[evlatests] Ku-band holography tests
Rick Perley
rperley at nrao.edu
Fri Apr 27 15:58:48 EDT 2012
In preparation for the weekend Ku-band holography, we did a test run
of the holography scripts prepared by Michiel.
Eighteen antennas are now working well at Ku-band! Amplitude and
phase stability look extremely good.
There is a large delay error for ea11, in IFs A and C only. (-30
nsec for both). All others look fine.
There is evidence of a significant collimation error for ea01 (from
the holography scans) -- this is not a big deal, but if it could be
found and corrected, that would be useful.
In the light of Vivek's finding of bandpass instability, I checked
the BP solutions with BPLOT. For these Ku-band data, all look
excellent, with changes (on timescales of 30 minutes) less than 1%. The
calibrator scans were short, so SNR was not high, however.
We're ready to do the dish surveys this weekend.
Rick
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