[evlatests] Antenna 1, LCP, 16 nsec delay changes
Rick Perley
rperley at nrao.edu
Sat Sep 26 11:05:39 EDT 2009
In yesterday's cursory review of the new WIDAR data, I had noted
that antenna 1, in LCP, did not give good fringes on two of the 42
separate observations. I dutifully flagged these out, and proceeded as
normal. But there was clearly something odd about this antenna-IF, so
this morning I looked a little more closely....
It turns out that the delays for this antenna-IF changed during
those two 'dead' scans, so that the subsequent observations each had a
different delay. The change in delay is a notable number: *exactly* -
16 nsec. So, the data from 23:14:10 through 23:34:45 have a delay -16
nsec less than that at the beginning of the run, while the data from
23:34:45 through to the end have a delay exactly -32 nsec less than that
at the beginning.
To emphasize: This only occurred on antenna 1, in LCP. RCP is rock
solid.
And also to emphasize: All other antennas, on both polarizations,
have rock-steady delays. Changes are less than 1 nsec throughout the 90
minutes of observation.
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