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2003FEB24

Observations at 800 MHz with the Prime Focus 1 receiver are presented to determine frequencies free of Radio Frequency Interference (RFI). A table of RFI features is included.

  • The 700 to 900 MHz band has regions about 40 MHz wide, that are relatively free of RFI.
  • Two resonnances in the 800 MHz feed cause high system temperature and low gain over two 2 MHz bands.
Raw, un-calibrated, spectra over entire PF1 800 MHz RF band, when using the 240 MHz receiver filter. The gain of the system and RFI features are shown.

Ascii Data (2003_02_22_12:17:56A.0.log)

Calibrated spectra over entire PF1 800 MHz RF band, when using the 240 MHz receiver filter.

Ascii Data (2003_02_22_12:17:56A.1.log)

Raw, uncalibrated spectra showing the system gain and RFI features when using the 80 MHz Receiver filter.

Ascii Data (2003_02_22_12:21:39A.2.log)

Calibrated spectra showing the system temperature when using the 80 MHz Receiver filter.

Ascii Data (2003_02_22_12:21:39A.3.log)

RFI Table

The table below summarizes the strongest sources of RFI in the frequency range 750 to 900 MHz. The table also lists the redshift of neutral hydrogen corresponding to this RFI frequency. The redshifts are calculated for the Delta_Frequency/Frequency convention.
Frequency Frequency Red RFI
Peak Width Shift Source Note
(MHz) (MHz) (z) Name
692.25 0.39 0.513 Channel 50 TV
696.63 1.29 0.510 Channel 50 TV
705.23 0.48 0.503 Channel 54 TV
712.34 4.66 0.500-0.495 Channel 54 TV
741.23 0.71 0.478 Channel 59 TV
753.27 0.69 0.470 Land Mobile strong RFI
777.25 0.69 0.453 strong RFI
781.75 0.72 0.449 strong RFI
795.29 0.46 0.440 Intermittent strong RFI
796.53 2.1 0.440-0.438 Feed Resonance not RFI
799.81 0.37 0.437 weaker RFI
817.77 2.1 0.425-0.423 Feed Resonance not RFI
856.28 0.78 0.397-0.396
869.64 0.92 0.387-0.388 weak RFI
880.34 1.95 0.381-0.379 weak RFI
894.27 0.79 0.370

Observing Setup

On 2003 February 22, Scott Ransom and Glen Langston made observations at 820 MHz with the GBT and Prime Focus 1 receiver. The system was set up for dual circular polarization observations. The 240 and 80 MHz Receiver filters were used.

The IF Rack optical drivers 1 and 3 were used. Converter modules 1 and 5 were used with converter filters 1 and 5. The spectrometer was set up in the 800 MHz wide, dual polarization, single quadrant mode. The spectrometer controled the noise diode switching at 4 Hz rate and three 20 second integrations were obtained.

The data were taken while the GBT was pointed towards pulsars PSR1220-15 and PSRJ1713+0747, but the pulsars were not detected in these observations.

For these tests, the adopted noise diode calibrations value was 3.675 K, for both Left Circular and Right Circular Polarization. This is the average of the liniear X and Y polarization values (2.72 and 4.63 K respectively).

These data are from directory:
/home/gbtdata/AGBT03A_027




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