EUROPE-62
              (EUROPEAN Geodetic VLBI Network session No. 62)
  
                        Schedule and Notes prepared by
       Axel Nothnagel, University of Bonn Geodetic Institute
  
Date of experiment:   2001 December 10
Nominal start time:   12h00 UT
Nominal end   time:   12h00 UT on December 12, 2001

Duration:             24 hrs 


Correlator:    Bonn

Participating stations:

Station     Code  
Crimea       Sm
Effelsberg   Eb
Matera       Ma
Medicina     Mc
NyAlesund    Ny
Onsala60     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 40 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 344-1803 and 344-1938.


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/euro62.skd for experiment EURO62  

      (all scans with at least one subnet station)


 Average number of obs. per baseline per source (normalized by up-time) =  10.5
 Min =    .0   Max =  315.0 (Baseline Ny-On on CTA26   )   RMS =  18.6

 Total time:       1444 minutes ( 24.1 hours).

 Key:     Sm=CRIMEA     Eb=EFLSBERG   Ma=MATERA     Mc=MEDICINA   Ny=NYALES20
          On=ONSALA60   Wz=WETTZELL   Yb=YEBES   

                  Sm  Eb  Ma  Mc  Ny  On  Wz  Yb  Avg
 % obs. time:     29  10  44  30  58  57  54  32  39 
 % cal. time:      1   1   3   3   2   2   3   1   2 
 % slew time:     24  46  20  34  14  17   9  19  23 
 % idle time:     43  42  31  32  23  21  33  46  34 
 # of tapes :    1.8  .5  .7  .5  .9  .9  .8 1.8
 total # scans:  139 143 282 282 258 255 261 162 222 
 # scans/hour :    5   5  11  11  10  10  10   6  9.3
 Avg scan (sec): 185  61 138  92 196 196 180 174 152 

      # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE

   | Sm  Eb  Ma  Mc  Ny  On  Wz  Yb   StnTotal 
 ----------------------------------------------
 Sm|139  66 136 133 106 108 120  78      747 
 Eb|    143 130 131 120 120 120  80      767 
 Ma|        282 273 217 217 243 155     1371 
 Mc|            282 214 215 245 159     1370 
 Ny|                258 232 207 130     1226 
 On|                    255 204 133     1229 
 Wz|                        261 138     1277 
 Yb|                            162      873 


 Number of  2-station scans:   34
 Number of  3-station scans:   29
 Number of  4-station scans:   34
 Number of  5-station scans:   46
 Number of  6-station scans:   82
 Number of  7-station scans:   79
 Number of  8-station scans:   27

 Total # of scans, observations:   331    4430


 Average baseline components for all observations
  Average XY     = 1684.
  Average XZ     = 1549.
  Average YZ     = 1298.
  Average length = 1912.