[evlatests] Band Nomenclature
Bryan Butler
bbutler at nrao.edu
Tue Dec 11 18:46:32 EST 2007
i'm not arguing not to use band designations, i see their utility,
rather just not to use the shorthand of "A" instead of "Ka". "because
we used it for Ku on the VLA" seems to me to be a specious argument.
-bryan
Robert Hayward wrote:
>
>>From a logistical point of view, it's a lot easier for those of us trying
> to keep track of all our front-ends to refer to, say, Ka-Band receiver
> serial number 16 as "A#16" rather than receiver "26-40GHz#16" or
> "33GHz#16" or "0.9cm#16" or "9mm#16. Note that I've used the shorthand
> version by dropping the K in Ka, just like we did for the VLA's Ku-Band
> receivers.
>
> As Jim alluded too, NASA's Deep Space Network uses the Ka designation, as
> they do for S and X-Band as well.
>
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