JADE-1009
             (Japanese Dynamic Earth observation by VLBI)
                           2010 September 29-30
                 Notes prepared by skuri@gsi.go.jp
             Geospatial Information Authority of Japan


Session JD1009  
Start 2010-272 18:00:00 SEP. 29
End   2010-273 17:58:41 SEP. 30
Stations     2
S3  SINTOTU3  J
Kb  KASHIM34  O

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. 
In 2010 fiscal year, JADE session will be carried out once a month. 

NETWORK
=======
The standard configuration of the JADE projests consists of 
some stations. 

Code : Station
  S3     SINTOTU3
  Kb     KASHIM34 

SCHEDULE
========
This schedule was made by skuri@gsi.go.jp using sked. 

 Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans
     X-band (margin   3)     S-band (margin   0)
     S3          S3  
 Kb  20      Kb  15

List major commands and options
 Subnet S3Kb
 SkyCov             Yes
 AllBlGood          No 
 MinAngle           15
 MinBetween         20
 MinSunDist         15
 MaxSlewTime       300
 TimeWindow          8.00
 MinSubNetSize       2
 NumSubNet           1
 Best               60
 FillIn            Yes
 FillMinSub          2
 FillMinTime       120
 FillBest           80
 Add_ps             30.0
 SNRWts            Yes

Schedule characteristics:
   Average scan length              272 seconds
   Median SNR                        35 at X-band
                                     25 at S-band
   Number of observations           2071 observations
   Average scans per station        199 scans

FREQUENCY SETUP
==================

Recording mode setup for:
  SINTOTU3 KASHIM34 
  Mode      Tot.Rate      Tot.BandW  #chan #bits  Barrel
 Mk341:1   128.000 Mbits   64.000 MHz   14   1     NONE
  Chan.BW  #Subpasses  Tracks(*fan)  Tot.tracks  Speed
  4.00 MHz      1         16(*1)        16       0.00
  X-band spanned bw=   360.0 MHz       rms spanned bw=   140.2 MHz
  S-band spanned bw=   120.0 MHz       rms spanned bw=    48.8 MHz
  Effective number of channels recorded per sub-pass
          X         S         Total
         10.000     6.000    16.000
 
APPENDIX
========

   SKED Summary from file /home/sked/skd_files/jd1009.skd for experiment JD1009  

      (all scans with at least one subnet station)


 Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) =  10.9
 Min =    0.0  Max =   30.2 (Baseline S3-Kb on OJ287   )   RMS =   9.5

 Total time:       1440 minutes (  24.0 hours).

 Key:     S3=SINTOTU3   Kb=KASHIM34
                   S3   Kb  Avg  
 % obs. time:      70   70   70
 % cal. time:       1    1    1
 % slew time:      19   27   23
 % idle time:       9    1    6
 total # scans:   198  198  198
 # scans/hour :     8    8    8
 Avg scan (sec):  305  305  304
 # data tracks:    16   16
 # Mk5 tracks:     16   16
 Total GBytes:   1087 1087 1087
 Total GB(M5):    966  966  966
 # of tapes :     1.0  1.0
 tape change times (hhmm):
                                                                                                                                                                
Total number of tapes:   2.0  Total GBytes (M5) recorded:  1931.8
      # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE 
  |  S3   Kb  StnTotal
--------------------
S3|      198     198      
Kb|              198      


 Number of  2-station scans:  198

 Total # of scans, observations:   198      198