[evlatests] antenna status
Ken Sowinski
ksowinsk at nrao.edu
Wed Aug 9 12:47:46 EDT 2006
As Michael reported a few minutes ago there are a few problems.
I can confirm what he wrote and escribe a few other problems.
The ea24-l302-1 MIB is not responding; hence AC is dead.
The ea18-l302-1 fails to lock at L band (14368.1). Neither
retuning nor a reboot helped. It looks at all the other
bands used.
Antenna 18 has no power at C band. The M301 broke or something
has been disconnected.
Antenna 13 reports very low (~0.3 V) SD voltages, but the T_sys
appears to be OK because the amplitudes are very large.
Antenna 16 reports SD voltage of 0.0 at Q band. No fringes either.
The F320 claims that the noise tubes are on and switchning.
A few minutes were spent looking at relative G/T to see how
the EVLA antennas compare with the VLA antennas. Michael will
be able to preapre a more comprehensive report from his observations
this morning.
C band
14 is among the best
13, 16 are OK
18 was dead
L band
18 is among the best; but AC is dead; see above.
14, 16 are OK
13 is poor
X band
16 is the best
13, 14 are OK
18 is very bad; about 1/3 the expected power repsonse.
K band should not be taken seriously because pointing was
not checked, but...
13, 14, 18 are all comparable to VLA antennas
16 was a little worse
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