[evlatests] More Missing Scans
Rick Perley
rperley at nrao.edu
Wed Mar 9 10:16:14 EST 2011
The first 'receiver rotation' observation (pre-rotation) was made
yesterday evening. There are 12 different tunings involved, each
including a strong source (3C147 to measure cross-polarization) and
nearby noise field (to measure sensitivity). The order of observing was:
L -> XLo -> XHi -> CLo -> CHi -> S
with this cycle repeated twice.
Each runing, except L-band, is an 'extended OSRO' style mode with 1 GHz
bandwidth, and the two IF pairs split to cover adjacent 1 GHz 'chunks'.
At L-band, the subbandwidths are reduced to 64 MHz, so the two IF pairs
cover the lower and upper halves of the 1 GHz bandwidth.
I should have gotten two observations (each with two sources) at
each tuning. But for both X-band tunings, I got only one. The first
time around resulted in no data in the archive. Fortunately, for this
experiment, the second cycle did provide data.
The conversion from L to X involves a correlator reconfiguration,
right? Are we seeing this old problem again, or is something else
happening?
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