diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index feb40a736850b88dd4e856b04d0fb63e711235b4..ea236e68000cbb062b626a9926bf19b382f7dc20 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -749,6 +749,7 @@ CEP/DP3/DPPP/include/DPPP/SourceDBUtil.h -text
 CEP/DP3/DPPP/include/DPPP/Stokes.h -text
 CEP/DP3/DPPP/include/DPPP/SubtractMixed.h -text
 CEP/DP3/DPPP/package.dox -text
+CEP/DP3/DPPP/share/LBAdefault -text
 CEP/DP3/DPPP/src/Apply.cc -text
 CEP/DP3/DPPP/src/BandpassCorrector.cc -text
 CEP/DP3/DPPP/src/ComplexMedianFlagger.cc -text
diff --git a/CEP/DP3/DPPP/CMakeLists.txt b/CEP/DP3/DPPP/CMakeLists.txt
index 65009d6ac003cb48a0895f753af401b8abd901a3..d016b93227f1777302c83527fc40c5572d28c55c 100644
--- a/CEP/DP3/DPPP/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CEP/DP3/DPPP/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -7,4 +7,5 @@ lofar_find_package(Casacore COMPONENTS casa ms tables REQUIRED)
 
 add_subdirectory(include/DPPP)
 add_subdirectory(src)
+add_subdirectory(share)
 add_subdirectory(test)
diff --git a/CEP/DP3/DPPP/share/CMakeLists.txt b/CEP/DP3/DPPP/share/CMakeLists.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..be25d40163202acd3b44af80392a324916baa639
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CEP/DP3/DPPP/share/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+# $Id$
+
+# Data files
+install(FILES
+  LBAdefault
+  DESTINATION share/rfistrategies)
diff --git a/CEP/DP3/DPPP/share/LBAdefault b/CEP/DP3/DPPP/share/LBAdefault
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..200dc2f961748cd3b7ea90b75ae4afc4a5f3c0c5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CEP/DP3/DPPP/share/LBAdefault
@@ -0,0 +1,117 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!-- This is a Strategy configuration file for the
+rfi detector by André Offringa (offringa@astro.rug.nl).
+It is the default strategy for LBA observations.
+-->
+<rfi-strategy format-version="3.7" reader-version-required="3.4">
+  <action type="Strategy">
+    <children>
+      <action type="SetFlaggingAction">
+        <new-flagging>0</new-flagging>
+      </action>
+      <action type="ForEachPolarisationBlock">
+        <on-xx>1</on-xx>
+        <on-xy>1</on-xy>
+        <on-yx>1</on-yx>
+        <on-yy>1</on-yy>
+        <on-stokes-i>0</on-stokes-i>
+        <on-stokes-q>0</on-stokes-q>
+        <on-stokes-u>0</on-stokes-u>
+        <on-stokes-v>0</on-stokes-v>
+        <children>
+          <action type="ForEachComplexComponentAction">
+            <on-amplitude>1</on-amplitude>
+            <on-phase>0</on-phase>
+            <on-real>0</on-real>
+            <on-imaginary>0</on-imaginary>
+            <restore-from-amplitude>0</restore-from-amplitude>
+            <children>
+              <action type="IterationBlock">
+                <iteration-count>2</iteration-count>
+                <sensitivity-start>4</sensitivity-start>
+                <children>
+                  <action type="SumThresholdAction">
+                    <base-sensitivity>1</base-sensitivity>
+                    <time-direction-flagging>1</time-direction-flagging>
+                    <frequency-direction-flagging>0</frequency-direction-flagging>
+                  </action>
+                  <action type="CombineFlagResults">
+                    <children>
+                      <action type="FrequencySelectionAction">
+                        <threshold>3</threshold>
+                      </action>
+                      <action type="TimeSelectionAction">
+                        <threshold>3.5</threshold>
+                      </action>
+                    </children>
+                  </action>
+                  <action type="SetImageAction">
+                    <new-image>1</new-image>
+                  </action>
+                  <action type="ChangeResolutionAction">
+                    <time-decrease-factor>3</time-decrease-factor>
+                    <frequency-decrease-factor>3</frequency-decrease-factor>
+                    <restore-revised>1</restore-revised>
+                    <restore-masks>0</restore-masks>
+                    <children>
+                      <action type="HighPassFilterAction">
+                        <horizontal-kernel-sigma-sq>2.5</horizontal-kernel-sigma-sq>
+                        <vertical-kernel-sigma-sq>5</vertical-kernel-sigma-sq>
+                        <window-width>21</window-width>
+                        <window-height>31</window-height>
+                        <mode>1</mode>
+                      </action>
+                    </children>
+                  </action>
+                </children>
+              </action>
+              <action type="SumThresholdAction">
+                <base-sensitivity>1</base-sensitivity>
+                <time-direction-flagging>1</time-direction-flagging>
+                <frequency-direction-flagging>0</frequency-direction-flagging>
+              </action>
+            </children>
+          </action>
+        </children>
+      </action>
+      <action type="PlotAction">
+        <plot-kind>5</plot-kind>
+        <logarithmic-y-axis>0</logarithmic-y-axis>
+      </action>
+      <action type="SetFlaggingAction">
+        <new-flagging>4</new-flagging>
+      </action>
+      <action type="StatisticalFlagAction">
+        <enlarge-frequency-size>0</enlarge-frequency-size>
+        <enlarge-time-size>0</enlarge-time-size>
+        <max-contaminated-frequencies-ratio>0.5</max-contaminated-frequencies-ratio>
+        <max-contaminated-times-ratio>0.5</max-contaminated-times-ratio>
+        <minimum-good-frequency-ratio>0.2</minimum-good-frequency-ratio>
+        <minimum-good-time-ratio>0.2</minimum-good-time-ratio>
+      </action>
+      <action type="TimeSelectionAction">
+        <threshold>3.5</threshold>
+      </action>
+      <action type="BaselineSelectionAction">
+        <preparation-step>1</preparation-step>
+        <flag-bad-baselines>0</flag-bad-baselines>
+        <threshold>8</threshold>
+        <smoothing-sigma>0.6</smoothing-sigma>
+        <abs-threshold>0.4</abs-threshold>
+        <make-plot>0</make-plot>
+      </action>
+      <action type="SetFlaggingAction">
+        <new-flagging>6</new-flagging>
+      </action>
+      <action type="WriteFlagsAction" />
+      <action type="PlotAction">
+        <plot-kind>0</plot-kind>
+        <logarithmic-y-axis>0</logarithmic-y-axis>
+      </action>
+      <action type="PlotAction">
+        <plot-kind>1</plot-kind>
+        <logarithmic-y-axis>0</logarithmic-y-axis>
+      </action>
+    </children>
+  </action>
+</rfi-strategy>
diff --git a/CEP/DP3/DPPP/src/MSWriter.cc b/CEP/DP3/DPPP/src/MSWriter.cc
index 3885e81de0e716f83b3b5782b8c0b93e54236d69..5a3f6b5cf9f382d80d02cfec564a4acbb1fd3284 100644
--- a/CEP/DP3/DPPP/src/MSWriter.cc
+++ b/CEP/DP3/DPPP/src/MSWriter.cc
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ namespace LOFAR {
       NSTimer::StartStop sstime(itsTimer);
       // Get tile size (default 1024 KBytes).
       uint tileSize        = parset.getUint (prefix+"tilesize", 1024);
-      uint tileNChan       = parset.getUint (prefix+"tilenchan", info.nchan());
+      uint tileNChan       = parset.getUint (prefix+"tilenchan", 0);
       itsOverwrite         = parset.getBool (prefix+"overwrite", false);
       itsCopyCorrData      = parset.getBool (prefix+"copycorrecteddata", false);
       itsCopyModelData     = parset.getBool (prefix+"copymodeldata", false);
@@ -75,6 +75,9 @@ namespace LOFAR {
       ASSERTSTR (itsDataColName == "DATA", "Currently only the DATA column"
                  " can be used as output");
       // Create the MS.
+      if (tileNChan <= 0) {
+        tileNChan = info.nchan();
+      }
       createMS (outName, info, tileSize, tileNChan);
       // Write the parset info into the history.
       writeHistory (itsMS, parset.parameterSet());