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22/23 Dec 07

WEATHER SUCKS

Observing: BSM, PK

Prior to the run Scott Ransom kept us below 10 degrees for several
hours. It's 2am and we're still recovering-- just started a risky He3
condensation (we probably have very little liquid He4).

In the meantime try out subreflector motion tests with Ka. These look
*very* promising.

-SBs named ccbPeak have the srdaisies
-SBs named rasterscan have the 8'x8' mustang scan pattern spaced by 24"

2:30am -- finally get cold (expect a very short He3 hold -- have no He4)

Cryo is bad.  Running at 330mK no He4.

vnc is hanging on us. every time you do something in IRC. It seems to
be vnc though b/c the desktop context switching is hanging at that
point too, we kinda think.

Biases are lousy because we cant get VNC workin, no IVs or firmware ramp

Atmosphere and instrument drifts are bad

2007_12_23_03:02:58.fits: Cal taken manually

scans 41,40 random scans to sync everything up

slew to mars

42,43,44,45:focus daisies

best is -7mm

46:Brians' crazy subreflector daisy on mars

Pointing change

47:Subreflector Daisy with pointing offset
48,49,50,:Mars oof map

We lost lock in those
Relocked

51: 8'x 8' raster on mars

52: another big raster
53: slow subreflector daisy dt=.1 not .25, scan length 220 not 110
54: slow subreflector daisy dt=.25 not .25, scan length 220 not 110

Wind is 15mph !!!
Alarm just went off.

Slew to 3c279

Relocked again

55,56,57:OOF on 3c279

58:sub daisy, dt=.2, length = 220

changed focus to +3

59:sub daisy, dt=.1, length = 220

60:Tip on the way up

Pretty Bad night.

-- BrianMason - 03 Jan 2008

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