[evlatests] X-Band Mods on EVLA 14 & 16
Robert Hayward
rhayward at aoc.nrao.edu
Wed Aug 31 18:14:52 EDT 2005
Just a heads up to let you know that we are now using VLA-style X-Band
receivers on both Antennas 14 & 16. This means that they will have lower
output level than the modified receivers we have bee using.
Specifically, the cascaded post-amps on the X-Band in Ant 14 have been
removed. On Ant 16, the receiver was replaced with S/N 41. The original
unit will be returned to the AOC to have the beefier post-amps removed
and the original amps swapped back in, where upon it will be installed
on Ant 18 in a couple of weeks.
As a result, the RF Attenuators on the T304's should be set to 0 dB
(Barry's setup script already does this) and the Output Attenuator will
end up being in the 10-15 dB range to produce the canonical -33 dBm
output level.
Finally, we found some curly bits of metal (and 2 bugs) on the vacuum
window of the X-Band receiver on Ant 16 before we swapped it out. This
undoubtedly is the cause of the high cross-polarization that Ken was
seeing last week.
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