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Results from the third campaign of a ground-based multiband observation of
the millimeter emission of the sky from Tenerife (Canary Islands) are prese
nted. The instrument consists of a 0.45 m diameter off-axis telescope equip
ped with a four-band multimode He-3 cooled photometer working at 1.1, 1.3,
2.1, and 3.1 mm wavelengths. The beam is well approximated by a Gaussian wi
th 1.degrees 35 FWHM at all wavelengths. The wide wavelength coverage of ou
r instrument allows us to characterize and reduce both the atmospheric and
Galactic contamination in our data. The cosmic microwave background radiati
on data is analyzed in six multipole bands whose centers span the range l =
39 to l = 134 at the two longest wavelengths (2.1 and 3.1 mm). A likelihoo
d analysis indicates that we have detected fluctuations in all bands at the
two wavelengths. We have evidence of a rise in the angular power spectrum
from low to high. Our measured spectrum is consistent with current popular
theories of large- scale structure formation, COBE, and other recent balloo
n-borne experiments with similar wavelength coverage.