LBA Schedule and Observing Roster for Hobart & Ceduna, March 2014

Useful links:

Australian LBA wiki & master schedule.
External CSIRO October 2013 LBA Block Schedule page.
Hobart and Ceduna experiment start-up and monitoring instructions.
Katherine: LBA Observations with AuScope Telescopes (on the AuScope Operations Wiki).

Session Notes:

Most of the experiments are with Radioastron and are only of short duration
AuScope telescopes are not participating in this session.
Please remember to stick a post-it note with the experiment name on the disks when you remove them!

Observing & Monitoring Checklists:

Observing setup checklist for Hobart and Ceduna can be found here.

Current Observing Roster for Hobart:

Shift time (local ADST)	Experiment(s)	Band	Notes	Difficulty	Observer
Monday 17/3/14 1230 - Tuesday 0900	v507a, radioastron	L-band	v507a is TBC	Moderate	Dave?
Tuesday 18/3/14 0900 - 1500	Radioastron	L-band	Just monitoring	Easy	Imogen
Tuesday 18/3/14 2300 - Wednesday 0900	Radioastron	L-band	Easy		Warren
Wednesday 19/3/14 0900 - 1600	Radioastron, v252aq	L-band, X-band	Rx change at ~1200	Moderate	Anita
Wednesday 19/3/1600 - Thursday 0900	v252aq, Radioastron	X-band, L-band	Rx change at ~0800	Moderate	Chris

Current Observing Roster for Ceduna:

Shift time (local ADST)	Experiment(s)	Band	Notes	Difficulty	Observer
Monday 17/3/14 1230 - Tuesday 0900	v507a, radioastron	L-band	v507a is TBC	Moderate	Dave?
Tuesday 18/3/14 0900 - 1500	Radioastron	L-band	Just monitoring	Easy	Imogen
Tuesday 18/3/14 2300 - Wednesday 0900	Radioastron	L-band	Easy		Warren
Wednesday 19/3/14 0900 - 1600	Radioastron, v252aq	L-band, X-band	Rx change at ~1200	Moderate	Anita
Wednesday 19/3/1600 - Thursday 0900	v252aq, Radioastron	X-band, L-band	Rx change at ~0800	Moderate	Chris

Setup Notes:

Hobart

Experiment	Configuration	Agilent	LO (SML01/SML02)	Tone (SMY01)	DAS Profile	Disks/Data quantity	Start time (ADST)	Notes
v252aq	X-band (rx6)	14 GHz	777/809 MHz	841.4	VSOP.PRO	~0.75 set (20.5 hours)	1130	Need to use PalfreymansClient.sh to choose RCP only (Select menu 1, 1 & 1 for RCP only)

Ceduna

Experiment	Configuration	Agilent	LO (SML01/SML02)	Tone (SMY01)	DAS Profile	Disks/Data quantity	Start time (ADST)	Notes
v252aq	X-band	13.04 GHz	637/669 MHz	841.4	VSOP.PRO	~0.75 set (20.5 hours)	1130	Need to use "./lovells_folly/folly_interface" to choose RCP only (Set RF switches to XOXX)

Old Observing Roster for Hobart:

Shift time (local ADST)	Experiment(s)	Band	Notes	Difficulty	Observer
Sunday 9/3/14 1230 - 2100	v519a	L-band		Easy	Chris
Sunday 9/3/14 2100 - Monday 10/3/14 0900	v519a, vt11ab, Radioastron, v470a	L-band	vt11ab is eVLBI	Hard	Jamie M
Monday 10/3/14 0900 - 2100	v470a	L-band		Easy (Remote mon?)
Monday 10/3/14 2100 - Tuesday 11/3/14 0900	vt10af, Radioastron, v252ap	K-band		Moderate
Tuesday 11/3/14 0900 - 1600	v252ap	K-band		Easy	Remote monitoring by Courtney/Anita (assuming AuScope room?)
Tuesday 11/3/14 1600 - Wednesday 12/3/14 0900	v252ap, v498c, Radioastron	K-band		Moderate	Warren (Auscope too)

Old Observing Roster for Ceduna:

Shift time (local ADST)	Experiment(s)	Band	Notes	Difficulty	Observer
Sunday 9/3/14 1230 - 2100	v519a	L-band		Easy	Chris
Sunday 9/3/14 2100 - Monday 10/3/14 0900	v519a, Radioastron, v470a	L-band	No Ced for vt11ab - eVLBI	Hard	Jamie M
Monday 10/3/14 0900 - 2100	v470a	L-band		Easy (remote mon?)
Monday 10/3/14 2100 - Tuesday 11/3/14 0900	vt10af, Radioastron, v252ap	K-band		Moderate
Tuesday 11/3/14 0900 - 1600	v252ap	K-band		Easy	Remote monitoring by Courtney/Anita (assuming AuScope room?)
Tuesday 11/3/14 1600 - Wednesday 12/3/14 0900	v252ap, v498c, Radioastron	K-band		Moderate	Warren (Auscope too)

Setup Notes:

Hobart

Experiment	Configuration	Agilent	LO (SML01/SML02)	Tone (SMY01)	DAS Profile	Disks/Data quantity	Start time (ADST)	Notes
v519a	L-band	4.1 GHz	602 MHz	163.9	VSOP_HO.PRO	~0.5 set (12 hours)	1230	Will probably have to remove BG3 cable and put in quadrature hybrid. Pols may be bad...

Ceduna

Experiment	Configuration	Agilent	LO (SML01/SML02)	Tone (SMY01)	DAS Profile	Disks/Data quantity	Start time (ADST)	Notes
v519a	L-band	6.2 GHz	702 MHz	163.9	VSOP.PRO	~0.5 set (12 hours)	1230

Older Observing Rosters for Hobart:

Sunday 2/3/14 0800 - Sunday 2/3/14 2000	v255v	6.7 GHz	Vasaant's experiment	?	Vasaant
Sunday 2/3/14 2000 - Monday 3/3/14 0800	v255v	6.7 GHz	Vasaant's experiment	?	Simon
Monday 3/3/14 0800 - Monday 3/3/14 2000	v252(?)	22 GHz			Chris
Monday 3/3/14 2000 - Tuesday 4/3/14 0800	Radioastron(?)	22 GHz			Warren
Tuesday 4/3/14 1300 - Tuesday 4/3/14 1500	Radioastron(?)	1.6 GHz			Jamie Mc

Older Observing Roster for Ceduna:

Shift time (local ADST)	Experiment(s)	Band	Notes	Difficulty	Observer
Sunday 2/3/14 0800 - Sunday 2/3/14 2000	v255v	6.7 GHz	Vasaant's experiment	?	Vasaant
Sunday 2/3/14 2000 - Monday 3/3/14 0800	v255v	6.7 GHz	Vasaant's experiment	?	Simon
Monday 3/3/14 0800 - Monday 3/3/14 2000	v252ao	22 GHz			Chris
Monday 3/3/14 2000 - Tuesday 4/3/14 0800	Radioastron(?)	22 GHz			Warren
Tuesday 4/3/14 1300 - Tuesday 4/3/14 1500	Radioastron(?)	1.6 GHz			Jamie Mc

Setup Notes:

Hobart

Experiment	Configuration	Agilent	LO (SML01/SML02)	Tone (SMY01)	DAS Profile	Disks/Data quantity	Start time (ADST)	Notes
v252ao		16.6 GHz	636 MHz		VSOP_HO.PRO		9am

Ceduna

Experiment	Configuration	Agilent	LO (SML01/SML02)	Tone (SMY01)	DAS Profile	Disks/Data quantity	Start time (ADST)	Notes
v252ao		17.4 GHz	336 MHz		VSOP_HO.PRO		9am