Observing with the Station (REALTA)

• Oddities
• Recording with REALTA (empty)
• Changing Recording Drive

Oddities

• When observing with the HBAs, there can be a desync between beamforming beginning and delivery of data to the LCU. As a result, always ensure there are at least 10 seconds between the end of beamforming initialisation ("Points accepted") and recording begining.
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Recording with REALTA (empty)

Changing Recording Drive

Depending on the circumstance, you may want to change where voltages are being recorded. To swap between ucc1_recording1 and ucc2_recording2. Two changes have to be made.

1. First `/home/ilofar/scheduling/quicksched.py` must have line 57, changed to preferred drive. 
   recordingDrive = "ucc1_recording1"
2. The line 37 of `/home/ilofar/scheduling/scheduleAndRun.py` must be changed to desired drive. 
   RECORDING_PATH="/mnt/ucc1_recording1/data/observations/"