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Handover notes
Please use this page to write up any notes on anything that needs to be passed on to the next observer or should go into the end of experiment message.
Notes should be placed below the horizontal line as a new blog entry.
Continuing problems should be copied to the Current Issues page.
**Template for Handover notes:**
Be sure to add any specific notes about the experiment if required, for example “Special back end configuration for x reason”. Put as much detail as you can - the more the better.
====== Experiment Name ====== **Hobart 12m** Disk VSN: abc-123 | Data volume at beginning: 2.34 GB * 1300UT a comment from me (user) **Katherine 12m** Disk VSN: | Data volume at beginning: GB * **Yarragadee 12m** Disk VSN: | Data volume at beginning: GB * 1300UT Experiment started okay (JMc).
Format for entering a comment It is important to stick to this formula - there is a good reason we need this information, so please include it!
Time stamp in UT * Comment * (Your Name)
For Example:
20:00UT: Wind stows, Missed scans 012-3456 to 012-3457 (Jim)
20:50UT: Mark5 lost connection, had to restart Mark5 and reconfigure DBBC, called Jamie on call to fix, missed scans 012-3456 to 012-4567 (Jim)
Again - as much detail as you can. It is important to remember that these notes will be sent to the correlator, so please make sure they make sense to others.
aua021
Hobart 26m:
Disk VSN: HOB+0094
Data volume at beginning: 0.0 GB
- 1730UT Exp started OK. (Ross)
- Device v3 timed-out on response from MATCN not noticed until setup at 1700UT since Jim observing (Ross)
- 1810UT Mostly working after a trip to Mt pleasant, except for a single vc which is still dodgy after several restarts (Ross)
- 1820UT Tried again to reset but made it worse, stable again after 1826UT (Ross)
- 1852UT Returned to UTAS and errors have returned included LO unlocked lights on 2 of the vcs, waiting until morning now (Ross)
- 2351UT synced formatter time to station time - noticed that several LO were unlocked on the VC rack at approximately 2325UT - tried resetting the VC rack and TTY distributor. Still seeing errors for one VC - assuming all data prior to this bad due to formatter time issue. (Bryn)
- 0000UT VC rack issues fixed. Data should be good again.
- 0843UT Alarm: Previous source in the schedule not reached before new source was commanded. A quick scan of the logs revealed that there was (Lucas):
- 2017.130.08:43:32.92#antcn#Error: Antenna reported error from last command (0)
- 2017.130.08:43:32.96#antcn#Antenna control system Problem with the antenna drives
- Antenna was fixed by following notes here. Only required the first bit so drives must have got confused in a little loop. Maybe due to the small scan times (Lucas).
- Scans effected 130-0844 through to 130-0902 (Lucas)
Katherine 12m:
Disk VSN: IAAE-018
Data volume at beginning: 0.0 GB
- 1730UT Exp started OK. (Ross)
Yarragadee 12m:
Disk VSN: PKS+0021
Data volume at beginning: 0.0 GB
- 1730UT Exp started OK. (Ross)
r1791
Note Hobart 12 m is sitting this experiment out
Katherine 12m:
Disk VSN: TR-00015
Data volume at beginning: 0.0 GB
- 1700UT Exp started OK. (Arwin)
Yarragadee 12m:
Disk VSN: USN-0205
Data volume at beginning: 0.0 GB
- 1700UT Exp started OK. (Arwin)
R4790
HB
Module UVLBI-06/2400
Start position: 0.4 GBs
- Experiment started Okay (Lucas).
- Issues with the system monitor retrieving Monica data. Attempted to reboot monica on pcfshb as su but receive error socket: server socket: Address already in use
- Still unable to restart. The issue is also causing LO status not display a value in the system monitor
- Process IDs were killed, and monica was restarted. The issue persists.
KE
Module BKG-0036/2000
Start position: 0.4 GBs
- Experiment started Okay (Lucas).
- wth not returning any values (Lucas).
- 10:00UT noticed wth back when doing checklist (Liz)
YG
Module OSOD/2000
Start position: 0.4 GBs
- Experiment started Okay (Lucas).
R1790
HB
Keep getting ACU time errors. As far as I can tell from my reading on the wiki page this is fine, however annoying. I tried the method from R1766 when Jamie fixed it with 'rebooting the drives in hmi' however all the reboots I could think of haven't worked. Error is ACU time differenced exceeds 0.25 seconds.
Module CURT+102/6000/, start position 0.385 GBs
- Experiment started okay, although I got an alarm about rfpic time-out, pretty sure this is a known problem (Lucas).
- rfpcn alarm keep going off. Just for fun I tried restarting rxmon a few times, didn't work. Since we recently talked about this in the meeting I'm assuming the pic is still broken so gonna turn the alarm off in the alarm_actions files (Lucas).
KE
Module USN-0093/4000/, start position 1.090 GBs
- wth not returning any values (Lucas).
- Experiment started okay (Lucas).
YG
Module USN-0067/4000/, start position 0.385 GBs
- wth reporting values however ready_message.pl isn't inserting them into email (Lucas).
- Experiment started okay (Lucas).
- 22:25 UT despite the lack of errors YG has steadily lost 13 GBs of data since the beginning of the experiment (Lucas).
aua020
Hobart 26m
Disk VSN: HART+101
Data volume at beginning: 5556.781 GB
- 15:00 UT Drives needed a reset through the vdesk terminal. Information on how to do this is now on the wiki. (Arwin)
- 16:00 UT Experiment started OK. (Arwin)
- 04:30 UT Added some extra helium in the telescope, this has brought the pressure back above 275psi. (Arwin)
R4789
Hobart 12m:
Disk VSN: JIVE-057/2000
- Experiment started Okay (Lucas).
- Note that rfpcn error, as following on from the last experiment is assumed to be benign (Lucas).
- Tsys at S- and X-band slightly elevated (JMc)
Data volume at beginning: 0.000 GBs
Katherine 12m:
Disk VSN: IAA-0026/2000
Data volume at beginning: 0 GBs
- Experiment started OK (Lucas).
Yarragadee 12m:
Disk VSN: IPA-0010/2000
Data volume at beginning: 0 GBs
- Experiment started okay (Lucas).
