[evlatests] P-band sampled voltages
Walter Brisken
wbrisken at aoc.nrao.edu
Wed Feb 8 19:03:48 EST 2006
Ken noted strong spectral features at P-band on antenna 14. I explored
the deformatter sampled voltages...
Antenna 14 was set up in the standard P-band mode. I captured
4096 voltage samples from each IF from the D351 module. Histograms of the
sampled data showed a distribution consistent with a single dominant
sinusoid. In IFs B and D this dominant feature is at exactly 1/4 the
sample rate (that is one half the nyquist rate). For IFs A and C the
feature lies 6 MHz lower in frequency as is expected for the default
setting if the feature is present in the RF. About 99.8% of the total
power across the 1 GHz sampled band is in this one spectral feature. IFs
A and B also have spectral features at 646 and 640 MHz respectively above
baseband containing approximately 1/500 the total power. This is likely
aliased power since the feature appears at higher frequency in the A/C
IFs.
-Walter
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