[evlatests] MUOS RFI
Rick Perley
rperley at nrao.edu
Mon Jun 23 16:21:46 EDT 2014
Tracy wrote that the MUOS spectra cover 64 MHz, from 320 -- 384 MHz.
That's quite a bit more than we actually see.
I took some high-resolution (time and frequency) data last week to
check P-band sensitivity. There was a good mix of long (A-config) and
short (D-config) baselines. The MUOS spectral are blindingly obvious on
all the short spacings.
The main RFI are in four blocks, each covering 5.00 MHz:
360.5 -- 364.5
365.5 -- 369.5
370.5 -- 364.5
375.5 -- 379.5
These are broad band signals with no spectral features. They
disappear quite well in the long spacings.
But in addition, there are six strong but narrow (effectively CW)
signals at:
353.25
355.81
356.81
358.56
359.31
359.81
The spectral intensity is much higher in these, but since they are
so narrow, there is little power.
I hadn't seen these six CW signals before. I'm guessing there's
part of the 'MUOS" spectrum.
We'd better hope the part of the spectrum noted by Tracy is
belonging to MUOS, but within which we see no RFI, stay that way. The
320 -- 360 MHz spectrum is the most sensitive part of the band.
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