TOG - Agenda, October 6, 2014
Local Arrangements/Opening Remarks (Migoni, Lindqvist)
Approval & last minute additions to Agenda (all)
Acceptance of minutes from last meeting (all)
Wettzell, January 23-24, 2014
Review of Action Items from last meeting (all; see
Action Items from last meeting
)
Review of Permanent Action Items (all; see
Permanent Action Items
)
RadioNet3
Next TWS (Lindqvist)
Synergy RadiotelDB
(Paragi)
Reliability/Performance of the EVN
Reliability/Performance of the EVN (Agudo),
agudo_reliability_v1.0.pdf
Pre-session checks, e.g., sampler stats, phase-cal, RFI … (Agudo)
NME results (Agudo)
Feedback from last sessions (Agudo)
Amplitude Calibration
Quality of calibration (Agudo),
agudo_amplitude_v1.0.pdf
Timely delivery of ANTAB-files? (Agudo)
Digital BBC-systems
DBBC development and production status, (Alef),
dbbc2_deployment_status_oct_2014_rev2.pdf
DBBC spare parts (Lindqvist)
DBBC experience at stations (all)
JIVE
Technical Operations and R&D at JIVE, (Szomoru),
arpad_tog14_2.pdf
New observing categories
EVN+LBA (Szomoru)
Out-of-Session observing (Gunn),
agunn.pdf
Joint frequency blocks (Gunn, Lindqvist)
Triggered/interrupted e-VLBI observations (Kettenis),
tog-kettenis.pdf
Technical Development
Diskshipping-less operation (Yang, Verkouter),
tog-sardinia-okt2014-eshipping.pdf
Towards 2-4 Gbps operation (Szomoru)
Development of a Low-noise wide-band integrated amplifier for VLBI antennas, RadioNet3/DIVA Task 1 (Alef)
DBBC3, RadioNet3/DIVA Task 2 (Alef),
dbbc3_evn_symposium_2014.pdf
Field System, status and new features
Status report, new developments (Himwich),
fs_tog_oct_2014.pdf
Haystack
Haystack status report (Ruszczyk),
haystackstatus_oct3_14.pdf
Mark 5,6
Status: Mark 5A/B/B+/C,6, software, firmware, SDK9 (Ruszczyk),
mark5_status_oct3_14.pdf
jive5ab (Verkouter),
tog-sardinia-okt2014-jive5ab.pdf
Mark5/FS status at EVN stations,
(Szomoru)
Mark 5 problems encountered during last session, (all)
Disk inventory and purchase status – 7000 € per station/year (Lindqvist, all)
Disk throughput at JIVE, balancing with NRAO, Astro/Geo pool (Campbell)
Mark 5 logistics (repairs, shipping rules, VLBA shipping requirements, boxes, labels, etc.) (all)
SCHED Developments
Digital BBC-systems, Mark 5C, Mark 6, 2-4 Gbps operation etc. (Campbell)
SCHED after C. Walker retires (all)
NRAO
NRAO status report (Romney),
romney141006_tog.pdf
Activities at EVN stations
The new radome for the OSO 20 m telescope (Hammargren)
Activities at potential new EVN stations
Upcoming meetings (Lindqvist)
EVN Symposium and Users' Meeting, Cagliari, Italy, 7-10 October 2014
3rd International VLBI Technology Workshop, JIVE, The Netherlands, 10-13 November, 2014
Eighth IVS Technical Operations Workshop, Haystack Observatory, Westford, USA, 4-7 May, 2015
TWS, 2015
Date and place of the next TOG meeting
Robledo, Spain, June 26 2015 (preliminary date)
AOB