From: <s.tingay_at_email.protected>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 06:02:16 +0800

Sure. ASKAP will help a bit at L-band at least. And perhaps AuScope
will help at S/X for bright sources.

New Norcia looks tough, based on some discussions I had with the
station managers in Perth and Carnarvon still remains a long-shot I
think. Any update on that from the U.Tas. angle Simon?

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 5:59 AM, Chris Phillips <Chris.Phillips_at_csiro.<!--nospam-->au> wrote:
>Hi Steve,
>
>VDIF is coming and will solve the conversion issue. Mark5b already means it
>is not too bad.
>
>Remember with all this we still have the missing "intermediate" baseline
>problems - it is a big jump from Australian to international baselines.
>
>Cheers
>Chris
>
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>
>
>On 15/10/2009, at 2:04 AM, Steven Tingay wrote:
>
>>Hi Simon,
>>
>>Well done!
>>
>>The very first real disk-based + software correlated observation we
>>did in 2004(?) used Japan, South Africa, VLBA and the LBA and used K5,
>>Mark5 and LBADR recordings.  Not sure we have done much since with
>>Japan, but certainly not with any of the VERA antennas.
>>
>>Of course, the pain in regular use is the format conversion currently
>>required.  If this could be streamlined or eliminated, it would be a
>>very useful additional capability.
>>
>>Cheers, Steven
>>
>>On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Simon Ellingsen
>><Simon.Ellingsen_at_utas.<!--nospam-->edu.au> wrote:
>>>
>>>Dear LBAers
>>>              In late May Hobart participated in a 2 hour test
>>>observation
>>>at the end of a JVN methanol maser VLBI observing session.  We observed a
>>>number of continuum calibrators and equitorial methanol maser sources
>>>with a
>>>4 MHz bandwidth and centre frequency of 6.668 MHz.  Hobart observed dual
>>>polarization, while the Mizusawa VERA antenna and the Yamaguchi 32m
>>>recorded
>>>LCP only.  Mareki Honma arranged for conversion of the recorded
>>>disk-based
>>>data from one of the K5 formats into Mark5B, while at Hobart we recorded
>>>using the standard cdisko recorder, but with data saved in Mark5B format
>>>rather than the standard LBA format.
>>>
>>>              After lots of help from Chris Phillips to get the DiFX
>>>input
>>>file correct, I have finally been able to get the first hour for the
>>>Hobart-Mizusawa baseline correlated using version 1.5 of DiFX.  Over that
>>>period we observed two calibrators and two maser sources and we have
>>>fringes
>>>from J0609-1542 and the two methanol masers G188.95+0.89 and G213.70-12.6
>>>(Mon R2), which are shown in the attached postscript file.
>>>
>>>              I think that we have previously had Australia-Japan fringes
>>>in recent eVLBI experiments and 20 years or so ago in some Mark II
>>>experiments (perhaps also some VSOP experiments).  However, I think that
>>>this is the first time we have had fringes to any of the VERA stations
>>>from
>>>Australia?
>>>
>>>              I think it would be good to arrange a full-scale
>>>Australia-Japan observation in the not to distant future, as I'm sure
>>>that
>>>there are a range of experiments both maser/line and continuum which
>>>could
>>>benefit from long N-S baselines?
>>>
>>>Regards
>>>
>>>Simon
>>>--
>>>Simon Ellingsen : Senior Lecturer Physics & Astronomy, University of
>>>Tasmania
>>>Currently : Humboldt Experienced Research Fellow, MPIfR, Bonn
>>>email : Simon.Ellingsen_at_utas.<!--nospam-->edu.au
>>>WWW   :
>>>http://fcms.its.utas.edu.au/scieng/physics/pagedetails.asp?lpersonId=681
>>>Phone : +49 (0)228 525 392 (work)      +49 (0)1522 374 5728 (mobile)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>
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>>
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