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From: Dick Simpson 650-723-3525 <rsimpson>
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To: daniel.s.kahan@jpl.nasa.gov, gene.goltz@jpl.nasa.gov, rsimpson
Subject: MEX BSR 2005/249
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Gene, Danny:

  Here are my recommendations for the MEX BSR on 2005/249.

  You can finish a little early; but the s/c transmitters stay
on after the second slew, so it's not as big a difference as on
the others.

Regards,
Dick

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03:50     BOA/Pre-cal

          FGAIN = 60, except FGAIN = 65 on X-RCP

          You can stop recording if the pre-cal is done before 06:30;
          just remember NOT to reset attenuators when you resume

          Check disk space; did Cassini ring BSR fill anything up?

06:50     BOT (but MEX is in occultation)

07:00     FROx = -7200 Hz;  FROs = -2500 Hz

07:01:14  S-Tx on (but MEX is in occultation)

07:05     Begin SCHAN=3 RSR recording (25 kHz) if not already recording

07:06:44  X-Tx on (but MEX is in occultation)

07:11     Exit occultation

07:14:44  X TLM on

07:18:14  X TLM off

07:49:53  Begin Slew #1

07:51     Begin Mini-Cal #1 (Step 1)

07:56:41  End Slew #1

08:03     Mini-Cal #1  Step 5

08:13     Begin SCHAN=4 RSR recording (100 kHz)

08:28     Maximum echoes (strongest in RCP)

08:43     Stop SCHAN=4 RSR recording

08:48     Begin Mini-Cal #2 (Step 1)

08:58:01  Begin Slew #2

09:00     Mini-Cal #2  Step 5

09:05:04  End Slew #2

09:57:51  S-Tx off

09:58     OK with me to break track and start Post-Cal

10:01:51  S/C X TLM on (63 won't be collecting TLM)

10:35     scheduled EOT

11:35     scheduled EOA