• Jan 29 - CW inclinometry OK - and Fourier analysis of ripple
• Feb 03 - Fourier analysis of ripple : no need for alarm
• Feb 13 - Pointing & Focus checks for January & February 2006
• Feb 13 - JCMT shuts down for engineering work preparing the antenna for the arrival of SCUBA-2 in ~September. Pointing will resume in ~July once the antenna is returned to the Operations crew.
• Jul 21 - THI.tide corrected to reflect 33 leap seconds (since 1972). This will require compensation within the model.
• Aug 21 - CW inclinometry - first full CW run since SCUBA-2 engineering shutdown
• Aug 22 - CW inclinometry fails, but reveals evolution in TY (Ch2)
• Aug 23 - CW inclinometry OK
• Aug 24 - RxA pointing and CCW inclinometry - both rather unsatisfactory
• Aug 25 - CW and CCW inclinometry - both yield low-amplitude TY data
• Aug 26 - CW and CCW inclinometry again - low-amplitude TY data again
• Aug 29 - CW and CCW inclinometry with elevation drives disabled: TY amplitude normal
• Aug 30 - CW inclinometry with updated software : TY amplitude truly normal
• Aug 31 - RxA pointing
• Sep 01 - Inclinometry sanity check
• Sep 01 - RxA pointing: mo' . . . and bettah !
• Sep 05 - Pointing quality since model installation
• Sep 14 - Pointing quality update
• Sep 16 - Inclinometry OK
• Sep 25 - Pointing quality update
• Oct 03 - Inclinometry OK
• Oct 10 - Inclinometry OK
• Oct 15 - Inclinometry interrupted by earthquake
• Oct 18 - Inclinometry following earthquake
• Oct 23 - Pointing quality update
• Oct 27 - CW Inclinometry and pointing following central bearing adjustment
• Oct 28 - Pointing model update
• Nov 01 - CW/CCW Inclinometry OK
• Nov 04 - CW/CCW Inclinometry OK
• Nov 07 - Pointing model update
• Nov 14 - CW inclinometry too noisy to use
• Nov 18 - HARP pointing
• Nov 27 - Recent pointing problems w/RxA
• Dec 13 - Allsky pointing with RxA - azimuth performance still awful.
• Dec 18 - (RxA) pointing update
• Dec 18 - HARP pointing
• Dec 29 - (RxA) pointing update

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