EUROPE-60
              (EUROPEAN Geodetic VLBI Network session No. 60)
  
                        Schedule and Notes prepared by
       Axel Nothnagel, University of Bonn Geodetic Institute
  
Date of experiment:   2001 June 18
Nominal start time:   12h00 UT
Nominal end   time:   12h00 UT on June 19, 2001

Duration:             24 hrs 


Correlator:    Bonn

Participating stations:

Station     Code  
Crimea       Sm
DSS65        65
Matera       Ma
Medicina     Mc
Noto         Nt
NyAlesund    Ny
Onsala       On
Wettzell     Wz
Yebes        Yb

Tape usage and scans to be observed: See summary of schedule below


Purpose
=======
The purpose of this experiment is to determine station coordinates and their
evolution in the southern part of the European geodetic VLBI network with the 
highest precision possible. 


Schedule
========
The schedule was produced by Axel Nothnagel using the automatic mode of sked.
The schedule was optimized for local sky coverage. 
The sky coverage for all stations were optimzed. Simeiz and Yebes are tagged along.

The minimum SNR on all baselines is 35 at X band and 25 at S band.
SNR between Onsala and NyAlesund as well as Onsala and Wettzell are
reduced to 25/20 to avoid extraordinary scan lengths.

The schedule was made with the early tape start feature. 

Wettzell was spared for IRIS-Intensive between 169-1808 and 169-1951.



Procedures
==========
The frequency sequence, EUR2-SX, used for the last EUROPE experiment will
also be used for this experiment.

     Channel        Sky Frequency
     =======        =============
               X-band

     1              8210.99  
     2              8220.99  
     3              8250.99  
     4              8310.99  
     5              8420.99  
     6              8500.99  
     7              8550.99  
     8              8580.99
  
               S-band

     1              2212.99  
     2              2227.99
     3              2237.99  
     4              2267.99  
     5              2287.99
     6              2292.99  


Correlation
===========
This experiment will be correlated at the Bonn Correlator.


   SKED Summary from file /diskB5/sked97/sched/euro60.skd0 for experiment EURO60  

      (all scans with at least one subnet station)


 Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) =  10.8
 Min =    .0   Max =   43.3 (Baseline Ny-On on CTA26   )   RMS =   9.2

 Total time:       1435 minutes ( 23.9 hours).

 Key:     Sm=CRIMEA     65=DSS65      Ma=MATERA     Mc=MEDICINA   Nt=NOTO    
          Ny=NYALES20   On=ONSALA60   Wz=WETTZELL   Yb=YEBES   

                  Sm  65  Ma  Mc  Nt  Ny  On  Wz  Yb  Avg
 % obs. time:     34  16  49  25  47  45  47  36  39  37 
 % cal. time:      1   2   2   2   2   2   2   2   2   2 
 % slew time:     24  47  16  29  33  12  15   7  21  23 
 % idle time:     39  32  31  43  16  39  34  53  37  36 
 # of tapes :    2.0  .3  .8  .4 2.8  .7  .8  .6 2.3
 total # scans:  149 215 225 226 222 220 218 208 183 207 
 # scans/hour :    6   8   9   9   9   9   9   8   7  8.6
 Avg scan (sec): 198  67 188  95 183 178 187 151 184 159 

      # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE

   | Sm  65  Ma  Mc  Nt  Ny  On  Wz  Yb   StnTotal 
 --------------------------------------------------
 Sm|149 131 144 144 143 121 124 136 123     1066 
 65|    215 199 203 199 174 171 177 179     1433 
 Ma|        225 220 218 180 185 198 174     1518 
 Mc|            226 218 182 189 200 178     1534 
 Nt|                222 174 181 196 174     1503 
 Ny|                    220 202 172 143     1348 
 On|                        218 175 149     1376 
 Wz|                            208 156     1410 
 Yb|                                183     1276 


 Number of  2-station scans:   31
 Number of  3-station scans:    5
 Number of  4-station scans:    8
 Number of  5-station scans:    9
 Number of  6-station scans:   26
 Number of  7-station scans:   50
 Number of  8-station scans:   54
 Number of  9-station scans:   86

 Total # of scans, observations:   269    6232


 Average baseline components for all observations
  Average XY     = 1744.
  Average XZ     = 1475.
  Average YZ     = 1439.
  Average length = 1975.