[evlatests] Phase Hopping Antennas
Bryan Butler
bbutler at nrao.edu
Tue Aug 2 17:07:07 EDT 2011
this matches with claire seeing them on 7, 13, and 22.
-bryan
Rick Perley wrote, On 8/2/11 15:02 PM:
> It has been recently reported that some antennas are hopping phase
> upon change of source (and not necessarily when the band is changed).
>
> The 'switch stress test' provides an opportunity to look for this.
> To remove atmospheric effects, I differenced the phases from IFs 1 and
> 2, for each of RCP and LCP. The results are quite striking:
>
> There are three antennas which display frequent bad hopping.
>
> 1) Antenna 22 at all bands.
> 2) Antenna 13 at all bands *except* X and K.
> 3) Antenna 12 at all bands *except* X
>
> In addition, antenna 7 hops at most bands, but only did so on one or
> two scans.
> Antenna 9 and 11 also showed an occasional hop.
>
>
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