[evlatests] RFI sweep June 2015

[Ken Sowinski]

On Mon, 13 Jul 2015, Ken Sowinski wrote:

> On Wed, 8 Jul 2015, Ken Sowinski wrote:
>
>>  On Wed, 8 Jul 2015, Huib Intema (NRAO) wrote:
>> 
>> >   Since P-band is a standard observing band, and in terms of RFI not much
>> >   worse than other low frequency bands, it would be useful to include it 
>> >   in
>> >   tests like this. This is relevant for both continuum observing as 
>> >   (future)
>> >   spectral line observing.
>>
>>  I will extend the sweep to P band.  I assume the same spectral
>>  resolution as that used for all the other bands is adequate?
>
> I have extended the RFI sweep to include P band.  A test
> was run today; is someone willing to look at the data to
> verify that I have the desired tuning.  I arbitrarily chose
> to use 256 MHz centered at 328 MHz covered by 16 x 16 MHz
> subbands.
>
> Prfi_survey_125kHz_001 was run at around 2021 UT today,
> July 13.  I stopped it shortly after the L band scan began.

Emmanual examined this test and suggested moving the center
frequency 24 MHz higher to match the default P band tuning.
That has been done.  The "official" RFI sweep script now includes
P band as the first scan.  It will be used at the next RFI
observation.