Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 17:45:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jun-Hui Zhao 
To: Dan Marrone 
Cc: smamiriad@cfa.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: sma beta miriad!


The first sentence in my response to your previous message shoud read like

"The most of the MISSING features are trivial, but not really affecting on
the quality ...'

     Jun-Hui

On Mon, 2 Aug 2010, Jun-Hui Zhao wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, 2 Aug 2010, Dan Marrone wrote:
>
> > I see. Well, are there other deficiencies that I should be aware/afraid
> > of?
> The most of features are trivial, but not really affecting on the quality
> of
> your final image, probably just slowing down your speed in reduction
> of data a bit, such as you have to execute twice to compelete two
> sidebands instead of assigning sidebands=2.
>
> >Or does it appear to be working well and properly loading the data?
> So far, I haven't heard bad complaints except for several obvious bugs
> which have been fixed. You may go through your script for your data
> and let us know what you have found.
>
> > So far I haven't found problems, but I haven't imaged anything either as
> > I am now modifying all my scripts to deal with this new data path.
>       Good to know that. For single band (2GHz) data, the usages of the
> Miriad programs in your script should keep no changes. For double band
> (4Ghz), one might need to alter the strategy in reduction of ones' data
> but it should not change much.
>       Jun-Hui
> > Dan
> >
> > Jun-Hui Zhao wrote:
> > > Hi Dan,
> > >      Thanks for using it. The beta version has not been submitted to
> > > Miriad-CVS yet, i.e., it is still in a testing mode for "internal" users
> > > to debug and generate scripts for some routine programs. Several features
> > > have not been implemented, some of them you have noticed, such as
> > > only loading one of the sidebands once.
> > >      Jun-Hui
> > >
> > > On Mon, 2 Aug 2010, Dan Marrone wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >> Hi Jun-hui,
> > >>
> > >> Congratulations on getting the data loading to work so well. This will
> > >> make my data reduction process a lot easier, and I am very happy to have
> > >> this capability.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> I just happened across the beta page, so I don't know how widely
> > >> released it's supposed to be. Here are the things I notice as I load my
> > >> first data sets with the new code:
> > >> - There is nothing useful put into the history file by SMALOD when using
> > >> the patched version
> > >> - smalod with sideband=2 only loads the LSB
> > >>
> > >> If you want, I'll let you know if I find any other troubles.
> > >> Dan
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> >
>