! SAMPLE SCHED INPUT FOR EXPERIMENT PLANNING. ! ! This file shows how to use SCHED to determine times when sources ! are available, possible uv coverage, sky distribution etc. ! ! OPTMODE=UPTIME is used to generate a psuedo schedule in which ! each source has a day long string of scans, all on the same ! day. The summary file and the plotting capabilities can then ! be used to obtain the desired planning information. ! Note, SCHED will not make telescope control files when ! OPTMODE=UPTIME because the time order of scans is not enforced. ! ! These capabilities should replace the Caltech package program ! UPTIME for most purposes (I hope all). ! ! Start SCHED interactively and specify the line (without the !): ! plot schedule=egplan.key / ! ! manual_simp.key is an even simpler example that will do the same ! thing as this file. ! ! To use for planets, restrict to the VLBA only and uncomment the ! ephfile line and the planet scan lines. ! --------------------------------------------------------------- overwrit ! Prevents need to clean out old files expcode = egplan obstype = NONE version = 1 ! Optional cover stuff (with obstype=none) piname = 'Craig Walker' expt = ' Make uv plots' ! Standard source catalogs are sources.gsfc and sources.rfc. ! This schedule uses some aliases only in sources.gsfc. srcfile = '$SCHED/catalogs/sources.gsfc' stafile = $SCHED/catalogs/stations.dat freqfile = $SCHED/catalogs/freq.dat ! Uncomment the following to look at planets. ! ephfile = '$PLANET_DATA/JPLEPH.405.2 nosetup stations = SC, HN, NL, FD, LA, PT, KP, OV, BR, MK, EB, VLA1, HS ! stations = SC, HN, NL, FD, LA, PT, KP, OV, BR, MK ! for planets. vlamode = VS ! VLA needs something. sumitem = el1, az1, ha1, pa1 ! Show these items in the summary. optmode = uptime ! Show source availability. All sources same day. opdur = 24:00:00 ! Total time range covered. opminant = 1 ! Source must be up at this many antennas. opminel = 15 ! Minimum elevation for source to be "up". year = 1997 month = 12 day = 10 start = 00:00:00 dur = 15:00 gap 0:00 ! Length and spacing of dummy scans. ! Give one scan per source for which information is desired. source = 3C84 / source = DA193 / source = 3C120 / source = 3C273 / ! If checking planets, uncomment the ephfile line above and the sources ! below. Also use only the VLBA stations. ! source = Venus / ! source = Jupiter / ! source = Saturn /