From: <Chris.Phillips_at_email.protected>
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 18:19:37 +1100 (EST)

>FromBrian...

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Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 17:54:40 +1100
From: Brian J Boyle <brian.boyle_at_csiro.<!--nospam-->au>
To: "Phillips, Chris ((ATNF, Marsfield))" <Chris.Phillips_at_csiro.<!--nospam-->au>
Cc: VLBI observers <vlbiobs_at_atnf.<!--nospam-->csiro.au>,
     "Staveley-Smith, Lister (ATNF, Marsfield)" <Lister.Staveley-Smith_at_csiro.<!--nospam-->au>,
     "Ferris, Dick (ATNF, Marsfield)" <Dick.Ferris_at_csiro.<!--nospam-->au>
Subject: Re: LBA &#64; 1 Gbps

Dear Chris

That's great news!

Many congratulations to the team.

Brian

On 09/03/2006, at 4:59 PM, Phillips, Chris ((ATNF, Marsfield)) wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>Just letting you all know that we have just got first fringes on
>the LBA
>at 1 Gbps recording date.
>
>The test experiment is using two DAS at ATCA and Parkes each recording
>data at 512 Mbps to disk and 512 Mbps at Mopra, Hobart and Ceduna.
>Using
>the latest version of the Swinburne software correlator we have seen
>fringes on all ATNF baselines, with a total of 1 Gbps between ATCA and
>Parkes.
>
>Thanks to Dick Ferris for help with sorting out problems with the
>special
>cable needed to achieve these data rates and Adam Deller for
>modifying his
>correlator to work with this mode and all the VLBI observers
>cooperation
>with this no-standard setup.
>
>No plots yet sorry - tomorrow :-)
>
>cheers
>Chris

B.J.Boyle
Director CSIRO ATNF
9372 4300
Received on 2006-03-09 18:19:37