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2024 October

Daily observation notes published from the eovsadata canonical log.

October 01

Observer: Owen Giersch

Solar activity: Solar activity is moderate.

Calibrations

Start (UT) Duration (min) Antennas Details
12:52 79 1-2, 4-6, 8-13 Successful Reference calibration for all bands. Analysis written to SQL @2024-10-01 13:17.
17:14 16 1-2, 4-6, 8-13 Successful Phase calibration. Analysis written to SQL.
22:14 16 1-2, 4-6, 8-13 Successful Phase calibration. Analysis written to SQL.
02:53 (02 Oct) 60 1-2, 4-6, 8-12 Successful Phase calibration. Analysis written to SQL.

Issues and outages

Time (UT) Antennas Details
00:00–23:59 3 Ant 3 has no HPOL optical power, FEM currently in the lab.; Ant3 HPOL Optical link failure. FEM in the Lab.
4 Ant 4 FE Temp is sometimes out of range--no solution yet.
5 Ant 5 has low VPOL power probably due to DCM issue
00:00–23:59 7 Ant 7 VPOL Optical link failure, FEM currently in the lab.; Ant7 VPOL Optical link failure. FEM in the Lab.
10 Ant10 HPol temp reads 1800 (bad signal on interface board)
13 Ant13 signal was moved to "new" DCM for testing in the afternoon.

Events

X-Flare Occured

Antenna availability: automatic assessment.

October 02

Observer: Caius Selhorst

Solar activity: Solar activity is moderate.

Calibrations

Start (UT) Duration (min) Antennas Details
02:28 (Oct 03) 79 1-2, 4, 6, 8-13 Successful Reference calibration for bands < 40. Analysis written to SQL @2024-10-02 11:00.
17:14 16 1-2, 4, 6, 8-13 Successful Phase calibration. Analysis written to SQL.
22:14 16 1-2, 4, 6, 8-13 Successful Phase calibration. Analysis written to SQL.

Issues and outages

Time (UT) Antennas Details
00:00–23:59 3 Ant 3 has no HPOL optical power, FEM currently in the lab.; Ant3 HPOL Optical link failure. FEM in the Lab.
4 Ant 4 FE Temp is sometimes out of range--no solution yet.
5 Ant 5 has low VPOL power probably due to DCM issue
00:00–23:59 7 Ant 7 VPOL Optical link failure, FEM currently in the lab.; Ant7 VPOL Optical link failure. FEM in the Lab.
10 Ant10 HPol temp reads 1800 (bad signal on interface board)
13 Ant13 signal was still plugged into "new" DCM for testing in the morning. / Testing of DCM was done instead of morning refcal / Additional testing done from 17:30-17:55 UT

Antenna availability: automatic assessment.

October 03

Observer: Caius Selhorst

Solar activity: Solar activity is moderate.

Calibrations

Start (UT) Duration (min) Antennas Details
12:44 79 1-2, 4-6, 8-13 Successful Reference calibration for all bands. Analysis written to SQL @2024-10-03 13:09.
02:45 (Oct 4) 60 1-2, 4, 8-13 Successful Phase calibration. Analysis written to SQL.

Issues and outages

Time (UT) Antennas Details
00:00–23:59 3 Ant 3 has no HPOL optical power, FEM currently in the lab.; Ant3 HPOL Optical link failure. FEM in the Lab.
4 Ant 4 FE Temp is sometimes out of range--no solution yet.
5 Ant 5 has low VPOL power probably due to DCM issue
00:00–23:59 7 Ant 7 VPOL Optical link failure, FEM currently in the lab.; Ant7 VPOL Optical link failure. FEM in the Lab.
10 Ant10 HPol temp reads 1800 (bad signal on interface board)
More testing of the new DCM early today (did not affect refcal).
5 Ant 5 was not tracking until 13:33 UT (required rebooting).
5 Ant 5 was not rebooted again at 19:25 UT.

Antenna availability: automatic assessment.

October 04

Observer: Caius Selhorst

Solar activity: Solar activity is high.

Calibrations

Start (UT) Duration (min) Antennas Details
02:41 (Oct 05) 79 1-2, 4, 8-13 Successful Reference calibration for bands < 41. Analysis written to SQL @2024-10-04 13:09.

Issues and outages

Time (UT) Antennas Details
00:00–23:59 3 Ant 3 has no HPOL optical power, FEM currently in the lab.; Ant3 HPOL Optical link failure. FEM in the Lab.
4 Ant 4 FE Temp is sometimes out of range--no solution yet.
5 Ant 5 has low VPOL power probably due to DCM issue
00:00–23:59 7 Ant 7 VPOL Optical link failure, FEM currently in the lab.; Ant7 VPOL Optical link failure. FEM in the Lab.
10 Ant10 HPol temp reads 1800 (bad signal on interface board)
5 Ant5 Axis Lock rebooted at 20:09 UT

Antenna availability: automatic assessment.

October 05

Observer: Owen Giersch

Solar activity: Solar activity is moderate.

Calibrations

Start (UT) Duration (min) Antennas Details
12:57 79 1-2, 4, 8-13 Successful Reference calibration for all bands. Analysis written to SQL @2024-10-05 13:01.
17:14 16 1-2, 4, 8-13 Successful Phase calibration. Analysis written to SQL.
22:14 16 1-2, 4, 8-13 Successful Phase calibration. Analysis written to SQL.
02:37 (06 Oct) 60 2, 8-13 Successful Phase calibration. Analysis written to SQL.

Issues and outages

Time (UT) Antennas Details
00:00–23:59 3 Ant 3 has no HPOL optical power, FEM currently in the lab.; Ant3 HPOL Optical link failure. FEM in the Lab.
4 Ant 4 FE Temp is sometimes out of range--no solution yet.
5 Ant 5 has low VPOL power probably due to DCM issue
00:00–23:59 7 Ant 7 VPOL Optical link failure, FEM currently in the lab.; Ant7 VPOL Optical link failure. FEM in the Lab.
10 Ant10 HPol temp reads 1800 (bad signal on interface board)
5 Ant5 Axis Lock rebooted at 18:48 UT. Greased gears and adjusted tension at / 19:51UT
5 Ant5 will not sync at 20:12UT

Antenna availability: automatic assessment.

October 06

Observer: Caius Selhorst

Solar activity: Solar activity is moderate.

Calibrations

Start (UT) Duration (min) Antennas Details
02:33 79 (Oct 07) 1-2, 4, 8-13 Successful Reference calibration for bands < 40. Analysis written to SQL @2024-10-06 11:00.
17:14 16 1-2, 4, 8-13 Successful Phase calibration. Analysis written to SQL.
22:14 16 1-2, 4, 8-13 Successful Phase calibration. Analysis written to SQL.

Issues and outages

Time (UT) Antennas Details
00:00–23:59 3 Ant 3 has no HPOL optical power, FEM currently in the lab.; Ant3 HPOL Optical link failure. FEM in the Lab.
4 Ant 4 FE Temp is sometimes out of range--no solution yet.
5 Ant 5 has low VPOL power probably due to DCM issue
00:00–23:59 7 Ant 7 VPOL Optical link failure, FEM currently in the lab.; Ant7 VPOL Optical link failure. FEM in the Lab.
10 Ant10 HPol temp reads 1800 (bad signal on interface board)
1 and 4 15:00 Ant1 and 4 had Az axis lock.

Antenna availability: automatic assessment.

October 07

Observer: Caius Selhorst

Solar activity: Solar activity is moderate.

Calibrations

Start (UT) Duration (min) Antennas Details
02:08 79 (Oct 08) 1-2, 4-6, 8-13 Successful Reference calibration for bands < 40. Analysis written to SQL @2024-10-07 11:00.
12:49 60 1-2, 4, 8-13 Successful Phase calibration. Analysis written to SQL.
17:14 16 1-2, 4, 8-13 Successful Phase calibration. Analysis written to SQL.

Issues and outages

Time (UT) Antennas Details
00:00–23:59 3 Ant 3 has no HPOL optical power, FEM currently in the lab.; Ant3 HPOL Optical link failure. FEM in the Lab.
4 Ant 4 FE Temp is sometimes out of range--no solution yet.
5 Ant 5 has low VPOL power probably due to DCM issue
00:00–23:59 7 Ant 7 VPOL Optical link failure, FEM currently in the lab.; Ant7 VPOL Optical link failure. FEM in the Lab.
10 Ant10 HPol temp reads 1800 (bad signal on interface board)
Skipped 22:10 Calibration due to high activity.

Antenna availability: automatic assessment.

October 08

Observer: Owen Giersch

Solar activity: Solar activity is moderate.

Calibrations

Start (UT) Duration (min) Antennas Details
12:45 79 1-2, 4-6, 8-13 Successful Reference calibration for all bands. Analysis written to SQL @2024-10-08 12:49.
17:14 16 1-2, 4-6, 8-13 Successful Phase calibration. Analysis written to SQL.
22:14 16 1-2, 4-6, 8-13 Successful Phase calibration. Analysis written to SQL.
02:25 (09 Oct) 60 1-2, 4-6, 8-13 Successful Phase calibration. Analysis written to SQL.

Issues and outages

Time (UT) Antennas Details
00:00–23:59 3 Ant 3 has no HPOL optical power, FEM currently in the lab.; Ant3 HPOL Optical link failure. FEM in the Lab.
4 Ant 4 FE Temp is sometimes out of range--no solution yet.
5 Ant 5 has low VPOL power probably due to DCM issue
00:00–23:59 7 Ant 7 VPOL Optical link failure, FEM currently in the lab.; Ant7 VPOL Optical link failure. FEM in the Lab.
10 Ant10 HPol temp reads 1800 (bad signal on interface board)

Antenna availability: automatic assessment.

October 09

Observer: Caius Selhorst

Solar activity: Solar activity is moderate.

Calibrations

Start (UT) Duration (min) Antennas Details
12:20 79 1-2, 4-6, 8-13 Successful Reference calibration for all bands. Analysis written to SQL @2024-10-09 12:45.
17:14 16 1-2, 4-6, 8-13 Successful Phase calibration. Analysis written to SQL.
22:14 16 1-2, 4-6, 8-13 Successful Phase calibration. Analysis written to SQL.
02:21 (10 Oct) 16 1-2, 4-6, 8-13 Successful Phase calibration. Analysis written to SQL.

Issues and outages

Time (UT) Antennas Details
00:00–23:59 3 Ant 3 has no HPOL optical power, FEM currently in the lab.; Ant3 HPOL Optical link failure. FEM in the Lab.
4 Ant 4 FE Temp is sometimes out of range--no solution yet.
5 Ant 5 has low VPOL power probably due to DCM issue
00:00–23:59 7 Ant 7 VPOL Optical link failure, FEM currently in the lab.; Ant7 VPOL Optical link failure. FEM in the Lab.
10 Ant10 HPol temp reads 1800 (bad signal on interface board)
Doing DCM tests after the refcal completed. No loss of cal or solar data.

Antenna availability: automatic assessment.

October 10

Observer: Caius Selhorst

Solar activity: Solar activity is moderate.

Calibrations

Start (UT) Duration (min) Antennas Details
12:16 79 1-2, 4-6, 8-13 Successful Reference calibration for all bands. Analysis written to SQL @2024-10-10 12:41.
17:14 16 1-2, 4-6, 8-13 Successful Phase calibration. Analysis written to SQL.
02:17 (11 Oct) 60 1-2, 4-6, 8-13 Successful Phase calibration. Analysis written to SQL.

Issues and outages

Time (UT) Antennas Details
00:00–23:59 3 Ant3 HPOL Optical link failure. FEM in the Lab.
00:00–23:59 7 Ant7 VPOL Optical link failure. FEM in the Lab.

Antenna availability: automatic assessment.

October 11

Observer: Caius Selhorst

Solar activity: Solar activity is moderate.

Calibrations

Start (UT) Duration (min) Antennas Details
12:12 79 1-2, 4-6, 8-13 Successful Reference calibration for all bands. Analysis written to SQL @2024-10-11 12:37.
17:14 16 1-2, 4-6, 8-13 Successful Phase calibration. Analysis written to SQL.
02:13 (12 Oct) 60 1-2, 4-6, 8-13 Successful Phase calibration. Analysis written to SQL.

Issues and outages

Time (UT) Antennas Details
00:00–23:59 3 Ant3 HPOL Optical link failure. FEM in the Lab.
00:00–23:59 7 Ant7 VPOL Optical link failure. FEM in the Lab.

Antenna availability: automatic assessment.

October 12

Observer: Caius Selhorst

Solar activity: Solar activity is moderate.

Calibrations

Start (UT) Duration (min) Antennas Details
01:48 (13 Oct) 79 1-2, 4-6, 8-13 Successful Reference calibration for bands < 40. Analysis written to SQL @2024-10-12 11:00.
22:14 16 1-2, 4-6, 8-13 Successful Phase calibration. Analysis written to SQL.

Issues and outages

Time (UT) Antennas Details
00:00–23:59 3 Ant 3 has no HPOL optical power, FEM currently in the lab.; Ant3 HPOL Optical link failure. FEM in the Lab.
4 Ant 4 FE Temp is sometimes out of range--no solution yet.
5 Ant 5 has low VPOL power probably due to DCM issue
00:00–23:59 7 Ant 7 VPOL Optical link failure, FEM currently in the lab.; Ant7 VPOL Optical link failure. FEM in the Lab.
10 Ant10 HPol temp reads 1800 (bad signal on interface board)
Problems this morning with ACC. No refcals. Also, Ant 8 FEM is down. / Hmm, Ant 13 FEM is also down at 14:40 UT, but it was not just a few min ago. / Sun scan started strangely, with wrong coords for pointing. Fixed at 15:10 UT.
Ant8 came back with the command (bscram-clear ant8) at 15:27 UT

Antenna availability: automatic assessment.

October 13

Observer: Caius Selhorst

Solar activity: Solar activity is moderate.

Calibrations

Start (UT) Duration (min) Antennas Details
01:48 (14 Oct) 79 1-2, 4-6, 8-13 Successful Reference calibration for bands < 40. Analysis written to SQL @2024-10-13 11:00.
17:14 16 1-2, 4-6, 9-13 Successful Phase calibration. Analysis written to SQL.
22:14 16 1-2, 4-6, 8-13 Successful Phase calibration. Analysis written to SQL.

Issues and outages

Time (UT) Antennas Details
00:00–23:59 3 Ant3 HPOL Optical link failure. FEM in the Lab.
00:00–23:59 7 Ant7 VPOL Optical link failure. FEM in the Lab.

Observations

Imported source block (date does not match record 2024-10-13)

Tohban notes for Oct 12:

Ant 3 has no HPOL optical power, FEM currently in the lab.
Ant 4 FE Temp is sometimes out of range--no solution yet.
Ant 5 has low VPOL power probably due to DCM issue
Ant 7 VPOL Optical link failure, FEM currently in the lab.
Ant10 HPol temp reads 1800 (bad signal on interface board)

Report problems here:
Ant1 didn't start correctly. It's rebooted at 15:00 UT

Antenna availability: automatic assessment.

October 14

Observer: Caius Selhorst

Solar activity: Solar activity is moderate.

Calibrations

Start (UT) Duration (min) Antennas Details
12:00 79 1-2, 4-6, 8-11, 13 Successful Reference calibration for all bands. Analysis written to SQL @2024-10-14 12:25.
17:14 16 1-2, 4-6, 8-11, 13 Successful Phase calibration. Analysis written to SQL.

Issues and outages

Time (UT) Antennas Details
00:00–23:59 3 Ant 3 has no HPOL optical power, FEM currently in the lab.; Ant3 HPOL Optical link failure. FEM in the Lab.
4 Ant 4 FE Temp is sometimes out of range--no solution yet.
5 Ant 5 has low VPOL power probably due to DCM issue
00:00–23:59 7 Ant 7 VPOL Optical link failure, FEM currently in the lab.; Ant7 VPOL Optical link failure. FEM in the Lab.
10 Ant10 HPol temp reads 1800 (bad signal on interface board)
15:28UT Ant8 CRIO locked up. Rebooted from the Viking unit. / 15:41UT Ant12 CRIO was in safemode. Performed a software reboot. / 16:10UT Rebooted Helios as a USB port would not operate correctly. / Test of Ant7 VPol FEM looks good.

Antenna availability: automatic assessment.

October 15

Observer: Caius Selhorst

Solar activity: Solar activity is moderate.

Issues and outages

Time (UT) Antennas Details
00:00–23:59 3 Ant 3 has no HPOL optical power, FEM currently in the lab.; Ant3 HPOL Optical link failure. FEM in the Lab.
4 Ant 4 FE Temp is sometimes out of range--no solution yet.
5 Ant 5 has low VPOL power probably due to DCM issue
00:00–23:59 7 Ant 7 VPOL Optical link failure, FEM currently in the lab.; Ant7 VPOL Optical link failure. FEM in the Lab.
10 Ant10 HPol temp reads 1800 (bad signal on interface board)
15:00 UT: No communication with ant8 FEM.

Observations

No calibrations. Roach 2 power supply fail.

Antenna availability: automatic assessment.

October 16

Observer: Caius Selhorst

Solar activity: Solar activity is moderate.

Issues and outages

Time (UT) Antennas Details
00:00–23:59 3 Ant 3 has no HPOL optical power, FEM currently in the lab.; Ant3 HPOL Optical link failure. FEM in the Lab.
4 Ant 4 FE Temp is sometimes out of range--no solution yet.
5 Ant 5 has low VPOL power probably due to DCM issue
00:00–23:59 7 Ant 7 VPOL Optical link failure, FEM currently in the lab.; Ant7 VPOL Optical link failure. FEM in the Lab.
10 Ant10 HPol temp reads 1800 (bad signal on interface board)
Data recording stopped at 23:22 Oct 15. Restarted with @15:21 with rmlock. / After rmlock IDB files are being saved every 10 to 20 seconds and then / recording stops. Both are caused by Roach2 failure.
8 Ant8 CRIO stopped. Restarted with $pcycle @15:30. FEM has no communications.
Ant8 and Ant13 FEMs came back around 19:00 UT, in time for calibration to / determine delays. / Phase cals to determine delays start at 19:01 UT. / Delays set crudely, but too late for refcal. No obs today.

Observations

No calibrations. Roach 2 power supply fail.

Antenna availability: automatic assessment.

October 17

Observer: Caius Selhorst

Solar activity: Solar activity is moderate.

Calibrations

Start (UT) Duration (min) Antennas Details
11:49 79 1-2, 4-6, 9-13 Successful Reference calibration for all bands. Analysis written to SQL @2024-10-17 12:14.
17:14 16 1-2, 4-6, 9-13 Successful Phase calibration. Analysis written to SQL.
22:00 16 1-2, 4-6, 9-13 Successful Phase calibration. Analysis written to SQL.

Issues and outages

Time (UT) Antennas Details
00:00–23:59 3 Ant 3 has no HPOL optical power, FEM currently in the lab.; Ant3 HPOL Optical link failure. FEM in the Lab.
4 Ant 4 FE Temp is sometimes out of range--no solution yet.
5 Ant 5 has low VPOL power probably due to DCM issue
00:00–23:59 7 Ant 7 VPOL Optical link failure, FEM currently in the lab.; Ant7 VPOL Optical link failure. FEM in the Lab.
10 Ant10 HPol temp reads 1800 (bad signal on interface board)
8 Ant8 FEM is down again. Otherwise the dealys look good.

Antenna availability: automatic assessment.

October 18

Observer: Owen Giersch No Calibration due to windscrams.

Solar activity: Solar activity is moderate.

Issues and outages

Time (UT) Antennas Details
00:00–23:59 3 Ant 3 has no HPOL optical power, FEM currently in the lab.; Ant3 HPOL Optical link failure. FEM in the Lab.
4 Ant 4 FE Temp is sometimes out of range--no solution yet.
5 Ant 5 has low VPOL power probably due to DCM issue
00:00–23:59 7 Ant 7 VPOL Optical link failure, FEM currently in the lab.; Ant7 VPOL Optical link failure. FEM in the Lab.
10 Ant10 HPol temp reads 1800 (bad signal on interface board)

Antenna availability: automatic assessment.

October 19

Observer: Owen Giersch

Solar activity: Solar activity is moderate.

Calibrations

Start (UT) Duration (min) Antennas Details
01:21 (Oct 20) 79 1-2, 4-6, 9-13 Successful Reference calibration for bands<45. Analysis written to SQL @2024-10-19 11:00.
22:14 16 2, 4-6, 9-13 Successful Phase calibration. Analysis written to SQL.

Issues and outages

Time (UT) Antennas Details
00:00–23:59 3 Ant 3 has no HPOL optical power, FEM currently in the lab.; Ant3 HPOL Optical link failure. FEM in the Lab.
4 Ant 4 FE Temp is sometimes out of range--no solution yet.
5 Ant 5 has low VPOL power probably due to DCM issue
00:00–23:59 7 Ant 7 VPOL Optical link failure, FEM currently in the lab.; Ant7 VPOL Optical link failure. FEM in the Lab.
10 Ant10 HPol temp reads 1800 (bad signal on interface board)
8 15:00UT Ant8 CRIO was in safemode, restarted at 15:30UT. FEM has no / communications.

Antenna availability: automatic assessment.

October 20

Observer: Owen Giersch

Solar activity: Solar activity is moderate.

Calibrations

Start (UT) Duration (min) Antennas Details
01:17 (Oct 21) 79 1-2, 4-6, 8-13 Successful Reference calibration for bands < 40. Analysis written to SQL @2024-10-20 11:00.
11:58 60 1-2, 4-6, 9-13 Successful Phase calibration. Analysis written to SQL.
17:14 16 1-2, 4-6, 9-13 Successful Phase calibration. Analysis written to SQL.
22:14 16 1-2, 4-6, 8-13 Successful Phase calibration. Analysis written to SQL.

Issues and outages

Time (UT) Antennas Details
00:00–23:59 3 Ant 3 has no HPOL optical power, FEM currently in the lab.; Ant3 HPOL Optical link failure. FEM in the Lab.
4 Ant 4 FE Temp is sometimes out of range--no solution yet.
5 Ant 5 has low VPOL power probably due to DCM issue
00:00–23:59 7 Ant 7 VPOL Optical link failure, FEM currently in the lab.; Ant7 VPOL Optical link failure. FEM in the Lab.
10 Ant10 HPol temp reads 1800 (bad signal on interface board)
8 15:00UT Ant8 CRIO was in safemode, restarted at 15:30UT. FEM has no / communications.

Antenna availability: automatic assessment.

October 21

Observer: Owen Giersch

Solar activity: Solar activity is moderate.

Calibrations

Start (UT) Duration (min) Antennas Details
01:13 (Oct 22) 79 1-2, 4-6, 8-13 Successful Reference calibration for bands < 40. Analysis written to SQL @2024-10-21 11:00.
11:54 60 1-2, 4-6, 9-13 Successful Phase calibration. Analysis written to SQL.
17:14 16 1-2, 4-6, 8-10, 12-13 Successful Phase calibration. Analysis written to SQL.

Issues and outages

Time (UT) Antennas Details
00:00–23:59 3 Ant 3 has no HPOL optical power, FEM currently in the lab.; Ant3 HPOL Optical link failure. FEM in the Lab.
4 Ant 4 FE Temp is sometimes out of range--no solution yet.
5 Ant 5 has low VPOL power probably due to DCM issue
00:00–23:59 7 Ant 7 VPOL Optical link failure, FEM currently in the lab.; Ant7 VPOL Optical link failure. FEM in the Lab.
10 Ant10 HPol temp reads 1800 (bad signal on interface board)
8 15:00UT Ant8 FEM Off/Down, But antenna tracking. / pcycling FEM didn't appear to help. Owen will inspect. / This was a hardware fault with the Finder Unit. I have replaced it and
Ant8 FEM is now working. / 16:30UT-17:15UT Ant11 Temp is acting up, Both sides running hot, / tec$bc-ed twice - Second one seems to have stuck

Antenna availability: automatic assessment.

October 22

Observer: Owen Giersch

Solar activity: Solar activity is moderate.

Calibrations

Start (UT) Duration (min) Antennas Details
11:29 79 1-2, 4-6, 8-13 Successful Reference calibration for all bands. Analysis written to SQL @2024-10-22 11:54.
22:14 16 1-2, 4-6, 8-13 Successful Phase calibration. Analysis written to SQL.
01:30 60 1-2, 4-6, 8-13 Successful Phase calibration. Analysis written to SQL.

Issues and outages

Time (UT) Antennas Details
00:00–23:59 3 Ant 3 has no HPOL optical power, FEM currently in the lab.; Ant3 HPOL Optical link failure. FEM in the Lab.
4 Ant 4 FE Temp is sometimes out of range--no solution yet.
5 Ant 5 has low VPOL power probably due to DCM issue
00:00–23:59 7 Ant 7 VPOL Optical link failure, FEM currently in the lab.; Ant7 VPOL Optical link failure. FEM in the Lab.
10 Ant10 HPol temp reads 1800 (bad signal on interface board)
13 16:45UT- Ant13 FEM issue, nan/nan/0.0C, didn't respond to pcycle fem. / Restarted the Viking FEM solved the problem at 17:46 UT

Antenna availability: automatic assessment.

October 23

Observer: Owen Giersch

Solar activity: Solar activity is moderate.

Calibrations

Start (UT) Duration (min) Antennas Details
11:25 79 1-2, 4-6, 8-13 Successful Reference calibration for all bands. Analysis written to SQL @2024-10-23 11:50.
17:14 16 1-2, 4-6, 8-13 Successful Phase calibration. Analysis written to SQL.
22:14 60 1-2, 4-6, 8-13 Successful Phase calibration. Analysis written to SQL.
01:26 (Oct 24) 60 1-2, 4-6, 8-13 Successful Phase calibration. Analysis written to SQL.

Issues and outages

Time (UT) Antennas Details
00:00–23:59 3 Ant 3 has no HPOL optical power, FEM currently in the lab.; Ant3 HPOL Optical link failure. FEM in the Lab.
4 Ant 4 FE Temp is sometimes out of range--no solution yet.
5 Ant 5 has low VPOL power probably due to DCM issue
7 Ant 7 VPOL Optical link failure, FEM currently in the lab.
10 Ant10 HPol temp reads 1800 (bad signal on interface board)
7 15:30UT: Fixed ant7 DCM. The rs432 cables were not connected. However DCM / power is very high.
00:00–23:59 7 Ant7 DCM or ADC fault.

Antenna availability: automatic assessment.

October 24

Observer: Owen Giersch

Solar activity: Solar activity is moderate.

Calibrations

Start (UT) Duration (min) Antennas Details
11:21 79 1-2, 4-6, 8-11, 13 Successful Reference calibration for all bands. Analysis written to SQL @2024-10-24 11:46.
17:14 16 1-2, 4-6, 8-11, 13 Successful Phase calibration. Analysis written to SQL.
22:14 60 1-2, 4-6, 8-11, 13 Successful Phase calibration. Analysis written to SQL.
01:26 (Oct 24) 60 1-2, 4-6, 8-13 Successful Phase calibration. Analysis written to SQL.

Issues and outages

Time (UT) Antennas Details
00:00–23:59 3 Ant 3 has no HPOL optical power, FEM currently in the lab.; Ant3 HPOL Optical link failure. FEM in the Lab.
4 Ant 4 FE Temp is sometimes out of range--no solution yet.
5 Ant 5 has low VPOL power probably due to DCM issue
7 Ant 7 VPOL Optical link failure, FEM currently in the lab.
10 Ant10 HPol temp reads 1800 (bad signal on interface board)
12 16:30UT: Ant12 CRIO was in safemode.
00:00–23:59 7 Ant7 DCM or ADC fault.

Antenna availability: automatic assessment.

October 25

Observer: Caius Selhorst

Solar activity: Solar activity is moderate.

Calibrations

Start (UT) Duration (min) Antennas Details
00:57 (Oct 26) 79 1-2, 4-6, 8-13 Successful Reference calibration for bands < 40. Analysis written to SQL @2024-10-25 11:00.
11:38 60 1-2, 4-6, 8-12 Successful Phase calibration. Analysis written to SQL.
17:14 16 1-2, 4-6, 8-12 Successful Phase calibration. Analysis written to SQL.
22:14 16 1-2, 4-6, 8-12 Successful Phase calibration. Analysis written to SQL.

Issues and outages

Time (UT) Antennas Details
00:00–23:59 3 Ant3 HPOL Optical link failure. FEM in the Lab.
00:00–23:59 7 Ant7 DCM or ADC fault.

Antenna availability: automatic assessment.

October 26

Observer: Caius Selhorst

Solar activity: Solar activity is moderate.

Calibrations

Start (UT) Duration (min) Antennas Details
11:34 60 1-2, 4-6, 8-13 Successful Reference calibration for bands \> 7. Analysis written to SQL @2024-10-26 11:38.
17:14 16 1-2, 4-6, 8-13 Successful Phase calibration. Analysis written to SQL.
22:14 16 1-2, 4-6, 8-13 Successful Phase calibration. Analysis written to SQL.
01:14 (Oct 27) 60 1-2, 4-6, 8-13 Successful Phase calibration. Analysis written to SQL.

Issues and outages

Time (UT) Antennas Details
00:00–23:59 3 Ant 3 has no HPOL optical power, FEM currently in the lab.; Ant3 HPOL Optical link failure. FEM in the Lab.
4 Ant 4 FE Temp is sometimes out of range--no solution yet.
5 Ant 5 has low VPOL power probably due to DCM issue
7 Ant 7 VPOL Optical link failure, FEM currently in the lab.
10 Ant10 HPol temp reads 1800 (bad signal on interface board)
00:00–23:59 7 Ant7 DCM or ADC fault.

Antenna availability: automatic assessment.

October 27

Observer: Caius Selhorst

Solar activity: Solar activity is moderate.

Calibrations

Start (UT) Duration (min) Antennas Details
11:09 79 1-2, 4-6, 8-13 Successful Reference calibration for all bands. Analysis written to SQL @2024-10-27 11:34.
17:14 16 1-2, 4-6, 8-13 Successful Phase calibration. Analysis written to SQL.
22:14 16 1-2, 4-6, 8-13 Successful Phase calibration. Analysis written to SQL.
01:10 (Oct 28) 60 1-2, 4-6, 8-13 Successful Phase calibration. Analysis written to SQL.

Issues and outages

Time (UT) Antennas Details
00:00–23:59 3 Ant 3 has no HPOL optical power, FEM currently in the lab.; Ant3 HPOL Optical link failure. FEM in the Lab.
4 Ant 4 FE Temp is sometimes out of range--no solution yet.
5 Ant 5 has low VPOL power probably due to DCM issue
7 Ant 7 VPOL Optical link failure, FEM currently in the lab.
10 Ant10 HPol temp reads 1800 (bad signal on interface board)
00:00–23:59 7 Ant7 DCM or ADC fault.

Antenna availability: automatic assessment.

October 28

Observer: Caius Selhorst

Solar activity: Solar activity is moderate.

Calibrations

Start (UT) Duration (min) Antennas Details
11:05 60 1-2, 4-6, 8-13 Successful Reference calibration for bands \> 7. Analysis written to SQL @2024-10-28 11:30.
-- -- -- No Phase calibration. High winds during all day.

Issues and outages

Time (UT) Antennas Details
00:00–23:59 3 Ant 3 has no HPOL optical power, FEM currently in the lab.; Ant3 HPOL Optical link failure. FEM in the Lab.
4 Ant 4 FE Temp is sometimes out of range--no solution yet.
5 Ant 5 has low VPOL power probably due to DCM issue
00:00–23:59 7 Ant 7 VPOL Optical link failure, FEM currently in the lab.; Ant7 DCM or ADC fault. FEM in the Lab.
10 Ant10 HPol temp reads 1800 (bad signal on interface board)
Ant13 FEM not responding this morning. / We are doing tests of Ant7, which should affect only that antenna. / 23:00UT ACC lockup.
9 Ant9 didn't track after 23:00 UT

Antenna availability: automatic assessment.

October 29

Observer: Caius Selhorst

Solar activity: Solar activity is moderate.

Calibrations

Start (UT) Duration (min) Antennas Details
11:22 60 1-2, 4-6, 8-13 Successful Reference calibration for bands \> 7. Analysis written to SQL @2024-10-29 11:26.
-- -- -- No Phase calibration. High winds during all day.

Issues and outages

Time (UT) Antennas Details
00:00–23:59 3 Ant 3 has no HPOL optical power, FEM currently in the lab.; Ant3 HPOL Optical link failure. FEM in the Lab.
4 Ant 4 FE Temp is sometimes out of range--no solution yet.
5 Ant 5 has low VPOL power probably due to DCM issue
00:00–23:59 7 Ant 7 VPOL Optical link failure, FEM currently in the lab.; Ant7 DCM or ADC fault. FEM in the Lab.
10 Ant10 HPol temp reads 1800 (bad signal on interface board)

Antenna availability: automatic assessment.

October 30

Observer: Caius Selhorst

Solar activity: Solar activity is moderate.

Calibrations

Start (UT) Duration (min) Antennas Details
00:37 (Oct 31) 79 1-2, 4-6, 8-13 Successful Reference calibration for bands < 35. Analysis written to SQL @2024-10-30 11:00.
17:14 16 1-2, 4-6, 8-13 Successful Phase calibration. Analysis written to SQL.
22:10 16 1-2, 4-6, 8-13 Successful Phase calibration. Analysis written to SQL.

Issues and outages

Time (UT) Antennas Details
00:00–23:59 3 Ant 3 has no HPOL optical power, FEM currently in the lab.; Ant3 HPOL Optical link failure. FEM in the Lab.
4 Ant 4 FE Temp is sometimes out of range--no solution yet.
5 Ant 5 has low VPOL power probably due to DCM issue
00:00–23:59 7 Ant 7 VPOL Optical link failure, FEM currently in the lab.; Ant7 DCM or ADC fault. FEM in the Lab.
10 Ant10 HPol temp reads 1800 (bad signal on interface board)
Checking after the refcal, I found the ACC was locked up. / Power-cycled @14:20 UT / ACC restart @ 22:50. Antennas were not tracking.

Antenna availability: automatic assessment.

October 31

Observer: Caius Selhorst

Solar activity: Solar activity is moderate.

Calibrations

Start (UT) Duration (min) Antennas Details
10:54 79 1-2, 4-6, 8-13 Successful Reference calibration for all bands. Analysis written to SQL @2024-10-31 11:19.
17:14 16 1-2, 4-6, 8-13 Successful Phase calibration. Analysis written to SQL.

Issues and outages

Time (UT) Antennas Details
00:00–23:59 3 Ant 3 has no HPOL optical power, FEM currently in the lab.; Ant3 HPOL Optical link failure. FEM in the Lab.
4 Ant 4 FE Temp is sometimes out of range--no solution yet.
5 Ant 5 has low VPOL power probably due to DCM issue
00:00–23:59 7 Ant 7 VPOL Optical link failure, FEM currently in the lab.; Ant7 DCM or ADC fault. FEM in the Lab.
10 Ant10 HPol temp reads 1800 (bad signal on interface board)

Antenna availability: automatic assessment.