These are parameters that specify global behavior of vex2difx, including how to split the observation into smaller chunks

Start time
Duration (stop time ?)
antenna lists {}
output format (swin, rpf)
destination prefix
data buffer factor / vis. buffer factor
splitting parameters (singleScan, singleSetup, maxGap, maxLength, minSubarraySize)

Correlator parameters to use

integration time
num channels
channel selection (criteria start /stop /average)
pulsar parameters
polarization
autocorrelations on/off
blocks per send
num phase centers
phase center RA/DEC (or EPH)
active antennas
active baselines
sub-band ordering
LO-Offset
Clock Offset

Mapping of scans to correlator parameters

(Note, unspecified conditionals will default to no selection)

source name: any
scan name: any
calcode: any
qualifier: any
frequency (mode): any

⇒ configuration