Observing with the Station (REALTA)

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. 

  

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. 

 

 First `/home/ilofar/scheduling/quicksched.py` must have line 57, changed to preferred drive.

 recordingDrive = " ucc1_recording1" 

 

 The line 37 of `/home/ilofar/scheduling/scheduleAndRun.py` must be changed to desired drive.

 RECORDING_PATH = " /mnt/ucc1_recording1/data/observations/ "