To check the experiment code and the included stations, open up a terminal and type

nobs -cp

Open up a terminal and type

ssh observer@ops-serv2

and then

~/slogit.auscope.sh

Once the emacs sessions to the proc files are open, you will need to make sure the right IFs are selected. For R1, R4, AUSTRAL, CRF, CRDS, AUG, AUA and RDV experiments they should be:

ifa=1,agc,1
ifb=4,agc,4
ifc=2,agc,2
ifd=2,agc,2
dbbcform=geo

For APSG, OHIG, AOV and T2 experiments they should be:

ifa=1,agc,1
ifb=4,agc,1
ifc=2,agc,2
ifd=2,agc,2
dbbcform=geo

These are the default IF power levels for the three DBBCs.

Telescope    ifa    ifb    ifc    ifd 
Hobart       40000  48000  32500  35000
Katherine    42000  34000  32000  42000
Yarragadee   25000  29000  35000  35000

Check that the appropriate software is running on the pcfs, timing, maser, and the DBBC computers.

**Timing PC:** HMI ("UOT 12m Antenna-xxx"), Tac32Plus, and the AneMonitor.
**PCFS:** field system 
**DBBC:**DBBC2 Control DDC v104_2.exe
**Maser** H-server, Standard VCH-1005A Manager  

Close the existing windows on the screen by opening up a terminal and typing

windex

and then manually closing any stragglers.

To open e-RemoteCtrl, Log Monitor, System Monitor, delaylive, and tsys monit3) enter

windows hb ke yg

omitting any telescopes not in use.

Next, enter

windowsweb

to open browser windows to the VLBI webcams, Autocorrelation spectra, and Auscope Handover page.

You will need to login to each e-RemoteCtrl window, start recording the log, and open that log in the Log Monitor. In the case of e-RemoteCtrl not connecting, you can pipe the logfile to ops8 by opening a terminal (dont close this terminal window) and typing stream_log hb or any other station. You will need to redirect the log monitor to /tmp/hb.log to read the file and have alarms.

Open Moprin by typing

moprin

in a terminal. Moprin lets you send commands simultaneously to multiple telescopes. You can specify the telescopes you need, e.g. to select Katherine 12m and Yarragadee 12m only type stns ke yg into the moprin window.

Type the following commands, one by one, into moprin (with the correct experiment codes ofcourse)

proc=r1556$s
exper_initi
log=r1556$s

Moprin will replace the $s with the appropriate station code.

Configuring the RF and IF signal paths

DBBC Setup

In moprin please type

setupsx
iread
bread

To configure the mk5, open a terminal and type

mk5setup.py r1418 hb-ke-yg

with the correct experiment code and the required stations of course. Please not the output of the EndDIM might say dim not found or something similar. This is okay as it just means that the process wasn't running when the EndDim command was issued. If the script doesnt break out of a loop, the mk5 hasnt been setup properly.

You can switch modules using

mk5=bank_set=inc

. Please make sure you are using the correct module Module Allocation Spreadsheet

Checking clock offsets and delays

Making a test recording

Tsys measurement

Antenna checks

Weather conditions

Fringe checking procedure

Sending a station ready email to IVS

Starting and monitoring the observations

Finishing up

Processing logs and shipping data

Following on with another experiment