Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 19:56:27 -0700
To: tfolkers@as.arizona.edu
From: despada@asiaa.sinica.edu.tw (Daniel Espada )
Subject: Observer Comment Sheet

Below is the result of your feedback form.
It was submitted by Daniel Espada (despada@asiaa.sinica.edu.tw)
Sunday, May 20, 2007 at 19:56:26
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Program: AS-E2

Telescope: SMT

Receiver: new rx (AOS, FB and CTS as backends)

DateOfRun:  15, 16 and 17 May 2007

phone: +886-2-3365-2200, ext. 777

Manuals: 
-Usually the manuals are found to be out of date, and a bit confusing. 

-Wiki webpage seems to be a step forward but still not complete.


Equipment:
-Overall is quite good.

-One of the channel of the FB cannot be used.

-Overhead time was understimated for the amount of time that takes to 
 tune (~10 min.) plus the time that takes to check the spectrum on a 
 test source (~5 minutes more) each time.

-Software: remote control system is outstanding.


Support:
-All the operators were found to be helpful and willing to give useful 
 comments to improve the efficiency of the observations.


Objectives:
-Less than half of the sources were observed due mainly to bad weather. 
 Sensitivity considerably decreases due to problem on one of the channel 
 of the FB. 


Problems:
-Ch. on FB.

-Overheads due to re-tuning, could be more efficient for this kind of 
 extragalactic surveys.


Resolved:
-Not resolved.


Hours_lost_weather:
-More than 1 full day lost due to thunderstorm and clouds. 


Hours_lost_equipment:
-Around 2 hours, troubleshooting and trying to fix the problem on the FB.


Suggestions:
-Update the cookbooks.

-Inform about the current status of the instrumentation carefully to allow 
 a better quantification of the required observing time.

-More efficiency in overheads. For example, is not fully understood why it 
 is necessary to check focus everytime pointing is performed. Re-tuning 
 takes too long, probably saving the settings from previous observations 
 would be more efficient.

-Difficult to find spectral surveys for test sources. A compilation from 
 previous observations would be helpful.


Others: kuan@alioth.geos.ntnu.edu.tw