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New IF Unit

A new IF switching unit will be installed in early 1995. This will allow automatic setting of IF power level and switch-over between receivers. It is also designed to provide a single channel with 1800 MHz of instantaneous bandwidth.

The amount of usable bandwidth will depend on the receiver. However, we hope that RxC2 will have reasonable performance over ~1400 MHz.

RxB3 (CU) and RxW may also have a similar bandwidth. RxA2 and RxB3i will still be limited to ~600 MHz.

In this wideband mode, only one channel of a dual-polarisation receiver can be used.

Bill Dent / JAC
Contact: Antonio Chrysostomou. Updated: Tue Aug 17 17:32:16 HST 2004

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