[evlatests] X-Band PDif troubles
Rick Perley
rperley at nrao.edu
Tue Sep 18 15:56:59 EDT 2012
A 3.5 hour antenna gain-elevation test ran last week --
unfortunately, the script aborted too soon for useful gain functions to
be determined. But the data are of quite good quality, so some other
checks can be run.
At X-band, I find:
a) There is no useable switched power (PDif) on ea02 and ea27 on any
IF. All we see is zero-mean noise.
b) There is no useable switched power on ea12D. The other IFs look
good.
c) A number of the IFs show apparent gain changes which are likely
due to bad switches. (X-band follows Q-band in these tests). The most
notable unstable antennas are:
ea08A
ea18A and C
ea20A
ea23B and D
ea25A and C
ea26A
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