JADE-1311
             (Japanese Dynamic Earth observation by VLBI)
                           2013 November 14-15           
                 Notes prepared by GSI
                Geospacial Information Authority of Japan


Session JD1311
Start 2013-318 02:00:00 November 14
End   2013-319 01:53:20 November 15
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 2013 fiscal year, JADE session will be carried out once a month. 

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

Code : Station

SCHEDULE
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This schedule was made by GSI using sked. 

Schedule setup parameters:
   Early start                     EA sec 
   Corr. tape sync time             sec 
   Minimum scan length              sec 
   Maximum scan length              sec
 Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans
     X-band (margin   3)     S-band (margin   3)
     Ai  Cc  Kb          Ai  Cc  Kb  
 Cc  17              Cc  15
 Kb  20  20          Kb  15  15
 S3   0   0  19      S3   0   0  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              342 seconds
   Median SNR                        20 at X-band
                                     20 at S-band
   Number of observations           1092 observations
   Average scans per station        182 scans

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

Chann#   Band    Skyfreq(MHz)     LOfreq(MHz)
 
APPENDIX
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   SKED Summary from file /opt/sked/skd_files/jd1311.skd for experiment JD1311  

      (all scans with at least one subnet station)


 Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) =   1.6
 Min =    0.0  Max =   34.6 (Baseline Ai-S3 on CTA26   )   RMS =   5.8

 Total time:       1438 minutes (  24.0 hours).

 Key:     Ai=AIRA       Cc=CHICHI10   Kb=KASHIM34   S3=SINTOTU3
                   Ai   Cc   Kb   S3  Avg  
 % obs. time:      77   77   68   68   72
 % cal. time:       0    0    0    0    0
 % slew time:       7    7   27   12   14
 % idle time:      15   15    4   19   14
 total # scans:   182  182  183  183  182
 # scans/hour :     8    8    8    8    8
 Avg scan (sec):  365  365  320  320  342
 # data tracks:    16   16   16   16
 # Mk5 tracks:     16   16   16   16
 Total GBytes:   1195 1195 1055 1055 1125
 Total GB(M5):   1062 1063  937  937 1000
 # of tapes :     1.0  1.0  1.0  1.0
 tape change times (hhmm):
                                                                                                                                                                
Total number of tapes:   4.0  Total GBytes (M5) recorded:  3999.5
      # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE 
  |  Ai   Cc   Kb   S3  StnTotal
------------------------------
Ai|      181  182  182     545      
Cc|           182  182     545      
Kb|                183     547      
S3|                        547      


 Number of  2-station scans:    0
 Number of  3-station scans:    2
 Number of  4-station scans:  181

 Total # of scans, observations:   183     1092