[mmaimcal] pads for test interferometer
Bryan Butler
bbutler at aoc.nrao.edu
Mon Feb 7 18:13:01 EST 2000
min wrote:
> Just a quick thinking on the longest baseline of 1 km or longer.
> The only reason for having one is to test the phase correction
> schemes such as fast switching or radiometric phase correction.
> 1 km is often where the knee of the phase function is, so it
> might make sense to go out even further, say 3 km, if the cost
> of cabling etc is not too high or not limited by the correlator, etc.
yes, this is a good point. though it's not the only reason - i would
think that just testing out the delay system at 1mm over a 10km
baseline would be a good test, maybe?
-bryan
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