[evlatests] Antenna Data Quality
Rick Perley
rperley at nrao.edu
Wed Aug 27 13:23:49 EDT 2008
In preparation for the annual 'flux density run', I'm carefully
reviewing antenna performance at all bands, and various frequencies.
From last night, I find the following issues: (All antennas were
in the array)
P-Band:
No fringes from antennas 1, 4, or 5.
Very weak fringes on 21A, 26A, 26B, 18C, 18D, 3C, 3D.
No switched cal (or a hugely erratic switched cal) on antenna 21.
L-Band:
Very weak fringes on antenna 5, all IFs.
C-Band:
No fringes from antenna 21, all IFs.
Very weak (low by a factor of 100) fringes from 25, all IFs.
Antenna 3, IFs B and D, failed to tune on two scans.
X-Band:
All antenna working as expected.
U-Band:
All (remaining) antennas working well.
K-Band
Antenna 11 gave no fringes on IFs A, B, or C (but did on D!)
Q-Band
No fringes from antennas 3 and 5.
There are various initialization problems (especially at K and Q bands,
due to the 'subreflector rotation trick').
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