[evlatests] evla antenna problems
Ken Sowinski
ksowinsk at nrao.edu
Wed Sep 19 19:21:21 EDT 2007
EA13
It has a DTS problem. Jerry understands it and will take care
of it tomorrow. In addition the subreflector rotatoin index
seems to have slipped by a few degrees. There is a collimation
error of about 2.3 arc-min whose position angle, in az-el space,
varies with band. This was reported a while ago, but remains.
EA18
Jerry reports that it, too, suffers from the same DTS problem.
EA25
K band works, but even after correcting focus and pointing is
weaker than other antennas by about a factor of five. Steve
and I have both noticed the low SD voltage at K band.
possibilities are:
1. It is warm.
2. Optical misalignment so that we are seeing much more ground
than we should.
If it were only that the T-cal were too weak, antenna performance
would not be affected.
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