TOG - Agenda, October 6, 2014

  1. Local Arrangements/Opening Remarks (Migoni, Lindqvist)
  2. Approval & last minute additions to Agenda (all)
  3. Acceptance of minutes from last meeting (all) Wettzell, January 23-24, 2014
  4. Review of Action Items from last meeting (all; see Action Items from last meeting )
  5. Review of Permanent Action Items (all; see Permanent Action Items)
  6. RadioNet3
  7. 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)
  8. Amplitude Calibration
  9. Digital BBC-systems
  10. JIVE
  11. 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
  12. Technical Development
  13. Field System, status and new features
  14. Haystack
  15. 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
    • 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)
  16. SCHED Developments
    • Digital BBC-systems, Mark 5C, Mark 6, 2-4 Gbps operation etc. (Campbell)
    • SCHED after C. Walker retires (all)
  17. NRAO
  18. Activities at EVN stations
    • The new radome for the OSO 20 m telescope (Hammargren)
  19. Activities at potential new EVN stations
  20. 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
  21. Date and place of the next TOG meeting
    • Robledo, Spain, June 26 2015 (preliminary date)
  22. AOB