[evlatests] Q-band results
Rick Perley
rperley at aoc.nrao.edu
Tue Nov 1 11:41:16 EST 2005
.. and finally, Q-band.
Only antenna 14 has a Q-band receiver.
In short, it works very, very well indeed!
A) Fast Continuum:
10-second amplitude drops (of the 50% loss flavor) were seen on 3C84.
There were no phase spins.
Phase stability was exactly as expected for atmospherics, judging
by the
phase of the neighbor antenna, *except* that we had a 150 degree phase
jump on IFs 14B and 14D.
Amplitude gain stability was as good or better than the VLA
antennas.
The back-end system temperature was fixed at 6.3K -- it never changed
throughout.
Sensitivity: The rms noise on cold sky, following calibration on
3C84,
showed a loss by the usual 10 to 20% compared to good VLA antennas.
*** This loss factor seems universal to all bands ***
B) Line Mode:
Everything behaved normally. No spins, no drops. Good stuff.
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