ICF files

The instrument configuration files (ICF) are simple ascii files containing setup information. The following is an example.

{ FILE  NS_125X2.TXT
{
{   (initial text description here)
{

NOTE *            These two lines will be printed out             *
NOTE *        on the operators screen when the file is loaded     *

BE             DAS
if_output      1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0
be_input       a0                    ! DAS input channel
das_file       true
das_output     spectrum              ! Can be set to TSYS, TRX, TSKY

das_conf_nr    20000                 ! Configuration number (see below)

no_be_i_ch     8
{ das_signal_in  JCMT
subsys_req     yeye                  ! Both subsystems requested
centre_freq    1.45 1.55             ! IF frequencies of the two subsystems (GHz)
be_image_sign  1 1                   ! Backend image sideband

PROC_BITS   63                       ! Bit mask for correlator setup (see docs)
CHECK_LIM   100.0                    ! Bad ACF channel limit (sigma)
Taper       USUS                     ! Weighting function used per subsystem