(24jun12..
updated sefd,Tsys after fixing extended source correction) We had
first light with the 12meter telescope on 19jun12.
The setup:
This is not the final configuration of the electronics:
Dana used a temporary cable from the 1st amps down to the
12meter control box. It then hops on the fiber. Eventually we
will have the fiber go all the way to the 1st amps.
The pointing program is not "written". We used the ra,dec
tracking of in current coordinates provided by the patriot
program. I precessed the sources to the date of the
measurement.
The original pointing model was used.
I used x-el, el offsets to peak up on the source
500 MHz bandwidth at 8600 MHz was routed through the if/lo to
square law detectors with .2 sec time constant and then
digitized at 10 Hz rate.
We tracked the crab nebula (5x7 arcminutes) starting at about
3 hours after transit.