[evlatests] antenna 23 pointing
Ken Sowinski
ksowinsk at nrao.edu
Mon Dec 18 16:49:44 EST 2006
There was a pointing run Friday night and antenna 23
was included. The results for 23 are better than
the last time this was tried but there still seems
to be problems. Nonetheless I think we can solve
for tilt well enough for our purposes, so I declare
my willingness to have the antenna moved whenever
everyone else agrees is a good time.
Some details. The fit to the traditional pointing
model is still poor, which suggests that something
unmodeled is going on. Adding the n*az terms for
n=2,3 results in large coefficients for those terms
but only a modest improvement in the fit. Further
evidence that something unmodeled is going on.
I can think of four things to look at.
1. a 3 dB tracking test
2. be sure that the amplitude response is stable
on the timescale of a pointing trial. (this
seems to be the case.)
3. be sure that all four IFs are working in case the
squint compensation in PEEK is not done right.
4. try a long track on a single source of pointing
trials to see that errors change smoothly.
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