[evlatests] antenna 24 AC - update

Ken Sowinski ksowinsk at nrao.edu
Wed Jan 17 19:15:07 EST 2007


On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Jim Jackson wrote:

> Actually, Rob replaced that L302 synthesizer first thing this morning - 
> Sorry, I forgot to send out the message that he did it.  This L302 has the 
> new non-AGC firmware in it.  If it's still doing the exact same thing, then 
> something else must be wrong.  If it's happening on X-band, then the only 
> other thing I can see they have in common is that A and C use the auto level 
> setting in the T304.  Does everything seem OK with that?  Can anyone think of 
> a way the auto level setting function misbehaving could cause this symptom?
>
> The only other thing I can think of is the cable length to the L302 reference 
> inputs though I thought that problem displayed different symptoms.
>
> Jim

Today when I had a chance to look at antenna 24 it appeared
to be stable.  This was after a lot of time was spent by Kerry
getting the DTS modules to work properly.  I know of no other
changes to the antenna since yesterday.

Ken


> At 04:22 PM 1/16/2007, Ken Sowinski wrote:

>> Today it looks like 24AC is still doing this so I guess
>> nothing has been done yet.  If it looks like it will be
>> a while before the lab calibration can take place I vote
>> for cannibalizing antenna 17 now that we have seen first
>> fringes.



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