GBT Support and Troubleshooting
This page provides links to various topics related to providing support and troubleshooting to GBT observers. In particular, it includes fixes and workarounds from the GBT support scientist's weekly meetings. Although provided as a resource for GBT support staff, experienced GBT observers may find these postings useful.
Also see Frequently Asked Questions.
- Astrid Scripts and Configuration
- 2008_07_07 Astrid Script Guide and advice.
- 2007-12-17 Subreflector Nodding (PDF)
- 2009_02_04 Advanced Mapping Advice
- Receivers
- 2008-02-11 Balancing Guidelines (PDF)
- Backends
- 2009-02-16 The Zpectrometer: everything you need to know including setup and Observing advice.
- 2008-03-10 Spectrometer Setup Problem - examples of bad lags - (PDF)
- 2008-03-10 CCB Overview (PDF)
- 2009-02-23 CCB Observing Intro(PDF)
- 2008-07-08 Radar Observing Advice
- 2008-07-08 VLBI Setup info and CheckList
- 2009-03-23 Tuning MUSTANG
- 2009-03-23 Older Notes about MUSTANG
