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Instructions for proposals for RxB3, RxW and SCUBA for Semester 96AUnfortunately, the delivery date of RxB3 has slipped and it will not arrive in Hilo until February 1996 at the earliest. Until the receiver has been successfully commissioned it will not be available for astronomy. Users should continue to propose B-band observations with RxB3i.Progress on RxW is going well and I am informed by MRAO that the delivery date of RxW to the telescope is expected to be in the late autumn of 1995 (following a successful laboratory acceptance test at Cambridge). However, as RxW will require extensive commissioning (that will need dry weather which will be flexibly scheduled against PATT programs - see article on flexible scheduling for semester 96A) no proposals will be accepted for RxW for semester 96A. Following commissioning, C-band proposals which have already been allocated time will be undertaken using RxW. No D-band proposals will be accepted by PATT for 96A. Notification of D-band observations to be undertaken in SERVICE mode will be made at a later date and users notified through email exploders and the WWW. The situation regarding SCUBA is described elsewhere in this Newsletter and delivery to Hawaii is now expected by the end of the year. Although we expect to begin commissioning during semester 96A, the precise dates are still uncertain and therefore no proposals for SCUBA will be accepted for 96A. Proposals to use UKT14 should continue. As I have previously indicated, the first observations with SCUBA will be undertaken in a serviced mode by members of the commissioning team and users will be notified by e-mail exploder and the WWW of what type of proposals to submit for these 'shared risk' observations. Ensure you are on the e-mail exploder -- see the WWW JCMT homepage. Ian Robson, Director JCMT
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