[evlatests] Ka-band PDif compression on the moon

Rick Perley rperley at nrao.edu
Fri Oct 5 13:47:31 EDT 2012


    For the Ka-band receivers, for this lunar test:

    ea04 has no receiver, and ea09 was out. 
    ea10B had a non-functioning PDif (now repaired, it seems). 
    All other antennas provided usable switched power. 

    The moon provides about 180 to 200 K increase -- approximately 
quadrupling to quintupling the total system power over cold sky.  Note 
that ea13 in RCP and ea26 in RCP have very noisy receiver (>1000 K for 
ea13, and >250 K for ea26) -- this means the moon's increment will be small.

    The compression table looks like this:

Antenna      A        B         C            D
-------------------------------------------------------
01              88        74       93          76
02              97        88       90          94
03              88        93       83          82
04                            no rcvr
05              92        98       84          82
06              92        84       70          80
07              95        96       93          92
08              48        56       85          85
09                                out
10              88        XX     95          86
11              86        80       84          84
12             102       87       74          81
13             100      100      85          90
14              87        83       41          59
15               89        91      78          71
16             100       34       76          78
17              93        96       79          77
18              98        84       88          88
19              75        70       90          89
20              97        88       84         89
21              93        81       79          70
22              96        90       85          80
23              86        90       79          76
24              94        96       80          75
25              86        75       86          82
26              94       100      93          89
27              97         94      77          81
28              95         90      65          71
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