From: <stingay_at_email.protected>
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 14:22:09 +1100 (EST)

sounds good to me

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Dr Steven Tingay stingay_at_astro.swin.edu.au
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On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Jim Lovell wrote:

>Dear VLBIers,
>
>Roppesh recently told me that the best days to go travelling in India
>are those deemed inauspicious for travel for religious and/or
>astrological reasons. On those days the trains and buses are a lot less
>crowded.
>
>Well, I've been looking into the crystal ball that is the DSN schedule
>and have discovered that Black Friday the 13th of May 2005 is indeed an
>inauspicious day for spacecraft tracking. We have been allocated a
>whopping 32.4 continuous hours on the 70m! This is the first time I've
>seen such an allocation in the almost 6 years I've been in this job. The
>time range is:
>
>Day 133, 03:00 UT to 134, 11:25 UT, or
>May 13, 13:00 to May 14, 21:25 AEST.
>
>In fact this comes as some form of compensation for losing the 70m for 6
>months from June/July as it undergoes a major upgrade.
>
>Looking at the IVS schedule +/- a week of this date, Hobart looks clear,
>Hart has commitments on days 129/130, 136/137 and 139/140, Kokee on
>131->133 and 138-140. So my suggestion is to allocate the week leading
>up to the Tid time for the April semester, i.e:
>
>Day 127 14:00 UT to day 134, 14:00 UT, or
>Sunday May 8, 00:00 AEST to Saturday May 14 23:59 AEST
>
>How does that suit everyone?
>
>Cheers,
>Jim
>
>--
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Received on 2004-11-23 14:22:31