[evlatests] Ku-band RFI -- how bad it can be...
Dan Mertely
dmertely at nrao.edu
Fri Oct 18 16:01:40 EDT 2019
Ah. I see. So it's a clear case of "Doctor, Doctor, it
hurts when I beat my head against the wall ...." Actually
it's good to get a deep look at just what's out there--
thanks! -Mert
On 10/18/2019 1:58 PM, Rick Perley wrote:
> Dan:
>
> It probably has been this bad for a long time -- rather poor
> sampling of the data! I don't often look at X and Ku-band at objects in
> the 'Clarke' belt.
>
> Rick
>
> On 10/18/19 1:56 PM, Dan Mertely wrote:
>> Hi Rick. I'm surprised that the band seems worse than before.
>> The low Ku band, "Fixed Satellite, (space-to-earth)" (read GSO)
>> allocation is 11.7-12.2 GHz. Then from 12.2-12.7 is the broadcasting
>> satellite down-link band. Above that are the uplinks, which we are
>> unlikely to see (none nearby). So 11.7-12.7 GHz should have been
>> very noisy for years. -Mert
>>
>> On 10/18/2019 11:40 AM, Rick Perley via evlatests wrote:
>>> I distributed yesterday a 'waterfall' plot of severe X-band RFI,
>>> affecting the upper half of the band.
>>>
>>> Unsurprisingly, it extends well in Ku band. Attached here is a
>>> similar plot, for the spectral range 12 -- 14 GHz. This is a very
>>> short baseline (N1 x N2), with 1 second averaging, and 2 MHz spectral
>>> resolution. Time runs vertically, frequency horizontally. The
>>> X-axis is labeled in terms of spectral window and channel.
>>>
>>> The source is 3C273 -- the 'dark' side of the plot, at the
>>> higher frequencies, is RFI free, and is at a level of 18 Jy. The
>>> grey-scale is logarithmic, with the maximum at 567 Jy.
>>>
>>> The RFI cuts off at 12.7 GHz. Above that (at least to 16 GHz),
>>> the spectrum is really clean.
>>>
>>> Rick
>>>
>>>
>>>
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