[evlatests] K-band

[Ken Sowinski]

On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Ken Sowinski wrote:

> 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.

There are several receivers that appear to have high T_sys
and poor G/T.

K  ea01, ea05, ea11, ea25
X  ea25
C  ea19, ea24   (Rick has reported these)

There was nothing alrming at Q band; L band was not examined.