[evlatests] BD T304 power meters and attenuators

Ken Sowinski ksowinsk at nrao.edu
Thu Jun 10 13:03:16 EDT 2010


On Thu, 10 Jun 2010, Michael Rupen wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Jun 2010, Barry Clark wrote:
>
>> I'd incline to make LoIfSetup default to SETANDREMEMBER for 8 bits
>> and SETLEVEL for three bits for all basebands, and OPT could just
>> not set things unless there's some special reason to change.
>
> What do these two options do?

SETLEVEL is what I called "ALC".  It servos the attenuators
at the beginnin of a scan to acheive a desired power level.

SETANDREMEMBER does the above the first time and then remembers
that attenuator setting in the LoIfSetup to be used for future
scans.




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