[evlatests] Another wide-band test
Rick Perley
rperley at nrao.edu
Tue Mar 20 18:20:47 EDT 2012
Ken set up another experiment with our full-bandwidth antennas.
This one is at Ku-band, using 3C84.
A quick perusal reveals a few issues:
1) ea23, in RCP has a sinusoidal ripple in both amplitude and phase,
in baseband #1 (subbands 1 through 16). The period of the ripple is
about 11 MHz.
2) ea19, in LCP, as a very similar problem, in baseband #2 (subbands
17 through 32).
3) Some of the 'subband 0' DC offsets appear to have gone away.
4) Some of the basebands are showing large steps in phase between
adjacent spectral windows. The phases, after removing the delay, should
be continuous within a baseband, but this is commonly not the case.
ea13, in baseband 4 (subbands 49 through 64), in LCP, is a particularly
bad example.
Because our 8-GHz span is larger than the BW of the Ku-band
receivers, Ken arranged the tuning to significantly overlap the nominal
ends (12 and 18 GHz). Remarkably, we are still getting good signals
down to 11.6 GHz, and up to 18.4 GHz.
The plan is to run this test again tonight, with a proper flux
density source.
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