How to be a Run Coordinator

Run Coordinator Duties

  1. Give SLD report at 8:00 am MCC-SLC meeting and at the 8:30 SLD meeting.
  2. Check on start and end of each shift.
  3. Talk to SLC program director and make program decisions
  4. Write daily run status report and record daily telephone message.
  5. Check list of upcoming shifts and make sure shiftees are ready to take shifts. Help train shiftees (especially experts) who may have insufficient experience.
  6. Shift Discipline

Run Coordinator's Daily Report

Should include
  1. Brief summary of each shift, including people on shift
  2. Number of Z's from SLC, SLD online, SLD offline
  3. Background plots.
  4. Polarization plot.
The report can be written on the MAC, by following the following instructions '

To Get Shift Summaries

Shift experts should write a shift report at the end of each shift, enter it into the Oracle database and then paste it into the log book. If they don't shoot 'em.

To access the reports, look in the log book, or from any SLD SCP running on SLDACQ:

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Then select:

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The selected shift report will appear in the display window.

To Get Number of Z's (from SLC/ SLD online)

From the MCC SCP (left end of Star Wars console).

Choose Index, Special Display, Lum History Plots

Choose last 24 hours or set explicit ,begin and end times using the Plot Scale Panel. To get the printout use the Print Graph Display button.

Noise Signals and Polarization

From the MCC SCP (left end of Star Wars console).

Choose Index, IP Status, >SLD 24hr macro.

This will automatically print out the three standard noise plots on the IMCEH0 printer. If you want to access the individual plots look in the SLD History Panel.

To get a nice polarization plot use the SLD POLSCP, choose Index, Pol Panel, Pol TH, CKV POL.

To Get the Offline numbers

A new offline facility has been developed by your friendly offline crew which should make it very easy to generate the offline report. As of now (July 4 1994) it is not completely functional, but check it out anyway.

Update the Daily Status Message

It would be really nice if you could update the status display just by filling in a form such as this one, but you can't because we haven't made it work yet, so instead you have to follow the instructions below, using your choice of operating system.

For SLACVM lovers

  1. If you are lazy you can get the previous day's report off the G disk by typing 
         FILELIST * NEWS G
    then copying the most recent file to your own disk for editing. Make sure you edit out the first three lines if you do this, since they are inserted by DUCSNEWS and you don't want them there again.
  2. Edit the file including all of the goodies that you want the world at large to know about the past 24 hour's running, including an update on SLC performance and problems, any SLD hardware or software problems, plans for the current day, and a luminosity summary of total Z's, Z's for the day, etc.
  3. Issue the command 
         $SLDNEWS yourfn yourft yourdisk
    and away it will go to DUCSNEWS.

For VAX lovers

Safest thing is to log onto the SLD VAX using the normal SLD account and password (see the back section of the Rules of the Game folder if you don't know the password).

Create a file containing the days status report (see instructions for Vm lovers above). You can now submit your file to DUCS issuing the commands: 

     $ DUCSNEWS
     DUCSNEWS> ADD yourfile
Enter the expiry date (e.g. 0007, meaning 7 days from now) and the title (e.g. SLD Run Status Report for 15 July 1994) when prompted DUCSNEWS> EXIT However you submit your report don't forget to print out a copy and stick it in the SLD log book.

Update the Phone Message

To listen to the message dial SLAC Ext. 2011 The phone message should be updated daily.

To record a new message:

  • dial SLAC Ext. 5110
  • dial mailbox: 1000#
  • dial password: 1000#
  • dial 5 to record new message
  • dial # or hang up.
    • Tony Johnson, June 30 1994

    Based on earlier versions by Charlie Baltay, Mike Hildreth.