[evlatests] Some clarity on 3 bit sampler issues ...

Michael Rupen mrupen at nrao.edu
Fri Sep 10 11:36:39 EDT 2010


>     Bottom line here is:  There in indeed extra noise in the 3-bit
> path, amounting to about 15 to 20% over the 8-bit path.
> There is (I claim) no asymmetry between RCP and LCP -- we have a couple
> of bad antennas/samplers on the RCP side.   The origin of the additional
> noise is yet to be determined.

Of course we're still left with the asymmetry that the very noisy
samplers are all RCP.  There I think Barry's caution is a good one --
small number statistics are quite likely to put 2 bad samplers (of 8 total)
in a single pol'n, purely by chance.

          Michael




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