From: <stingay_at_email.protected>
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 23:53:28 +1000 (EST)

Hi Jim,

Your document seems sensible and well thought out. It would seem to be a
bit of extra work to fit in with the JPL scheduling regime, but probably
well worth it if it can get us longer allocations during the VLBI
sessions.

I like the idea of knowing well in advance the dates of sessions and the
Tid allocation. This will greatly help planning and scheduling, and the
allocation of disk resources.

Cheers, Steven

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On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Jim Lovell wrote:

>Dear VLBIers,
>
>The next ATNF TAC meeting is just a week away so it's time we decided on dates
>for LBA observations in the period 1 October 2006 to 31 March 2007. Those of
>you who called in at the last VLBI telecon may remember I promised to look
>into ways of improving our Tid 70m allocations. Please see the attached
>document for a proposed strategy and let me know what you think. If there's
>general agreement that we give it a try then I suggest we decide on the LBA
>dates for the October semester and I will pass this information back to JPL.
>
>We need to choose three dates, two weeks for the October semester plus one 24h
>allocation in January for v190. I understand the earliest the first week can
>be is the first week of November as Mopra is already scheduled up till then.
>I'm guessing we would prefer to keep the second week to late in the semester,
>so sometime in March perhaps? As for the 24h in January, would it be possible
>to nominate a week in which the observation could occur and we fix the date
>late in September (see the attached document for an explanation)?
>
>Regards,
>Jim
>
>
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>
>
Received on 2006-07-26 23:53:55