Meeting Information

  • 1600 UT (1000 MDT)
  • AOC 317; IP: 146.88.16.8; phone: +1 575-835-7370

Agenda/Minutes

News, Travel, Visitors (McMullin)

  • Overall status: C config concludes on the 18th; weather issues toward the end of the year so a bit of a crunch to finish high priority commitments. Spate of issues (most recent the impressive sustained cold caused a spate of cryo leaks over the new year-limited high frequency observing over a period). Next week is the AAS - no meeting planned.
  • Key dates:
  • Staff Travel:
    • Lots for AAS
  • Visitors:
    • 05 Jan - John Cannon sabbatical at DSOC

Commissioning priorities for the week (McMullin, Chandler)

Single maintenance day week:
  • Mon-Tue, Thu-Fri:
    • 1330-1900 Testing/software development time
    • 1900-1330: Science operations
  • Wed: Maintenance day
  • Interrupt status for additional 3-bit testing; expected to be lab work only this week

Hardware status and updates (Langley, Perley, Rupen)

Software status and updates (Butler)

Commissioning Reports

Calibration: Perley: Cross-observatory flux calibrator survey

  • Happened after Christmas (30 hours); uncovered some issues with TelCal; excellent stress test - overall good!

Commissioning Group updates and Test Planning

  • NOTE: Please cc me on submitted tests so that it can be assigned the appropriate priority!

RSRO/ECSO Reports

C configuration status

Individual reports

Misc:

Demo Science Status

AOB

Misc Actions

  • [Frail/Butler]: Enable restrictions based on proximity to sun; review OST weather trending.
  • [McMullin/Frail]: %REDWrite up disposition of RR items.
  • [McMullin]: Review/recover metrics for Priority 0 items.
  • [Perley/McMullin]: SPW/IF/BB lexicon and mapper
  • Development of WIDAR guidelines document (Michael)
  • List of known problems (can be used by OSRO commissioning team (van Moorsel)
      • Med Priority [Rupen]: X, Ku band subbands are inverted (IF 1 is labelled as IF4, IF2 as 3, IF3 as 2, IF 4 as 1). Noted that this had been tested but there were enough changes to warrant a re-do.
      • Med Priority [TBD]: Phase offsets within scans (phase jump at scan boundaries). R&L phase offset on some scans - probably L302 LO problem, needs tracking down. MR: Seen on EA07, EA25 (both RR and LL)
      • Med Priority [TBD]: Added. Phase change when frequency changes (needs to be tested).
      • Med Priority [TBD]: Anti-aliasing does not behave as advertised.
      • Low Priority [TBD]: First scan often bad.
      • Low Priority [TBD]: Phase (and amp) wobbles; long history.

-- JosephMcMullin - 2011-01-03
Topic revision: r3 - 2011-01-04, JosephMcMullin
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