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Use the official Parkes vnc sessions on joffrey:1 and joffrey:2. Run cdisko and DAS in joffrey:2.
Start the following (in different virtual desktops).
.
atsnap
, lorun
below) ssh vlbi@pkvsi1
then das1
ssh vlbi@pkvsi1
then das2
ssh vlbi@pkvsi1
then cdisko2
For DAS and cdisko usage and control see here
The telescope should be parked before you change recever otherwise the translator can get stuck. Run atsnap park
in an xterm on joffrey
Select required receiver in òÀÜoperfccòÀÝ and click òÀÜplace selected receiver on axisòÀÝ.
OUTOFDATE?? Turn on Focus cabin camera while changing receivers, and remember to turn
it off again as it is a source of RFI
Click on the reciver name below for receiver specific setup notes.
Receiver | Wavelength |
---|---|
Multi | 21cm/1.4 GHz |
H-OH | 18cm/1.6 GHz |
Galileo | 12cm/2.4 GHz |
METH6 | 5cm/6.7 GHz |
Mars | 3cm/8.6 GHz |
13mm | 13mm/22 GHz |
You MUST select the receiver before starting atsnap
below, otherwise pointing will be wrong.
As observer on one of the suns run
òÆÒ cd ~/lba
òÆÒ lorun SETUP.cmd
(where SETUP is the name of the correct session setup file, e.g 2011Mar_HOHa.cmd). Someone must have set this up first.
The Switch Matrix is only needed when Mark5 recorder is used (see the Mark5 setup notes | ). The DAS are not connected through the switch matrix
The antenna schedule should be copied automatically. If it is missing, download the .psn file from the atnf ftp area (see experiment wiki). As pksobs
on joffrey run atsnap
, with the name of the .psn file. E.g.
òÆÒ atsnap vc001.psn
The .psn files will be in ~pksobs/lba
Make sure that levels on the VLBI DAS are within range (ie the IF Level is mid range).
If not, adjust attenuation on the loGUI.
Use the C12 attenuators 1&2 for coarse setup (acts on both IFs), use the C40 1,2,3,4 attenuators for fine setup. Usually only the C40 attenuators should be adjusted.
Before adjusting attenuation, click the òÀÜrefreshòÀÝ button on loGUI near the bottom left
If you need to change the attenuation, you may want to update the lorun .cmd file.
Tsys is measured by sending a 200 Hz signal to the receiver and a detector connected to the analog output of the VLBI DAS. On the òÀÜStanford Research SystemsòÀÝ signal generator in rack#4, check the frequency is 200 Hz and amplitude is 5V.
Start the òÀÜCal Control UnitòÀÝ from PKMC gui. Ensure all relevant receivers are connected to SRSFG as well as the òÀÜDAS BEòÀÝ and òÀÜMARS BEòÀÝ if Mars is being used.
If the polarisation is swapped, a quick remedy is to swap the DAS inputs at the bottom of rack 2 in the equipment room upstairs. Swap the A1/B1 and A2/B2 short patch cables between the DAS OUT and DAS IN. However when observing remotely this may not be possible. For dual polarization experiments just make a note in the wiki. For single pol experiments just make a different channel selection in cdisko to select the other polarisation.
If you need to check that you are observing at the right frequency, you can use the vertex radiator to generate a test tone using the following procedure:
THE FOLLOWING IS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST ONLY AND IS NO LONGER NEEDED
Get the on source flagging file for the whole session. Log onto a Solaris machine (e.g. pavo) as observer and run òÀÜantfgòÀÝ:
pavo-101% antfg <year> <dayno start> <dayno end>
This creates an AIPS style flagfile as ./antflag
E.g.
pavo-101% antfg 2006 316 323
This creates a flagfile covering range of days 2006/316-323 inclusive. This file should be copied to Epping and put in the vlbi ftp area /pub/people/vlbi/cal/parkes/logs
with the name MonthYear, using a 3 letter abbreviation for the month. E.g.:
> scp antflag vlbi@athena:/nfs/ftp/people/vlbi/cal/parkes/logs/Nov2006.antflag
Note that the flag data for an entire session should be contained in a single file. A CGI script extracts the needed entries for individual experiments.
Tsys values are recorded in
/nfs/PKSlocal/logs/monitor_data/backends/yyyy-mm-dd_rack3ASD.csv
These should be mirrored to Sydney, using the following command logged in to a Marsfield Unix machine as vlbi.
> parkeslogs.sh
A program SYSTEMP runs on the Vax YOWIE, reading the Synch Demod attached to the AT samplers, near the DAS inputs (upstairs control room).
The inputs to the synch Demod are set up by the user - in recent years I have been using the analogue outputs of the DAS Fine Tuner (FT) for this purpose. This isn't ideal but is the best we have. (See notes below).
The program writes 15-second averages to the file;
YOWIE::OBS$DATA:[SYSTEMP]SYSTEMP_G.LOG
where each use of the program creates a higher version of this file.
These can be FTP'd by logging-in to YOWIE (as VLBI, usual pw), Appropriate local Parkes (Solaris) machines to use as an intermediate storage location include sagitta, pavo, pisces, perseus or orion.
$vlbi> sd obs$data:[systemp] $vlbi> ftp <target_machine> .... ftp> put SYSTEMP_G.LOG;356 systemp.355
Once the files are on the Parkes Solaris system you can produce something more usuable with the utility pks_tsys;
sagitta% ~rey052/bin/pks_tsys SYSTEMP input file [SYSTEMP.LOG] : systemp.355 TSYS output file [TSYS] : v215a.tsys Integration interval [ 5.000min] : Diode scale factors [ 1.0000 1.0000] :
which averages the raw numbers with a specified interval (default 5 minutes) and scales the values with user-specified calibration factors. These factors need to be determined from calibration observations e.g. òÀÜSPOTòÀÝ.
The file created looks like;
! PRKS Tsys data from file: systemp.355 ! Tcal A/B = 1.0000 1.0000 * 1.0000 318 09:12:35.2 30.4401 29.6506 ! 0.17 0.20 19 318 09:17:29.6 30.3742 29.7018 ! 0.29 0.31 18 318 09:22:24.0 30.4703 29.6044 ! 0.15 0.13 19 ...
which should be close to the format needed for AIPS. The numbers after the òÀÜ!òÀÝ are the RMS values for each channel and the number of values in the average.