[evlatests] antenna 1
Ken Sowinski
ksowinsk at nrao.edu
Thu Dec 6 19:26:52 EST 2007
It sort of works.
The signal paths look OK at L and X bands. And fringes are obtained.
There is no, or little, noise getting to the downconverter
at K band.
Early in the day it was difficult because the subreflector appeared
to be stuck close to the right place for L band. That was fixed in
mid afternoon. After that nothing worked and the problem was
eventully found to be that the subreflector rotation positions are
now about half a turn from where they were when measured last week.
X band differs by about 192 degrees, L band by about 180 degrees.
The difference is probably accounted for by unknown pointing errors.
Delays have been made close at X band, but not much else can be done
until the subreflector is properly indexed or re-zeroed because
pointing errors and rotation errors are degenerate.
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