[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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