Initial commissioning observations for the C-band (4-6 GHz) receiver
showed a variation in measured Tsys/Tcal across the 40 and 20 MHz
passbands which can appear to be a ripple in the Tsys/Tcal spectrum of
a receiver if spectra are concatenated. The amplitude can be as large
as 10% of the system temperature. This has probably colored the
baseline measurements made with other receivers. Comparisons between
the spectral processor and the spectrometer suggest that this ripple
probably resides in the spectral processor. Also, since the magnitude
of the ripple is a function of input power level it appears that this
effect may be related to the quantization. The wavelength of the
ripple matches the spectral processor bandwidth and the amplitude
appears to increase with bandwidth.