[evlatests] Sampler statistics with fully attenuated T304s
Walter Brisken
wbrisken at aoc.nrao.edu
Wed Nov 9 22:06:26 EST 2005
A few of us were wondering at one point what the sampler output would be
for a zero input level. The closest I could come was to set both the RF
and OUTPUT attenuators in the t304s to 31dB and place an upper limit on
the self noise of the samplers. Here are the histograms in text form for
the 8 samplers:
level 14A 14B 14C 14D 16A 16B 16C 16D
-6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
-5 0 0 0 0 0 1 43248
-4 707 0 0 0 0 175431 934787
-3 985383 0 0 0 2 873047 70541
-2 62486 2640 0 12740 884886 97 0
-1 0 1045355 67102 1035809 163688 0 0
0 0 581 772727 27 0 0 0
1 0 0 208522 0 0 0 0
2 0 0 225 0 0 0 0
3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ant 16 T304A seems dead.
Note that for 14C all values of L304.OBSERVE_BAND_SELECT (except 5, which
was used in the above) gave a wider distribution so it is likely that
the width is due to some signal still getting through the attenuators.
Aside from 14C (and not commenting about 16A) a limit of less than 1
sampler unit of noise is incurred in the sampling.
-Walter
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