[evlatests] ea02 summary
Ken Sowinski
ksowinsk at nrao.edu
Thu Jun 26 19:35:49 EDT 2008
Collimations have now been set for all bands, including Q band.
Performance is about what we expect at X and K bands and, maybe,
Q band as well. However all is not well at L and C bands.
C band is clearly worse than all the other EVLA antennas, and
some VLA antennas. At L band the fringe amplitude against a
good antenna is about half what we expect; about one-fourth
in power. I have looked for culprits and have found none.
since the problem is much worse at L band I have looked for
causes there. It is not optics or T_sys because the deflection
in total power going on and off 3C273 is the same as another
EVLA antenna. Delay errors are of order a ns. That only leaves
an LO coherency problem, but it is hard to see why L band is
affected more than C band; and why K and Q bands are unaffected.
Crossed hand power in L band is a small fraction of parallel
hand power so we do not have an OMT problem.
Any ideas?
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