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Skydips are special scans where the antenna is moved in elevation at a
fixed azimuth. For each elevation (regularly spaced in airmass), total
power from the sky,
, and the hot load,
, are
recorded. Since one knows the effective temperature of the hot load,
, one can derive either the receiver temperature,
,
or the forward efficiency ,
, via:
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Gildas manager
2024-03-28