====== AuScope VLBI Operations meeting : 12 Nov 2013, 2 PM, Minutes ====== - Review of [[operations:obssummary|recent experiments]]. - Experiments reviewed: - Correlation/analysis reports: * [[operations:obssummary_2013_08|CRF76]] * [[operations:obssummary|R1606]] Chase up Ke problem (Jim) * CRF78 * R4606 * R1607 * R4607 * R4608 - recently observed * [[operations:obssummary|R4609]] * AUST16 * R1610 * R4610 - Previous Action Items - Light in Ke control room (Brett, Martin). Still to do. Ask Martin to leave light on until the IPS has a light hooked up to it. - Katherine RFI (Monitor full band (Martin, Jim)). The WiFi has been turned off. Better? Is there a good data monitoring/collection method? (Jamie) No better! 1850 MHz headsets also seen. (Jim) - Processing logs, multiple disks [[operations:agenda2013_10_08_eg1|Example]] - Hand editing is still required but Chris has a new script being tested. - Which modules to use (Imogen, Jamie). A list of which modules to use for each experiment is now on the wiki. See [[operations:start|Operations page]] - 26m IVS documentation will need updating before May 2014 - Question for Brett: how to find out the network status at the three sites (e.g. 3G or wired). Jim is working on a new monitoring script that will ring alarms/warnings when the network goes down etc. - Recent software, hardware changes. - Jim to talk to Gino about diagnosing the problem at Katherine. Ongoing - Mark5 to Yarragadee for conditioning: shipped - Operational issues - Jamie in Ceduna from this week until end of LBA run (back on 27th). On call: phone Ceduna control room 08 8625 3070 (pref), x6388 - AUST17 has been cancelled - LBA Observing next week. Please volunteer :-) Can do IVS and LBA simultaneously from Mt Pleasant. - Next meeting will focus on observing the big session. Helpful to get as many observers to the meeting as possible. Doodle poll to be used - Q & A - Jim chase up eremCtrl with Stuart for Warkworth - Pointing check at Yg problematical for OHIG85. Unknown reason. - Alarm when the network dies. And how to fix the problem. (Jim) - Next meeting : ?