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BACKEND BBC

    BBC                         ! Broad  Band Continuum Backend

    BBC works only with the EMIR receiver.  One part of BBC always covers
    the full 8 GHz bandwidth of each sideband of each polarization of each
    EMIR band selected with the RECEIVER command.

    Band  Sidebands      IF      Width  Polariz.  # BBC parts
                         [GHz]   [GHz]            -----------

    E090  LSB and USB    4--12    8     H and V       4
    E150  LSB and USB    4--12    8     H and V       4
    E230  LSB and USB    4--12    8     H and V       4
    E330  LSB and USB    4--12    8     H and V       4

    Shortcut: after selecting EMIR bands and subbands, BACKEND BBC
    /DEFAULT automatically sets all this appropriately!


Gildas manager 2023-06-01