[evlatests] K-band

Ken Sowinski ksowinsk at nrao.edu
Tue Jul 15 12:12:52 EDT 2008


On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Rob Long wrote:

> The EVLA antennas appear to be working at K-band (as far as the
> hardware), but several of the B and D RMS levels are high.
>
> With so many antennas not fringing, I don't believe this is an antenna
> hardware issue.

The array is observing in K band right now, about 23.5 GHz.
There are a number of antennas with weak fringe response.
the problem is not shadowing.  It does seem that the worst
of the EVLA antennas have high system temperatures; I cannot
easily examine the VLA antennas.

Cryo or water or ???





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