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Local Oscillator Transmitter and Receiver

  The local oscillator (LO) transmitter and receiver multiplies the 100 MHz from the maser to 500 MHz and sends it to the antenna vertex room. A round trip phase measuring scheme monitors the length of the cable used to transmit the signal so that phase corrections can be made for temperature and pointing induced variations.