JADE-1209
             (Japanese Dynamic Earth observation by VLBI)
                           2012 september 13-14           
                 Notes prepared by YM
                Geospatial Information Authority of Japan


Session JD1209
Start 2012-257 02:00:00 september 13
End   2012-258 01:55:08 september 14
Stations

Duration:      24 hours
Correlator:    TSUKUBA(GSI)
 
PURPOSE
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The purpose of the JADE sessions is to monitor the plate motion and 
the local crustal movement around Japan. 
In 2012 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

SCHEDULE
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This schedule was made by YM using sked. 

Schedule setup parameters:
   Early start                     0 sec 
   Corr. tape sync time            0 sec 
   Minimum scan length             90 sec 
   Maximum scan length             480 sec
 Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans
     X-band (margin   3)     S-band (margin   0)
     Ts          Ts  
 S3  20      S3  15

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 0 of ranked scans for selection, 
   consider the last 0 hour of scans for sky coverage calculations,
   minimum : 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               seconds
   Median SNR                        25 at X-band
                                     20 at S-band
   Number of observations           297 observations
   Average scans per station         scans

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

Chann#   Band    Skyfreq(MHz)     LOfreq(MHz)
   1       x       8204.99         7680.0  
   2       x       8214.99         7680.0  
   3       x       8244.99         7680.0  
   4       x       8304.99         7680.0  
   5       x       8414.99         7680.0  
   6       x       8494.99         7680.0  
   7       x       8544.99         7680.0  
   8       x       8564.99         7680.0  
   9       s       2232.99         1600.0  
  10       s       2240.99         1600.0  
  11       s       2256.99         1600.0  
  12       s       2312.99         1600.0  
  13       s       2344.99         1600.0  
  14       s       2352.99         1600.0  
 
APPENDIX
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   SKED Summary from file /home/sked/skd_files/jd1209b.skd for experiment JD1209  

      (all scans with at least one subnet station)


 Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) =   5.9
 Min =    0.0  Max =   30.9 (Baseline Ts-S3 on 0727-115)   RMS =   9.0

 Total time:       1438 minutes (  24.0 hours).

 Key:     Ts=TSUKUB32   S3=SINTOTU3
                   Ts   S3  Avg  
 % obs. time:      74   74   74
 % cal. time:       2    2    2
 % slew time:      16   22   19
 % idle time:       8    1    5
 total # scans:   297  297  297
 # scans/hour :    12   12   12
 Avg scan (sec):  215  215  215
 # data tracks:    16   16
 # Mk5 tracks:     16   16
 Total GBytes:   1149 1149 1149
 Total GB(M5):   1022 1022 1022
 # of tapes :     1.0  1.0
 tape change times (hhmm):
                                                                                                                                                                
Total number of tapes:   2.0  Total GBytes (M5) recorded:  2043.5
      # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE 
  |  Ts   S3  StnTotal
--------------------
Ts|      297     297      
S3|              297      


 Number of  2-station scans:  297

 Total # of scans, observations:   297      297