[evlatests] Q-band 'Failure to Tune'
Rick Perley
rperley at nrao.edu
Tue Feb 9 11:40:42 EST 2016
We ran the (final!) beam holography run last night, at Q-band. Two
separate tuning pairs, with X-band referenced pointing.
A repeated 'failure to tune' was noted in both tuning pairs:
Following X-band referenced pointing, antennas 15 and 18 usually
gave no fringes on the following Q-band observation. Fringes returned
in all cases on the next calibration scan (with no X-band in between).
One characteristic of this failure mode makes it different from
that which Ken and Hichem diagnosed last week:
In all cases, both the AC and BD IFs gave no fringes.
As noted above this failure mode primarily affected ea15 and ea18
-- roughly eight separate times. Ea19 and ea20 both failed to tune one
time only (at different times).
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