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Regression Test of M&C 4.2 : March 25, 2004 (16:30 - 01:00)

Jim Braatz

Overview: These notes describe my tests of M&C 4.2 software on 3/25/04, prior to release of the new software. This document includes a list of items which should be addressed, followed by a scan log. Mark, Joe, and Ray were here on startup and fixed the critical IF FITS file problem encountered in integration testing. The issues I saw after that were almost all known items. I've repeated the ones from previous test sessions that haven't been addressed yet.

Data: /home/gbtdata/TREG_040325

Items to be addressed by Software IPT

More Critical Items (in the order they were encountered)

GO_LITE does not change STOP to START after a SlewTo
IF manager crashed on attempting the first peak
IF FITS file fatal flaw worked on and corrected by Mark & Ray & Joe
Cannot see /home/gbtdata from titania
L-band hysteresis in Azimuth
GO_LITE does not configure LO1 when going from pointing to FS with ACS
GO_LITE runs both iards and gfm regardless of which one is set
After changing receivers, antenna slews back to last position after running a new configuration; it shouldn't slew
Not enough power from K-band RX into OD7
Tsys wrong in gfm BS peaks

Less Critical Items (in the order they were encountered)

Antenna Monitor says "On Source" even when we are slewing
config_tool reports it is finished by changing the prompt; this can be confusing
Can't read labels on 4-panel gfm plots without resizing
gbtmsfiller gives improper (too many) IF labels to multi-IF data in FS mode
Couldn't log in to titania after 7:30PM
Changing OD7 to OD8 in IF rack took a long time (3 minutes) to show itself on cleo status screen
gfm failed to fit scan 57; data looked good enough to fit
gfm does not subtract ref beam in TP data for multibeam systems
IF rack not getting enough power for some configurations

Scan Log for project TREG_040325

Scan	Description	Good Data?	Comments
			16:30 Start switching versions; Ray and Mark here to help
			17:20 Config with config 1
			17:25 SlewTo 3C147
			17:33 Started Peak; IFManager crashed; scan started anyway with antenna the only component running
1	Crash
			Mark reboots/resets the IF Manager
2-4	Peak TP L-band 3C147	N	Mark identifies IF problem & is working on it
			17:55 try again with DCR while Mark Joe Ray working on IF
5-9	Peak TP L-band 3C147	Y	changed to running iards on etamin; no comm
10-13	Peak TP L-band 3C147	N	DCR not in scan coordinator; bad data
14-17	Peak TP L-band 3C147	N	Configured for DCR but the LO is freq switching
			18:22 reconfigure again to try to correct pointing problem
18-21	Peak TP L-band 3C147	Y	Worked ok this time
22-25	Peak TP L-band 3C147	Y	repeat
26	Focus TP L-band 3C147	Y	repeat
			18:43 Can't run gfm from etamin or titania
			Run gfm from naiad; naiad heavily loaded now
27-30	Peak TP L-band 3C147	Y	GFM; okay
31-34	Peak TP L-band 3C147	Y	repeat
35	Focus TP L-band 3C147	Y
			Turn on dynamic corrections
36-39	Peak TP L-band 3C147	Y	repeat
40	Focus TP L-band 3C147	Y
			config for scan of Galactic HI
41	Track FS ACS gal plane	N	bad scan: no FS
			LO1 does not change to proper FS settings when setting GO to FS mode
			reconfigure again
42	Track FS ACS gal plane	N
			balance ACS
43	Track FS ACS gal plane	Y	ok, but ACS problem? spikes in spectrum
			reset params; balance; try again
44	Track FS ACS gal plane	Y
			Config with Config 2
45-46	OffOn? TP ACS	Y	don't see it
47-48	OffOn? TP ACS	Y	diff galaxy; weak but ok
			Config with Config 3 - 2 IF ACS HI
49	Track FS ACS gal plane	Y
			Config with Config 4 - 2 IF ACS HI
			This one is more correct for FSW01 b/c setting mode to FS01 in GO changes delta2 to 0 MHz in LO1
50	Track FS ACS gal plane	Y	good
			Config with Config Case 10 - SP
51	Track FS SP gal plane	Y	good
			Put K-band RX in
			Configure with h2osetup.py
			Fiddle with faulty OD7 for a while ... reroute to OD8
52-55	Peak BS DC-on 3C147	Y	not great; bad focus?
			set focus to 0 and try again
56-59	Peak BS DC-on 3C147	Y
60-63	Peak BS DC-on 3C147	Y	fairly large LPCs = 0.25, 0.22
64	Focus BS DC-on 3C147	Y
65-68	Peak TP DC-on 3C147	Y	Tsys okay for TP in gfm
69	Focus TP DC-on 3C147	Y	Tsys okay for TP in gfm
70-71	Nod TP DC-on N3079	Y	looks good
72-73	Nod TP DC-on N3079	Y	put H2O line in the 2nd IF
			spectra look good; need to check that lines appear at same velocity when IF1 or IF2
74	Tip TP DC-on	Y
75	Tip TP DC-on	Y	another to check consistency
			Configure with config 5
			No power to OD1 in IF rack
			Try to switch to OD2, but balance ignores it
			Reconfigure, and try balance again with OD2, and it works
76-80	RALonMap TP DC-on DCR	Y	using OD2 and OD3
			Configure with config 6
			Cannot get all the channels in the ACS balanced ... try IF level = 6V
			GO_LITE did not put correct beam selection in by default
81-90	RALonMap TP DC-on ACS NH3	Y
			Configure with config 7
91	Track FS01 OMC-1 DC-on ACS	Y	looks ok
			test config_tool new parameters
			looks good
92-95	Peak TP DC-on ACS	Y
96	Focus TP DC-on ACS	Y
97-100	junk
101-102	Nod TP N2639 DC-on ACS	Y	not correct velocity to see h2o
			11:30PM Joe comes in to switch back to 4.1

Configurations Used

Config 1

from gbtsetup import *
g = gbtsetup()
g.receiver  = 'Rcvr1_2'
g.obstype   = 'Spectroscopy'
g.backend   = 'Spectrometer'
g.nwin      = 1
g.restfreq  = 1420.405
g.deltafreq = 0
g.bandwidth = 50.0
g.swmode    = "sp"
g.swtype    = "fsw"
g.swper     = 1.0
g.swfreq    = -5, 5
g.tint      = 10
g.vlow      = 0
g.vhigh     = 0
g.vframe    = "lsrk"
g.vdef      = "Radio"
g.noisecal  =  "lo"
g.pol       = "Linear"
g.nchan  =  "high"
g.spect.levels = 9
g.setup()

Config 2

g = gbtsetup()
g.receiver  = 'Rcvr1_2'
g.obstype   = 'Spectroscopy'
g.backend   = 'Spectrometer'
g.nwin      = 1
g.restfreq  = 1420.405
g.deltafreq = 0
g.bandwidth = 50.0
g.swmode    = "tp"
g.swtype    = "none"
g.swper     = 1.0
g.swfreq    = 0,0
g.tint      = 30
g.vlow      = 0
g.vhigh     = 0
g.vframe    = "bary"
g.vdef      = "Optical"
g.noisecal  =  "lo"
g.pol       = "Linear"
g.nchan  = "medium"
g.spect.levels = 9
g.setup()

Config 3

from gbtsetup import *
g = gbtsetup()
g.receiver  = 'Rcvr1_2'
g.obstype   = 'Spectroscopy'
g.backend   = 'Spectrometer'
g.nwin      = 2
g.restfreq  = 1400, 1420.405
g.deltafreq = 0, 0
g.bandwidth = 12.5
g.swmode    = "sp"
g.swtype    = "fsw"
g.swper     = 1.0
g.swfreq    = -0.5, 0.5
g.tint      = 30
g.vlow      = 0
g.vhigh     = 0
g.vframe    = "lsrk"
g.vdef      = "Radio"
g.noisecal  =  "lo"
g.pol       = "Linear"
g.nchan  =  "high"
g.spect.levels = 9
g.setup()

Config 4

g.swfreq    = -1.0, 0
g.setup()

Config 5

from gbtsetup import *
g = gbtsetup()
g.receiver  = 'Rcvr18_22'
g.obstype   = 'Continuum'
g.backend   = 'DCR'
g.nwin      = 1
g.restfreq  =  20100
g.deltafreq = 0
g.bandwidth = 80
g.swmode    = "tp"
g.swtype    = "none"
g.swper     = 0.2
g.swfreq    = 0,0
g.tint      = 0.2
g.vlow      = 0.0
g.vhigh     = 0.0
g.vframe    = "topo"
g.vdef      = "Radio"
g.noisecal  =  "lo"
g.pol       = "Circular"
g.setup()

Config 6

from gbtsetup import *
g = gbtsetup()
g.receiver  = 'Rcvr22_26'
g.beam      = 'B34'
g.obstype   = 'Spectroscopy'
g.backend   = 'Spectrometer'
g.nwin      = 4
g.restfreq  = 23694.495, 23722.633, 23870.129, 25056.025
g.deltafreq = 0,0,0,0
g.bandwidth = 50
g.swmode    = "sp"
g.swtype    = "bsw"
g.swper     = 1.0
g.swfreq    = 0.0, 0.0
g.tint      = 30
g.vlow      = 0
g.vhigh     = 0
g.vframe    = "lsrk"
g.vdef      = "Radio"
g.noisecal  =  "lo"
g.pol       = "Circular"
g.nchan  =  "medium"
g.spect.levels = 3
g.setup()

Config 7

from gbtsetup import *
g = gbtsetup()
g.receiver  = 'Rcvr22_26'
g.beam      = 'B3'
g.obstype   = 'Spectroscopy'
g.backend   = 'Spectrometer'
g.nwin      = 2
g.restfreq  = 23694.495, 23722.633
g.deltafreq = 0,0
g.bandwidth = 50.0
g.swmode    = "sp"
g.swtype    = "fsw"
g.swper     = 1.0
g.swfreq    = -2, +2
g.tint      = 30
g.vlow      = 0
g.vhigh     = 0
g.vframe    = "lsrk"
g.vdef      = "Radio"
g.noisecal  =  "lo"
g.pol       = "Circular"
g.nchan  =  "medium"
g.spect.levels = 9
g.setup()
 
 
-- Main.JimBraatz - 25 Mar 2004

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