CALLISTO & e-CALLISTO status report #15

To:
Arnold O. Benz	ETHZ, Switzerland	benz@astro.phys.ethz.ch 	
Tim Bastian
R. Bradley	NRAO, USA
	tbastian@nrao.edu
rbradley@nrao.edu 	
Frédéric Clette	ROB, Belgium	frederic.clette@oma.be 	
P. K. Manoharan
D. Nandagopal
R. Venkatasubramani
A. J. Selvanayagam	NCRA Ooty, India	mano@wm.ncra.tifr.res.in
dng@mailhost.tifr.res.in 
rvs@mailhost.tifr.res.in
selvan@mailhost.tifr.res.in 	
R. Ramesh
V. C. Kathiravan	IIA Bangalore, India	ramesh@iiap.res.in
kathir@iiap.res.in 	
Alexander Altyntsev
Sergey Lesovoi
Andrey Maslov 	SSRT Badary/Irkutsk
Russian Federation	altyntsev@iszf.irk.ru 
lesovoi@iszf.irk.ru
mac88@yandex.ru 	
Jorge Paez 
Marco Barantes	CINESPA, Costa Rica	jpaezp@cariari.ucr.ac.cr
mnbarrantes@gmail.com 	
Alejandro Lara 	UNAM, Mexico	alara@geofisica.unam.mx 	
Cho	Korea	kscho@kasi.re.kr 	

Cc:
Hansueli Meyer	ETHZ	meyerh@astro.phys.ethz.ch 	
Peter Messmer	TXCORP, USA	messmer@txcorp.com 	
N. Gopalswamy	NASA, USA	gopals@fugee.gsfc.nasa.gov 	

From:
Christian Monstein	ETHZ	monstein@astro.phys.ethz.ch 	

Since April 2006, when the last report was sent out, a couple of new spectrometers were installed worldwide. Most of them are running now and some of them have already captured some nice spectra. 

For spectral overviews, see:
http://www.astro.phys.ethz.ch/cgi-bin/showdir?dir=qv_callisto&file=dir.html

For data access (FITS-files), see:
http://www.astro.phys.ethz.ch/cgi-bin/showdir?dir=Observation_callisto&file=dir.html

Configuration control is getting more and more challenging since every host site has some individual properties like: Callisto-type (dual channel or single channel), antenna, polarization, sun-tracking, sensitivity, electro-magnetic interference, server type (FTP, SSH, VNC, no server) etc.

Quite a lot of different software updates were made in one single run, see next verification matrix. The latest software is now available on our Callisto websites. For update/install procedure, see bottom of this report.

For dual channel Callisto at NRAO, OOTY, ETH, see: http://www.astro.phys.ethz.ch/instrument/callisto/Appdocs/callistoV204.zip

For single channel e-Callisto at GAURI, BADARY, CINESPA, ETH, see:
http://www.astro.phys.ethz.ch/instrument/callisto/ecallisto/ecallistoV104.zip

1.	Verification matrix of software updates:

Nr	Modification / Update	Callisto
2 receiver	e-Callisto
single receiver	
1	Yt-Label at a fixed position, not moving with plot			
2	Disable memo-output during overview measurement			
3	Standardisation of access via Acrobat to operating manual			
4	Updating of operating manual			
5	Comments regarding Ringbuffer-load simplified			
6	Logging of overview data excluded from logfiles			
7	Start-  and stop comments for overview improved			
8	Updated version number on info panel			
9	Update overview file with pwm-value  (tuner/agc-gain)	Not applicable		
10	ProgressBar for overview installed			
11	Load-factor in ´FRQ loading´ changed to ´Yield´			
12	Update main title with ´Radiospectrograf´			
13	Variable type changed from GPSData to TGPSData			
14	Prevent parallelism of continuous recording + overview			
15	Prevent parallelism of continuous recording + FRQ loading			
16	Save hiding status during switching of ´Automatic/Manual´			
17	Compiler option Speed optimisation = ON			
18	Compiler option Final compilation = ON			
19	Store detector gradient in FITS header	Not implemented	Not implemented	
20	Store filename of frequency file in FITS header			
21	Store pwm value in FITS header	Not applicable		
22	Add observatory code to log filename			
23	Add observatory code to overview filename			
24	Limit image size for Yt 80% in height and width			
25	Limit image size for XY 50% in height and width			
26	Limit image size for XYZ 60% in height 30% in width			
27	Unused Popup Menus deleted	Not applicable		
28	Reformat ScrollBars and colortable in XYZ plot 			
29	Conditional labelling while loading frequency files			
30	Obsolete units (*.cpp, *.h) deleted from project			
31	LoDat and XY(Z)plotmode erased from units	Not applicable		
32	Obsolete buffers (old memory allocation) deleted	Not applicable		

2.	Hardware spectrometer

New spectrometers have been built, see at the bottom of: http://www.astro.phys.ethz.ch/instrument/callisto/ecallisto/applidocs.htm

3.	Calibration

Still in experimental phase, no ”easy” solution due to: 
a) insufficient gain of the antennas
b) no focal plane unit available thus, no noise sources
c) at some places too much rf interference
d) at some places no tracking of the sun

4.	Update/installation

•	Close running application and save your complete Callisto-directory into a separate medium
•	Download ZIP-files from the website mentioned above into your working Callisto-directory
•	Unzip the file into your working Callisto directory
•	Check configuration file and scheduler-file {my examples have an underscore (*.cfg_) at the end}
•	Restart the application 
•	If you encounter any problem, don’t hesitate to contact me at monstein-AT-astro.phys.ethz.ch or my colleague at meyerh-AT-astro.phys.ethz.ch. Remark: replace –AT- by @.

5.	AOB
New spectral overviews since last report (base band spectra) are available here: 
 
http://www.astro.phys.ethz.ch/instrument/callisto/RFSPEC2/Humain/spectrum80.htm
http://www.astro.phys.ethz.ch/instrument/callisto/RFSPEC2/Bivio/spectrum81.html
http://www.astro.phys.ethz.ch/instrument/callisto/RFSPEC2/Darlux/spectrum82.html
http://www.astro.phys.ethz.ch/instrument/callisto/RFSPEC2/Jakobshorn/spectrum83.html
http://www.astro.phys.ethz.ch/instrument/callisto/RFSPEC2/Joeriseen/spectrum84.html
http://www.astro.phys.ethz.ch/instrument/callisto/RFSPEC2/Safien/spectrum85.html
http://www.astro.phys.ethz.ch/instrument/callisto/RFSPEC2/Bangalore/spectrum89.html
http://www.astro.phys.ethz.ch/instrument/callisto/RFSPEC2/Ooty/spectrum86.html
http://www.astro.phys.ethz.ch/instrument/callisto/RFSPEC2/Gauribidanur/spectrum87.html
http://www.astro.phys.ethz.ch/instrument/callisto/RFSPEC2/Irkutsk/spectrum88.html
http://www.astro.phys.ethz.ch/instrument/callisto/RFSPEC2/Leiden/spectrum90.html 

Older status reports are available under: http://www.astro.phys.ethz.ch/instrument/callisto/Appdocs/applicabledocs.htm

Overview of actual frequency files at different host sites here: 
http://www.astro.phys.ethz.ch/instrument/callisto/IHYconfig/config.htm

6.	IHY
Spectrometer Ooty/India (Manoharan) installed and running
Spectrometer Gauribidanur/India (Ramesh) installed and running
Spectrometer Badary/Irkustk/Russia (Lesovoi) installed and running
Spectrometer CINESPA/Costa Rica (Jorge Paez) delivered, configuration in preparation
Spectrometer South Korea (Cho) in planning phase
Spectrometer Mexico (Alejandro Lara) delivery in preparation
Spectrometer Belgium (Frédéric Clette) in idle phase
Spectrometer Switzerland (Benz) 2 running at different frequency-ranges using down converters
Spectrometer NRAO (Bastian) no news, status unknown
Spectrometer Nigeria, Egypt, Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Japan, Slovenia, Australia canceled
Spectrometer for mobile IHY-exhibition Europe (Hartmann-event) in action

Presentation at IHY-meeting in Bangalore 2007, see: http://www.iiap.res.in/ihy/talks/Session11/Monstein_Callisto_IHY.pdf