[evlatests] EVLA Misbehavior Last Nigh
Barry Clark
bclark at nrao.edu
Fri May 4 12:20:14 EDT 2007
Oh, I forgot to mention. Antenna 24 was also doing that during the day
yesterday. It was totally freaking out Telcal, which I was using heavily,
so I stopped including it.
> 1) Antenna 24 is seriously misbehaving. The A and C IFs have
> perhaps a dozen abrupt drops in amplitude, by about 30%. The drops are
> simultaneous in both IFs, but are always 'single' -- the next 1.67
> second record is at the proper level. The B and D IF behavior shows the
> same drops (simultaneously with the A and C), *** and in addition***
> have major and long-lasting changes in amplitude -- by a factor of two.
> The phase behavior of this antenna is terrible -- large (> 50 degree)
> jumps, probably coincident in time with the amplitude jumps. The phase
> jumps are never 'single' -- the jump in phase is retained for tens of
> seconds until another jump -- which rarely returns to the same phase.
>
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