EVN Technical and Operations Group Meeting

• Please read the Travel Information to find your way to and inside Bonn.

• The meeting will be held at Effelsberg. We will provide a bus for transportation from the hotels to the telescope. The bus will leave at 8:00 in the morning from the Hotel Mozart (close to the Hotel Schwan) and will pick up other participants at the institute (close to the Hotel Altes Treppchen).

• A social dinner sponsored by RadioNet-FP7 will be at 8 pm on 4. December 2009 in Bonn Bierhaus Machhold .
  

Please let us know if you have any special wishes concerning the dinner.

The DBBC workshop will take place on 3. and 5. of December and it is divided in two phases:

Phase 1 : Practical presentation of the DBBC hardware and software (duration 1 hr). Gino will explain the hardware aspect, whereas Dave will concentrate on the Fields system.
Phase 2: Talk on DBBC from G. Tuccari (duration 1 hr). One will receive a print version of the talk the latest on 4. December.

Please note that the phase 1 needs small amount of Participants – max 6. Therefore we will need you to choose the most convenient group for you. The rule is – who replies to me first get first.

The schedule of the DBBC Workshop:

Agenda for the TOG on 4. December 2009

EVN Amplitude Calibration, Jun Yang, JIVE
EVN Performance and Reliability, Jun Yang, JIVE
EVN Disk-Shipping Logistics, Bob Campbell, JIVE
Mark5 & RDBE Status, Chet Ruszczyk +, MIT Haystack Observatory
Concepts for remote control of VLBI-telescopes, Alexander Neidhardt, FESG
e-VLBI/EXPReS/NEXPReS/UniBoard, Arpad Szomoru, JIVE
evn_disk_status.pdf
fs.pdf
evn-us_telecon.pdf

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EVN Stations Reports

However one can still try to find a rooms in the following hotels. Please remember that the room prices can be changed now.

The cost for a single room includes breakfast. The participants will be accommodated at the Hotels:

• Hotel Schwan Reservation: 10 Single Rooms à € 66,- *Hotel Schwan web-page* - free WLAN access

• Hotel Mozart Reservation: 20 Single Rooms à € 72,- *Hotel Mozart web-page* - free WLAN access

• Hotel Altes Treppchen reservation: 6 Single Rooms à € 71,- *Hotel Altes Treppchen web-page* - not free WLAN access
  

To reserve a room please contact the hotel.

Most of the internet pages are in German. Please don't hesitate to contact Beate Naunheim for help.

Please fill out the **Registration Form** or contact Izabela Rottmann for the logistics arrangements. In particular, you are kindly asked to provide the following details:

• name
  
• institute
  
• e-mail address
  
• arrival date
  
• departure date
  
• hotel room reservation
  
• remarks (vegetarian, etc. )
  

Limited travel support for this meeting can be given via RadioNet-FP7 on special request to Walter Alef.
Please read Travel_Claim_Policy for the explanation of the procedure in RadioNet-FP7.

For further help please contact Izabela Rottmann (MPIfR, Bonn)