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Antenna naming convention

An antenna can be specified by the index of the antenna or a regular expression. A full antenna name consists of three hyphen ('-') separated fields. The first field is the antenna name, the second is the side band name and the third is the polarization name. Each of the three fields can be a regular expression. All missing fields after the last specified field are replaced by "wild card" regular expressions.

E.g., a fully qualified name for C11, upper side band, 175-MHz polarization channel (nominally the LL polarization) can be expressed as:

C11-USB-175

All central square antennas, with upper side band and 130-MHz (nominally the RR polarization) polarization channel can be expressed as:

C.+-USB-130

(Here '.' matches one instance of any character and the '+' operator operates on '.' zero-or-more number of times. Hence ".+" is equivalent to the '*' wild card character. This is the POSIX regular expression syntax).

All central square antennas with upper sideband and either polarization channel can be expressed as:

C.+-USB-.+

or simply

C.+-USB

Finally, all central square antennas without any selection on the side band and polarization channel can be expressed as:

C.+-.+-.+

or simply

C.+

All above examples, but with only arm antennas can be expressed by replacing ``C.+'' in the above examples by ``[EWS].+".


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Sanjay Bhatnagar 2005-07-07