[evlatests] Antennas with flaky switches at X-band
Rick Perley
rperley at nrao.edu
Wed Jan 25 15:36:06 EST 2012
The flux densities run required about 2000 band changes over the 30
hours -- a good test for the reliability of the band switches.
The X-band system seems particularly susceptible to the PDif changes
which we associated with bad switches. (In short, power changes of less
than 1 dB, and time variability within a single scan). The following
antennas were especially ratty in their PDif values. Note that the BD
side was tuned to 11.0 GHz, so only the new receivers gave data.
1 A, C
2 A, C
4 A, C
8 A
9 A
13 A, C
14 A, C
16 A
19 C -- this one is especially bad!
20 A
24 A and C
26 A
14 D
16 D
18 B and D -- these are really, really bad (showing major power
changes which may be unrelated to the switches)
24 D
25 B
26 B and D
All the others are quite good.
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