[evlatests] X-band performance, from last night.

Ken Sowinski ksowinsk at aoc.nrao.edu
Tue Jun 20 14:08:02 EDT 2006


On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Rick Perley wrote:

>    For IFs B and D, the situation is more bizarre, as nearly all VLA 
> antennas 'jumped' by differing amounts, always the same between IFs B 
> and D.  The changes are comparable to the EVLA's jumps, which were also 
> identical between B and D.

This might be a Fluke problem.  There was a Fluke problem
a few days ago (I don't remember which IF) which, perhaps,
has not gone away yet.

>      Antenna 24 has a very low AIPS weight -- 2nd worst in the array --
> whose cause is easily found to be in the Tsys:  reported at 100K.

Focus has not been looked at yet for antenna 24.  It might
be off by close to a wavelength at X band.




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