GBT Commissioning Memos

List of Memos sorted by memo number and/or release date.

Memo 1: Frequency Checks of the GBT RF/IF/LO System (PDF: 436 Kbytes)
    McKinnon and Maddalena
    January 20, 2001 

Memo 2: GBT Spectrometer Tests at L-Band (PDF: 1.1 Mbytes)
    Langston and Lacasse
    January 23, 2001

Memo 3: GBT IF Tests (PDF: 601 Kbytes)
    Balser
    January 22, 2001

Memo 4: L-band Reflection Measurement (PDF: 93 Kbytes)
   
Norrod and Stennes
    February 20, 2001

Memo 5: GBT PF 800 MHz Pointing (PDF: 458 Kbytes)
    Balser, Maddalena, Ghigo, and Langston
    March 2, 2001

Memo 6: GBT S-band (2 GHz) Pointing (PDF: 995 Kbytes)
    Balser, Maddalena, Ghigo, and Langston
    March 23, 2001

Memo 7: Gregorian Focus Calibration at S-band: empirical determination of optimum subreflector focus tracking in X and Y (PDF: 53 Kbytes)
    Ghigo, Maddalena, Balser,  and Langston
    March 29, 2001

Memo 8: Comparison of feed arm metrology with focus tracking measurements (PDF: 16 Kbytes)
    Ghigo and Maddalena
    April 2, 2001

Memo 9: GBT S-band (2 GHz) Pointing Stability (PDF: 540 Kbytes)
    Balser, Langston, Maddalena, and Ghigo
    April 6, 2001

Memo 10: Gain and Efficiency at S-Band (PDF: 96 Kbytes)
    Ghigo, Maddalena, Balser, and Langston
   May 10, 2001

Memo 11: Plate Scale and Pointing Effects of Subreflector Positioning at 2 GHz (PDF: 164 Kbytes)
  
VanWey, Ghigo, Maddalena, Balser, Langston, and McKinnon
   July 18, 2001

Memo 12: GBT Prime Focus (Band 1-4): Focus Tracking (PDF: 704 Kbytes)
   Balser, Ghigo, Maddalena, and Langston
   August 23, 2001

Memo 13: Wide-Bandwidth Spectrometer Measurements at X-Band (PDF: 1006 Kbytes)
   Dennison
   August 25, 2001

Memo 14: GBT Prime Focus (Band 1-4): All Sky pointing at 800 MHz (PDF: 619 Kbytes)
   Balser, Maddalena, Ghigo, and Langston
   September 14, 2001

Memo 15: Spectrometer Tests with IF Rack Noise Source (PDF: 357 Kbytes)
   Langston, Balser, Maddalena, and Ghigo
   September 17, 2001

Memo 16: Improvements to the GBT Refraction Model (PDF: 294 Kbytes)
    Maddalena, Ghigo, Balser, and Langston
    January 23, 2002

Memo 17: GBT X-band (9.6 GHz): All-Sky Pointing (PDF: 556 Kbytes)
    Balser, Maddalena, Ghigo, and Langston
    January 30, 2002

Memo 19: RFI Survey at S-Band (1.7-2.6 GHz) (PDF: 466 kBytes)
    F. Ghigo
    February 25, 2002

Memo 20: GBT X-band (9.6 GHz): Pointing Stability (PDF: 585 Kbytes)
    Balser, Maddalena, Ghigo, and Langston
    March 10, 2002

Memo 21: Comparison of GBT Backend Total Intensity Measurements (PDF: 682 Kbytes)
    Langston, Balser, Ghigo, and Maddalena
    February 2, 2002

Memo 22: Comparison of Engineer's and Astronomical Noise Diode Values for Four Receivers  (PDF: 1221 Kbytes)
    Johnson, Maddalena, Ghigo, and Balser
    December 3, 2002

Memo 23: Calibrating the GBT at L, C, and X Bands (PDF: 1845 kBytes)
    Heiles, Robishaw, Troland, and Roshi
    March 16, 2003

Memo 24: Apparent Temperatures of Mercury, Mars, Saturn and Venus at X Band (PDF: 1097 kBytes)
    Langston, Braatz, Ghigo, Maddalena, Minter, and O'Neil
    April 6, 2004

Memo 25: GBT Calibration and Efficiency at 285-400 MHz (PDF: 744 kBytes)
    Langston and Orban
    July 13, 2004