Date: December 13th 2018
*Time: 11 am Mountain, 1pm Eastern*
Phone: 434-817-6584 rm 152, Socorro *Attending:
LBO: Jacobs, Wainright, Ogle, Claussen, Ford, Brisken
USNO: Megan, Chris, Jon, Alan, Bruce, Matt, Phillip, Andy,
Agenda:
- VLBA Observations
- November Daily Observation Report
- November was pretty nominal with any data quality issues attributed to one instance of a stuck ellipsoid or a failure to start the observing file.
- Discussion of MkPt intensives with Wettzell.
- Aligning with potential changes with January request.
- Trying to characterize MkWz using Monday, Wednesday, Thursday intensive runs.
- In order to help differentiate, a different session name is requested by USNO. What are VLBA constraints?
- ACTION USNO: Chris will check in on use of "w" prefix
- Fixed nature of the obs will require schedule files. Merri Sue Carter (USNO-Flagstaff) is coordinating.
- USNO will deliver observing files to Jim Ogle and VLBA analysts.
- VLBA would prefer a week notice for fixed-date observations but can handle shorter in the near-term.
- ACTION VLBA: XCubes will need to be programmed to recognize that this is a USNO observation.
- November Post-Monthly Report Review:
- USNO: No issues seen.
- VLBA: We will be trying to recover backlog.
- January Pre-monthly request
- See above for MkWz changes
- List of RDV experiments and new experiments being run simultaneously with IVS. These are 24 hours experiments run at same time at R1.
- Fixed time to coordinate with R1
- Dates are known starting in January, once a month.
- Naming convention TBD, not "s"-prefix. NO USNO preference other than being unique.
- Open issues
- Networking Support Contract
- SC fiber is being lighted. Nothing else to report.
- Correlator Refresh Contract
- Mark and Jim provided an overview of the correlator hardware and networking approach. See attachment below.
- Next meeting on January 10th
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EphraimFord - 2018-12-06