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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 is supported in the RDBE (Section 6.9), and also in the VLBA DiFX correlator. Application of these measurements for amplitude calibration is discussed in Section 12.



Jon Romney 2012-01-05