[evlatests] Ant 24 S-band

Ken Sowinski ksowinsk at nrao.edu
Thu Jun 4 16:50:01 EDT 2009


On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, Ken Sowinski wrote:

> On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, Chuck Kutz wrote:
>
>> The S-band is installed in ant 24 and is cooling down nicely. The feed
>> is rotated off compared to the other two antennas(with receivers), we
>> are going to correct this, but it was not in the cards for the moment.
>
> It works.  The polarizations are consistent with the other two
> antennas.  Delays have been set, so useful observations are
> possible.  Tomorrow I will figure out how to do pointing and focus.

Collimations were measured over lunch today and analyzed.  The
largest error was about an arc minute.  Focus for ea24 has been
set; the others were already done.  We now have three antennas
working at S band and suitable for more testing.




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