Test experiment s2046a.
Observing stations: Mg, Ws
Nominal start time: 2022.02.15_21:05:00
Nominal stop time:  2022.02.15_21:15:22
Start: 2022.046.21:05:00  End: 2022.046.21:15:28  Stations: mg,ws # Needed for CDDIS software

Goal: to reveal a fine feature in the complex bandpass in order
      to improve phase calibration. The feasibility of 
      "freezing" of a non-linear feature for processing consecutive
      observations will be investigated. If non-linear features
      are indeed stable, then this can be used as an a priori for 
      polarization bandpass calibration. In that case only
      a phase offset and a phase rate per IF can be adjusted.
      The reduction of degrees of freedom will improve robustness
      of polarization bandpass determination.

Success criteria: to determine non-linearity in phase and amplitude
                  bandpass with a high fidelity.

Two sources will be observed: 0016+731 and 1803+784 for 5  minutes.
These sources have substantially different parallactic angles.
Thus, consistency of polarization bandpass calibration can be evaluated.
Both sources have correlated flux density over 1 Jy at baselines 
longer than 5000 km. 


Date of experiment: 2022,Feb,15
Nominal Start Time: 21h05 UT
Nominal End Time:   21h16 UT
Duration:           0.17 hr
Correlator:         WETTZELL
Participating stations: (2)
MACGO12M    Mg
WETTZ13S    Ws

Contact:  Leonid Petrov
2022.02.08_20:11:41-05:00