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Creating the Schedule File

In this step we convert the Narrabri schedule files to raw correlator schedule files for the experiment v088. These raw correlator schedule files need to be further edited, as described in Section 4.2.

From any local machine;

	telnet leon
leon$	sd at$sched
leon$	dd v088d*.*

In this example you will notice that some of the files have an 'M' in them. These are separate schedule files for the Mopra antenna. The schedules are identical to those used at the Compact Array, apart from an addition of 5 seconds to absolute UT for the ATCA schedule. This is necessary to ensure synchronisation of the recording of data.

Now we choose the file that we want to convert. In this case it will be v088d-3.sch. This was a set of observations that was scheduled to go from 1997 212/1100-213/0100.

A program called vsched will automatically generate the necessary vlbi files, and so this must be run;

leon$	run/nodebug at$run:vsched
atsched	v088d-3
atsched	enter
leon$	logout

The newly created .lba and .cat files will be in at$sched on leon. These files must be transferred from leon to elleba (to cor$sched = $DISK1:[CORR.SCHED] and cor$db = $DISK1:[CORR.DB]);

You may find that the current computer security setup is such that you are inhibited from transferring files in this fashion. The following is an alternate method.

Firstly, if you have logged off from leon you must log on to leon once again;

	telnet leon
leon$	sd at$sched

Then you must FTP elleba to enable you to copy files from leon into elleba;

leon	ftp elleba
	login	(as CORR)
	cd cor$sched
	ascii
	put v088d-3.lba v088d-3.sch
	cd cor$db
	put v088d-3.cat v088d-3.tab
	quit
leon$	lo

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Paul Jones 2003-06-13