JADE-0206
             (Japanese Dynamic Earth observation by VLBI)
                           2002 Oct. 23-24           
                 Notes prepared by Shinobu Kurihara
                Geographical Survey Institute, Japan

Nominal Start: 05:00 U.T. on Oct.23 (day 296)
Source      Start      DURATIONS
name     yyddd-hhmmss  Ts  Ai  Cc  S3
4C39.25  02296-050000|  70  70|

Nominal Stop : 04:56 U.T. on Oct.24 (day 297)
Source      Start      DURATIONS
name     yyddd-hhmmss  Ts  Ai  Cc  S3
1308+326 02297-045110| 260 260|


Duration:      24 hours
Correlator:    TSUKUBA(GSI)
 
PURPOSE
=======
The purpose of the JADE sessions is to monitor the plate motion and 
the local crustal movement around Japan via 6 times sessions a year. 

NETWORK
=======
The standard configuration of the JADE projests consists of 
four stations. Shintotsukawa cannot participate winter season session.

          1 letter  2 letter
Station:     Code     Code   # of tapes    # of obs 
Tsukuba       T        Ts     12 (K4)       286 
Shintotsukawa J        S3     12 (K4)       286

SCHEDULE
========
This schedule was made by S. Kurihara using sked. 

Schedule setup parameters:
   Early start                           30 sec 
   Minimum scan length                   70 sec 
   Maximum scan length                   764 sec
   Minimum SNR                           20 at X-band (margin 3)
                                         15 at S-band (margin 3)

Automatic scheduling setup: 
   optimize for uniform sky coverage at all stations,
   maximize the number of observations,
   minimize slewing time, 
   minimize time between scans, 
   consider the top 20% of ranked scans for selection, 
   consider the last 4 hour of scans for sky coverage calculations,
   minimum 30 min between scans on the same source.

The characteristics of the generated schedule are listed below. 
These will vary slightly for each schedule that is generated. 

Schedule characteristics:
   Average scan length              217 seconds
   Median SNR                       25.0 at X-band
                                    20.0 at S-band
   Number of observations           784 observations
   Average scans per station        286 scans


FREQUENCY SEQUENCE      
==================

  Name  Code
K4-16SX  K4
Recording mode setup for:
   TSUKUB32 SINTOTU3
  Mode      Tot.Rate     Tot.BandW   #chan #bits  Barrel
  C        128.000 Mbits  64.000 MHz   16   1     NONE
  Chan.BW  #Subpasses  Tracks(*fan)  Tot.tracks  Speed
  4.00 MHz      1          0(*0)         0       211.90 mm/s
  X-band  spanned bw=   360.0 MHz       rms spanned bw=   140.2 MHz
  S-band  spanned bw=   115.0 MHz       rms spanned bw=    42.8 MHz
  Effective number of channels recorded per sub-pass
         X         S       Total
          8.000     8.000    16.000

 1 X 8209.99 MHz
 2 X 8219.99 MHz
 3 X 8249.99 MHz
 4 X 8309.99 MHz
 5 X 8419.99 MHz
 6 X 8499.99 MHz
 7 X 8549.99 MHz
 8 X 8569.99 MHz
 9 S 2219.99 MHz
10 S 2224.99 MHz
11 S 2239.99 MHz
12 S 2269.99 MHz
13 S 2299.99 MHz
14 S 2309.99 MHz
15 S 2324.99 MHz
16 S 2334.99 MHz

APPENDIX
========

 Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) =   5.0
 Min =    .0   Max =   26.7 (Baseline Ts-S3 on 1741-038)   RMS =   7.6

 Total time:       1435 minutes ( 23.9 hours).

 Key:     Ts=TSUKUB32   S3=SINTOTU3

                  Ts   S3   Avg
 % obs. time:      72   72   72
 % cal. time:       3    3    3
 % slew time:      11   21   16
 % idle time:      12    3    7
 total # scans:   286  286  286
 # scans/hour :    11   11 11.9
 Avg scan (sec):  217  217  217
 Total GBytes:   1275 1275 1275
 # of tapes :    12.0 12.0
 tape change times (hhmm):
                 0704 0704
                 0907 0907
                 1105 1105
                 1306 1306
                 1505 1505
                 1705 1705
                 1906 1906
                 2107 2107
                 2307 2307
                 0102 0102
                 0258 0258

      # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE

   | Ts  S3   StnTotal
 ----------------------
 Ts|286 286      286
 S3|    286      286

 Number of  2-station scans:  286

 Total # of scans, observations:   286     286