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6.3 Noise Cal

This device injects well calibrated, broadband noise, switched at 80 Hz in a 50% duty cycle. Synchronous detection will be supported in the RDBE (Section 6.9) and in the VLBA DiFX correlator. Application of these measurements for amplitude calibration is discussed in Section 12.



Claire Chandler 2011-01-06