repeat 4 source = '3C84' dwell = 22:00 / gap = 0 repeat 3 source = '3C84' dwell = 22:00 / repeat 3 source = '3C84' dwell = 22:00 / repeat 4 source = 'J0508+84' dwell = 22:00 / ! This is where the tape change should occur. Allow lots ! of time. Then start up at the full 512 rate. Users will ! mostly just use the 512 rate. gap 50:00 setup = eg512-512 repeat 1 source = 'J0508+84' dwell = 22:00 / gap 4:0 repeat 6 source = 'J0508+84' dwell = 22:00 / gap 0 repeat 7 source = 'J0508+84' dwell = 22:00 /