[evlatests] ea28 pointing

Ken Sowinski ksowinsk at nrao.edu
Tue Nov 4 17:23:00 EST 2008


On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, Ken Sowinski wrote:

> From a pointing run done Friday night, November 1 IAT estimates
> of tilt and az encoder offsets were made and incorporated in the
> database.  The tilt error was over 2 arc-min, so the antenna would
> not have worked well at K or Ka band.  Collimation errors must still
> be determined for the high frequency bands and that will be attempted
> tomorrow.

The antenna now works well enough at all bands (except Q band)
that a collimation pointing run would be useful.  However there
is still an ACU problem and any finer work on pointing or focus
should wait till we believe the servo system is working correctly.




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