[evla-sw-discuss] VLA antennas and the EVLA parameters database
Barry Clark
bclark at nrao.edu
Thu Nov 2 17:05:21 EST 2006
The current code expects to find in the database:
antenna.WGCHAN waveguide channel.
If not present or is zero, it expects
station.FIBERDELAY
If it is present, it expects
station.WGDELAY (should have been WGLENGTH - sorry)
setup.GROUPVEL<wgchannel> (which it multiplies by the length)
and there may be present setup.WG20<wgchannel> (extra length 20mm wg)
There may also be antenna.DELAY, added to that.
There are also antenna(band).DELAYA, antenna(band).DELAYB, antenna(band).DELAYC,
antenna(band).DELAYD
This choice of parameters was a purely aesthetic excercise to get as
little kludginess as possible dragged in by VLA antennas. Didn't occur to
me until latter that I should have moved this stuff off into separate objects,
different for VLA and EVLA.
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