If DCCs have been used to log Tsys, the logs need converting from binary to ascii format and then transferred to pcfs42 for final processing. If xplot has been used, the log is in ascii format but needs a small amount of editing before sending off. Below are instructions on retrieving and processing both formats. In either case, the desired final format is that required by the ANTAB task in the VLBI processing package AIPS. Here is a detailed description of the format. It should look like this:
TSYS TID FT=1.0 TIMEOFF=0 INDEX='L1|L2' / !xplot Log: IF1, Wed Nov 15 12:40:08 2006 (UTC) !DOY UTC Sys_Temp (K) Gain (K/uW) Load_Temp (K) Linearity 322 09:20:00 20.1636 322 09:20:01 20.1706 322 09:20:02 20.1775 322 09:20:03 20.1775 322 09:20:04 20.1775 . . . 322 18:26:07 19.3913 322 18:26:08 19.3217 322 18:26:09 19.3217 /
The first line says it's a Tsys log, the antenna is Tid, the Tsys values should be scaled by 1.0 (in some cases a scale factor other than 1 might be needed if the Tsys values need scaling), that the time tags are to be offset by 0 sec (if the EAC had a clock offset, this might need to be non-zero), and that the Tsys data apply to both LCP channels. Lines beginning with a “!” are comments. The data columns are day number, time (in UT) and Tsys (in K). The last line should be a slash.
The name of the final file should be <experiment_name>ti.antab
, e.g v209ati.antab
.
Xplot logs are written to eac40 in the ~/logs directory. The format is already in ANTAB format, but the header and trailing slash should be added. If the log has a time offset include it in the TIMEOFF parameter (see the Before the Track section. If the Tsys needs scaling then the FT value should be changed.
(these notes provided by Leigh Cameron)
(or via ssh to a dcc then to dmt1)
/home/ops/ra
directory: cd ra
scp dccx-r:/home/ops/logs/dcc/dccx_rrplog.nnn .
There will be one of these log files for each dcc used (x
) and for each part of a day the pass spanned (nnn
). All logs except the current one will have been gzip'ed, i.e. have a .gz extension to unzip them, do
gunzip dccx_rrplog.nnn.gz
./`LogUtilRcvCvtPerf -t aaaaaa -c bbbbbb -i dccx_rrplog.nnn -car | ./Extract_SNTs » experimentname.dccx.snt.log
aaaaaa
is the start time in UT as six digits, bbbbbb
is the duration in seconds. Make sure to do the lowest nnn
files first, so that the results are concatenated in order.
more experimentname.dccx.snt.log
cd /tmp
scp dmt1:ra/experimentname.dccx.snt.log .
then on pcfs42:
scp dcc1:/tmp/experimentname.dccx.snt.log .
Transfer the DCC log to pcfs42. It can now be converted into ANTAB format: ~/bin/process_dcc_snt.pl [input_file] > [output_file] The output file now needs a header and footer the same as the xplot log.