This month’s ASKA Update reports on survey progress and plans for continued survey observations across the end of 2024 and into 2025. In some observations, there is a significant departure from calibration solutions obtained from daily bandpass observations of PKS B1934-638. In these cases, priming ASKAP’s self-calibration process with information from the Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey (RACS) allows better adaption than using the observed data alone. This approach was previously tested for DINGO and we are now testing the same method on WALLABY data, including the field shown above. Standard self-calibration results are shown in the upper left panel, while RACS-based phase-only self-calibration improves image quality as seen in the upper right panel. The addition of an amplitude self-calibration step based on RACS improves image quality even further as shown in the bottom left panel, with only a ~2% change in the flux scale. Further testing will build confidence in the method, and we plan to include it in the processing templates for more Survey Science Teams in 2025. (Image credit: Matthew Whiting)