[evlatests] new rubidium standard
Terry Cotter
tcotter at nrao.edu
Tue Mar 24 17:14:26 EDT 2009
I have just been informed that the double maintenance days have been
changed to Apr 14-15, I will change the Rubidium then.
Terry Cotter wrote:
> We have a new Standford Research systems rubidium frequency standard to
> replace the old HP rubidium standard at the VLA. This is the backup for
> the maser. On the next double maintenance days Apr 7-8, I would like to
> install this standard and run the VLA on it over night. I understand
> that there is a VLBI run on Apr 8 after maintenance day is over.
> Switching from the maser will glitch everything, but we should have time
> to reset on both days. I hope to test this new standard to make sure
> there are no hidden problems and understand better what happens to the
> array when we switch standards. I would like someone to check the data
> using the new standard.
>
> Terry
>
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