[evlatests] Internal Birdie at 1408.25 MHz

Ken Sowinski ksowinsk at nrao.edu
Mon Jul 13 18:15:39 EDT 2009


On Mon, 13 Jul 2009, Rick Perley wrote:

>    We are seeing in recent tests the presence of a strong birdie,
> centered at 1408.25 MHz.    The characteristics of this RFI strongly
> indicate is is *NOT* of external origin:

Here is some numerology.

The first LO was set to 12928 MHz for this observation.
The API generates a comb with 298.611 MHz spacing.
Its 48th harmonic is 14336 MHz, and 14336-12928
is 1408 MHz.

Should we try this again with the API turned off?
If this were the source, I might expect to see other
teeth of the comb as well.




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