[evlatests] Ant 13 K-band attenuators reset
Walter Brisken
wbrisken at aoc.nrao.edu
Wed Apr 5 15:10:20 EDT 2006
I commited new attenuator values to the parameter database today. All 4
IFs wanted 9 dB less attenuation, in fairly good agreement with the 10dB
extra dB added in hardware as per below.
-Walter
> We did notice that the IF power at the input to the LO/IF Rack was about -20
> dBm on cold sky, which seems a bit high for the T304 downconverter. We
> suspect that the RF amp on the T304 is likely being saturated. We added 10 dB
> pads on the Rx outputs (i.e., before the UX Converter) to help ensure that
> neither the T303 or T304 were running into compression. However, we might
> need to add more. Perhaps someone in the Systems Group might want to check on
> what the optimum power levels should be.
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