[evlatests] K-Band
Rick Perley
rperley at aoc.nrao.edu
Mon Apr 10 19:03:35 EDT 2006
And finally, K-Band from this weekend's data.
Good fringes, with reasonably normal amplitudes, were found from both
antennas 14 (IFs A and C) and 16 (all IFs). Antenna 13 gave very weak
fringes -- just enough to see the steady phase wind reported earlier.
Referenced pointing, however, worked only for antenna 14. I don't know
why it failed for antenna 16.
Sensitivity for both antennas is very poor -- well beneath any other VLA
antenna, with the 'weights' being about a factor of 2 to 3 below the VLA
median.
Tsys data are completely normal for antennas 14 and 16 (and indeed,
for the
latter, are about 37K -- better than can be reasonably believed).
Antenna 13 gave Tsys values of 600 K. That's not right! We do have a
UX converter in this antenna now, right? We should see reasonble Tsys?
We need to recheck all this tomorrow, if the winds let us.
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