[evlatests] BD T304 power meters and attenuators

[Bryan Butler]

seems like you could do this all the way up to Ku (a single value), at 
least for 8-bit.  atmospheric effects are minimal until you get to K-band.

	-bryan


Barry Clark wrote, On 6/10/10 11:40:
> If things are better behaved with tables, it must be band dependent.
> An interesting thought would be to set L and S band attenuators to
> a single value independent of antenna, and do the high bands
> SETANDREMEMBER.
> 
> Bryan Butler wrote:
>> well, i agree it would be messy, but is it worth the pain to do so?  i 
>> keep hearing rumblings that BD is better behaved because of the lookup 
>> table vs. ALC - is that false rumor, or something to be heeded?
>>
>> 	-bryan
>>
>>
>> Ken Sowinski wrote, On 6/10/10 10:53:
>>> On Thu, 10 Jun 2010, Bryan Butler wrote:
>>>
>>>> did we decide to simply do away with the lookup tables entirely, or 
>>>> just not make it the default and still make it possible to turn them on?
>>> If lookup tables are not the defualt they will not be maintained
>>> and turning them on will, over time, turn into disaster.
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