[evlatests] C-Band Switched DAta
Rick Perley
rperley at nrao.edu
Wed Jun 22 16:56:08 EDT 2011
Same experiment as described earlier. Cygnus A at 6cm doubles the
system temperature.
About half the antennas show neither a zero offset (when switched
power is turned off), nor PDif compression when observing Cygnus A. The
other half show varying degrees of the following:
A) Most show PDif compression, typically a few percent, but as large
as 30% for antenna 24 in RCP.
B) Some show PDif *expansion* -- antennas 2, 4, and 28 do this in
some of their IFs.
C) Most antennas with compression or expansion also show zero
offsets with the switched power turned off. It seems to be true that
the 'expanded' antennas show positive offset, and the compressed
antennas show a negative offset.
As noted for the other bands, some antenna-IFs show power levels far
from where they should be -- by up to a factor of 10 ...
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