[evlatests] Super-Birdie in Ka-band
Rick Perley
rperley at nrao.edu
Thu Dec 15 13:08:47 EST 2011
The whopping great birdie seen at 29440 MHz is still present in the
new 'RFI Sweep'. It is visible on all baselines, and both polarizations
-- and is strong enough to be easily seen in the autocorrelations. It
is not strong enough to 'collapse' the subband (meaning it contributes
no more than comparable power to the receiver noise within the 128
MHz-wide subband).
It is much stronger on some antennas than others. In RCP, the
dominant antennas are 8, 12, 15, 24, and 27. It is notably weak on
ea18. However, the picture is quite different in LCP ...
This birdie is not part of a comb structure. Ken showed earlier
this year that it is due to a 2nd harmonic of an LO.
Can we get rid of this?
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