3. Frequency transfer during CONT11
CONT11 was a 15 d campaign of continuous VLBI sessions observed september 15–30, 2011. The campaign was scheduled in daily sessions (0–24 UT) so that data or results could easily be combined with other space geodetic techniques over the same time-span. In total 14 VLBI stations participated in the CONT11 campaign, but only 11 of the network stations shared a common frequency standard with a co-located GPS receiver [17].
Furthermore, unfortunately some of the stations were excluded because they experienced technical or observational problems. For example, the stations Badary and Zelenchukskaya experienced strong radio frequency interference (RFI) disturbances in several of the observed frequency bands. The station Tigo Concepción performed rather poorly, mainly due to its small antenna size and several other sites had clock jumps of the VLBI equipment or missing GPS data. Although small antennas, like Tigo, are very attractive as they can be easily deployed at arbitrary sites, technology which was available during CONT11 causes a significant performance degradation that comes with shrinking the antenna diameter w.r.t. the average size of the other VLBI dishes in the network. This drawback is currently being worked on and thought to be overcome by switching to broad-band receiving systems (see section 5). Thus, the further analysis concentrates in the following mainly on the sub-set of 6 of the CONT11 stations shown in figure 2.
3. Frequency transfer during CONT11CONT11 was a 15 d campaign of continuous VLBI sessions observed september 15–30, 2011. The campaign was scheduled in daily sessions (0–24 UT) so that data or results could easily be combined with other space geodetic techniques over the same time-span. In total 14 VLBI stations participated in the CONT11 campaign, but only 11 of the network stations shared a common frequency standard with a co-located GPS receiver [17].Furthermore, unfortunately some of the stations were excluded because they experienced technical or observational problems. For example, the stations Badary and Zelenchukskaya experienced strong radio frequency interference (RFI) disturbances in several of the observed frequency bands. The station Tigo Concepción performed rather poorly, mainly due to its small antenna size and several other sites had clock jumps of the VLBI equipment or missing GPS data. Although small antennas, like Tigo, are very attractive as they can be easily deployed at arbitrary sites, technology which was available during CONT11 causes a significant performance degradation that comes with shrinking the antenna diameter w.r.t. the average size of the other VLBI dishes in the network. This drawback is currently being worked on and thought to be overcome by switching to broad-band receiving systems (see section 5). Thus, the further analysis concentrates in the following mainly on the sub-set of 6 of the CONT11 stations shown in figure 2.
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