Date: December 15th 2017
*Time: 11 am Mountain, 1pm Eastern*
*Phone: 434-817-6585 rm 220, Socorro *Attending:
LBO: Walter, Peggy, Ephraim
USNO: Chris, Bruce, Matt, Phillip, Andy, Nicole, Megan, John
Agenda:
- VLBA Observations
- November Daily Observation Report:
- Early in the month, had poor rms
- Pie Town resolved
- Had one lost day due to MK FRM failure. This highlights the need for an alternate baseline (HN-OV)
- G&H codes were common on observations (low fringe amplitude and p-cal amplitude)
- USNO still determining whether this is due to RFI
- There was no relation with elevation of sources
- Chris has not noticed particular sources contributing to G & H codes. ACTION USNO to investigate this further.
- Walter; Could be satellite based interference
- Continuous Observations
- NRAO: Observations are complete. First correlations have shown no problems.
- November Post-Monthly Report Review:
- A couple of corrections will be made and a version 2 will be released.
- Open issues
- C-band Testing
- USNO update: Interested in exploring path forward with Goddard. Current CalcSOLVE is not ready for C-band and naming scheme needs to be coordinated with IVS (meeting next week).
- Will determine additional testing in CY2018.
- The observation showed MK had no p-cal present.
- ACTION: NRAO to investigate T7311
- SC Update
- Internet is still non-operational
- Commercial power was restored.
- Once networking is restored, M&C data will determine overall health of antenna and immediate maintenance needs.
- Next meeting on January 18th