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Chair/Presenting: Ellen/

In Attendance:

Apologies: Jonny, Ross, Arwin, Tiege

Absent:

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Agenda:

General Issues

Is the power still down at Mt Pleasant, do we have an ETA?
Caltsys at Ho not set during startup means overflowing (useless) tsys values. DO THE CHECKLIST PROPERLY EVERY 2 HOURS.
Does Arwin's windstow script work? Has anyone had any problems?
Is the new flogit script working now? Before it was giving log file .prc extension
Warren sent out an email re module allocation - check spreadsheet during experiment set up (rapids shouldn't go on modules with anything else, except each other)

Make sure you check the end of experiment email before sending it - especially how much data is on each module if multiple are used, this should be recorded in the handover notes when the banks swap over
Check the summary file for each telescope when choosing a module to use, if at all possible, make sure it's all on one module - the experiment shouldn't fill up the module 2 hours before the end. This is less of an issue for Hobart for some experiments.

Issues from Handover notes

AUA013 - during setsup ifc power levels were below target, 27K when expecting 32k (Arwin?)
If you spot a problem either fix it or keep an eye on it. Don't just report it and do nothing, even if it's just saying the on-call person said it couldn't be fixed.
- 11:20:00 UT Temporarily got a GPIB time-out when maserdelay called, set off alarm for Yg and Hb. Counters were fine and within 0.3 us difference. Monitoring. (Lucas)
If an experiment starts late, put the reason and the first full scan in the handover notes. Observers don't get the start messages so the information needs to be in the hand over notes. You also can't track the disc position very well if you don't know how much was lost at the beginning…
R4760 - 08:00UT Is S-band right polarisation attenuation now supposed to be set at 6 dB, has been noted as either 0 or 6 in the setup instructions but not with much confidence, used to be 7 I think (Ross).
Dynamic scheduling seems to have quite regular slewing during scan errors

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