[evlatests] A curious new birdie at X-band
Ken Sowinski
ksowinsk at nrao.edu
Tue Jul 23 11:52:16 EDT 2013
On Tue, 23 Jul 2013, Rick Perley wrote:
> As part of the 'receiver rotation' experiment, I've taken wideband
> data covering all of L, S, C, and X bands.
>
> Looking at the higher half of X-band (10 to 12 GHz), one, and only
> one, piece of RFI is seen. It's a pure tone, at
>
> 10750 MHz
>
> This is not a harmonic of 128 MHz (but is close -- the 84th harmonic
> is 10752 MHz). No other birdies are seen, so this tone is definitely
> special.
>
> And it's only seen on antennas near the center of the array --
> strongly arguing for a local origin.
Tha last time you saw this it was coming from the LO of the new API
equipment.
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