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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.
ds351
Hobart
Module: HOB+0121 0GB
katherine
Module: HOB+0083 0GB
- approx 11:00 UT, antenna stuck. Resetting drives not working. Called Jamie who advised that it is likely due to weather. KE removed from dynamic observing at this stage. (JR)
- If it is not up and working by ~23:00 UT, will contact Mick Stone and see if it is possible for him to make a trip out. (JR)
- Attempted to contact Mick. Left a message. (JR)
- 23:30 UT. Spoke to Warren who suggested that Brett may know what Mick needs to do to reset the drives. Brett to get into contact with Mick (who is currently on site) (JT)
- 00:04 UT Issue resolved. Ke back is schedule. Fix: the power isolator to the antenna drives are located at knee height below the antenna drive cabinet in the pedestal. When the switch is vertical, the isolator is on. Mick switched it off momentarily (verified by 'it going quiet'), and then switched it back on. 10-20 seconds later HMI updated and the drives were OK again. Should you need to talk someone through this, get them to use the UTAS headset at yg (attached to x6283) (JR)
- 08:11 UT - “wth” command doesn't return any values, a search for “wx” revealed it hasn't been working FOR THE ENTIRE EXPERIMENT - told Jamie. (Ellen)
- 09:57 UT - Weather command now giving the 3 required values. Jamie fixed the wx reporting - the MET sensor webpage had locked up, so he changed the webpage address. (Ellen)
- 10:37 UT - Delay difference dropped about 0.01us, but seems to be stable now. (Ellen)
- 17:51 UT - alarm, fs self-terminated. Was restarted had to also restart ds and go schedule=ds351ke again (?). I think this worked first scan after crash will hopefully 352-1802 (Lucas).
- There seems to have been a small clock jump just before 352/12:00UT (Bryn)
Yg
Module: HOB+0069 0GB
- 00:45 UT alarm for no pcfs activity for 15 minutes. e-remote control lost connection and currently unable to vnc to pcfsyg (JR)
- 01:05 UT connection re-established, e-control back up and able to ping timeyg and pcfsyg - dyshed script had to be restarted (JR)
- 01:08 UT Back down again. (JR)
- 01:17 UT reset VPN, still unable to connect
- 01:30 UT rebooted D-Link router via vnc 59.167.111.242. dyshed script restarted again, appears to be working (JR)
- 04:28 UT (DOY353) - Yarragadee schedule script crashed, missed the current schedule file grab and is awaiting the new one. ( Tiege)
- 05:43 UT - Turns out the problem I had initially thought was occurring was not the case, looks like pcfs could not write to the log anymore(?), potentially pcfs disk full, followed instructions outlined in the 'Current Issues' section of the wiki and deleted some files from /home/oper/auto_cor_test/ (Tiege)
- 06:40 UT Yg finally back to normal operation. Tiege's problem at 05:43 UT somehow left the schedule=none. Hoped that would be fixed in the next dyn update interval. Wasn't. Re-started dysched.pl on pcfsyg. Schedule file recognised but a halt command was auto issued so yg remained idle. On the next dynamic update interval found source and all okay as of 06:40:20UT. (Liz)
R4770
Hobart
Module HOB+0110/Start 8508.55 GBs
- Experiment started Okay (Lucas).
katherine
Module USN-0069/Start 0.00GBs
- Experiment started OK (Lucas).
Yg
Module UVLBI-25/ Start 0.000GBs
- Experiment Started Ok (Lucas).
RD1612
Hobart
Module: HOB-0049, Start position: 6664.983 GBs
- Experiment started okay (Nick).
- erc is not recognizing setupsx as a command. (Nick)
- setup8f for this experiment (Warren)
- 348.22:35 UT wind stow, released 22:39 lost scan 348-2235 (Warren)
- 349:00:23 to 01:19 UT wind stow missed scans 349-0020 through 349-0143 (Warren)
- 349.02:32 to 04:21 UT windstowed, scans affected 349-0237 through 349-0413 (Warren)
- data 255 GB less than scheduled due to stows (Warren)
- 349.05:06 windstowed scans 349-0509, 349-0519 (Warren)
- got most of scan 349-0535 between stows (Warren)
- windstowed for scan 349-0554 to 349-0605b (Warren)
- windstowed for scan 349-0638 (Ross)
R1770
Hobart
Module: HOB-0110, Start position: 3303.068 GBs
- Experiment started okay (Lucas + Mas).
- 0114 - 0123 Windstow (JMc)
- 0137 - 0144 Windstow (JMc)
- 0148 - 0153 Windstow (JMc)
- 0206 - 0211 Windstow (JMc)
- 0223 - 0235 Windstow (JMc)
- 0820UT Disk record has still been on when wind-stowed (JS)
- 0824UT Restarted field system to ensure that the antenna should still be stowed, since wind looks better now (JS)
- 0826UT Antenna stuck, power cycled drives (JS)
- 0828UT Antenna acquired, schedule resumed (JS)
- 1653c Windstow (NH)
All windstows: 348-0113 to 348-0124, 348-0137 to 348-0144, 348-0147 to 348-0153, 348-0205 to 348-0210, 348-0223 to 348-0232, 348-0302 to 348-0314, 348-0320 to 348-0342, 348-0353 to 348-0410, 348-0437 to 348-0439, 348-0456 to 348-0535, 348-0557 to 348-0611, 348-0633 to 348-0828, 348-1653c
Katherine
Module: GSFC+015, Start position 3598.581 GBs
- Experiment started okay (Lucas + Mas)
- 1134UT `error st -998 reading systemclock1` unable to fix with `antenna=open`, `antenna=operate`, rebooting drive system (JS)
- 1148UT schedule restarted at for 1150 scan, affected scans 348-1133a through 348-1146 (JS)
- 1153UT halted schedule to restart rxmon for an rfpic error (JS)
Yarragadee
Module: HART+101, Start position 3556.658 GBs
- Experiment started okay (Lucas + mas)
MV001
Hobart
Recording to HAY-0049, start position 0.00 GBs
Katherine
Recording to GSFC+015/8000, start position 0.00 GBs
Yarragadee
Recording to HART+101/8000, start position 0.00 Gbs
AUG034
Hobart 12m
Module HOB+0125: 15852.075 GBs
- Experiment started Okay (Lucas)
Hobart 26m
- Experiment started late as antenna was still in hohb config. Due to this I thought the mk5ho was to be used (and it had no module in it). Anyway Jim helped me change back over to the correct ctl files which are (for future reference):
- on oper@hobart:
- cp /usr2/control/equip.mk4.ctl /usr2/control/equip.ctl and
- cp /usr2/control/mk5ad.mkv.ctl /usr2/control/mk5ad.ctl
- First scan 344=2124 at 21:24 UT (Lucas)
- 05:34 UT - error fl -1 previous source in this schedule not reached before new source was commanded for scan 345-0533. No errors in following scans. (Ellen)
- 08:58 UT - error fl -1 previous source in this schedule not reached before new source was commanded for scan 345-0901. No errors in following scans. (Ross)
- 09:19 UT - error fl -1 previous source in this schedule not reached before new source was commanded for scan 345-0920. No errors in following scans. (Ross)
- 09:58 UT - error fl -1 previous source in this schedule not reached before new source was commanded for scan 345-0958. No errors in following scans. It is damn windy though (Ross)
- 12:57 UT - error fl -1 previous source in this schedule not reached before new source was commanded for scan 345-1257. No errors in following scans. (Ross)
- 15:34 UT - error fl -1 previous source in this schedule not reached before new source was commanded for scan 345-1534. No errors in following scans. (Ross)
Katherine
Module HOB+0131 9569.751
- Experiment started ok (Lucas)
Yarragadee
Module HOB+0033: 0.000 GBs
- Experiment Started ok (Lucas).
