Meeting 12th October

Chair: Tiege

Present: Tiege, Jamie, Lucia, Liz, Ellen, Mas, Patrick, Jesse

Apologies: Bryn, Jonny, Ross, Arwin, Lucas

Absent:

General Issues:

1. How is everyone going with Hobart 26m shifts currently, are people confused as to what back-ends should be being used or is that information getting conveyed properly?
   • Hopefully number of backends will be consolidated down to only two. MKV being retired.
   • Before starting any shift, check emails to make sure no specific information has been sent to you.
2. Isn't LBA 2017OCT session soon?
   • No LBA observing due until next year!
3. Cont17 roster - Nov 28 - Dec 12.
   • Ellen! Start the rostering!
   • 3 stations, two different schedules
   • Check roster as shift times may be changed.
   • 9am-3pm, 3pm-11pm and 11pm-9am
4. Emails not getting sent through
   • Jamie has now fixed this issue, so the IVS ops email lists are correctly updated now.

Handover Issues:

1. Ho: Vacuum pressure leak for receiver cooling system (AUA029)
   • Fixed! Caused by the weather warming.
2. Ke: Mick changed disk in middle of recording, was the mystery disk that was originally being recorded to every identified? (R4811)
   • This was sorted, thanks to Warren.
   • Make sure to check module allocation sheet.
3. Yg: Pointing offsets/tracking errors, Note from Arwin in handover notes: “During setup, noticed yg had large offsets in the antenna checks, had to the the pointing checks again and the offsets were better the second time around. This has happened a few times, should this be raised at the meeting?”
   • The pointing should be OK, Jamie is going to have a squiz.