[evlatests] Receiver gains
Barry Clark
bclark at nrao.edu
Mon Jun 28 15:37:23 EDT 2010
I have been speculating about whether receiver gains are sufficiently
similar that we could use a standard attenuator setting at the low
bands and thereby avoid getting confused by setting attenuators in the
presence of interference. The tentative answer is 'no'.
I ran a couple of the standard setupfiles, which use 'SETLEVEL' to
control the attenuators in A and C IFs, and looked at how much
attenuation was put in by the T304s for several antennas.
At L band, the attenuation ranged from 11 dB in ea08-t304-c to 34 dB
in ea09-t304-c. (The antenna 8 receiver is low in both IFs. Excluding
ea08, the range is from 20 dB in ea26-t304-c to 34 dB in ea09-t304-c.)
At S band, the situation is a bit better, but only a bit. The range is
from 16 dB in ea27-t304-c to 31 dB in ea09-t304-c.
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