[evlatests] Results from WIDAR 'stress' tests, Saturday afternoon.
Michael Rupen
mrupen at nrao.edu
Sun Dec 20 17:48:30 EST 2009
> 4) The low sensitivity seen with antenna 27 at K-band with WIDAR is
> ***not*** seen in the VLA correlator data. This might be interpreted
> as something caused by the formatter -- but this antenna gives perfectly
> good data at C-band through WIDAR. So the only plausible solution (that
> comes to my mind) is in pointing. But this would require that the VLA
> K-band observation have referenced pointing done. Looking at the logs
> indicates this is not possible -- only one minute passed between the end
> of the WIDAR K-band test and the beginning of the VLA corrrelator test...
Neither the WIDAR nor the VLA correlator observations employed referenced
pointing -- I was trying to make these as similar as possible.
The only correlator-based oddity I know of for ea27-A (RCP) is that
this uses Station Board s001-t-1, which still does not appear on the CPCC
GUI. But there's no sign of anything odd on the Station Board GUI, and
I don't see how this could be related. It would be mildly interesting
to know whether the amplitude of ea27's auto-correlations differs from
those of other antennas.
Michael
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