===== TOG - Agenda, June 26, 2015 ===== - **Local Arrangements/Opening Remarks (GarcĂ­a-Miro, Vicente)** - **Approval & last minute additions to Agenda (all)** - **Acceptance of minutes from last meeting (all) ** [[http://www.oso.chalmers.se/evn/minutes/tog_2014_3_minutes.pdf|Cagliari, October 6, 2015]] - **Review of Action Items from last meeting (all; see [[https://deki.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/Working_Groups/EVN_TOG/Current_Action_Items| Action Items from last meeting ]])** - **Review of Permanent Action Items (all; see [[https://deki.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/Working_Groups/EVN_TOG/Permanent_Action_Items| Permanent Action Items]])** - **RadioNet3 ** * Next TWS (Lindqvist) - **Reliability/Performance of the EVN ** * Reliability/Performance of the EVN (Duev) * Pre-session checks, e.g., sampler stats, phase-cal, RFI, versions of schedules ... (Duev) * NME results (Duev) * Feedback from last sessions - **Amplitude Calibration ** * Quality of calibration (Duev) * Timely delivery of ANTAB-files (Duev) * Continuous cal: availability at stations, switch between cont and non-cont cal, antab processing (Vicente, all) - **Digital BBC-systems ** * DBBC development and production status (Alef) * DBBC OS security issues: Windows XP & Windows 7 (Hammargren) * DBBC spare parts (Vicente) * DBBC experience at stations (all) - **JIVE ** * Technical Operations and R&D at JIVE, (Szomoru) - ** New observing categories ** * EVN+LBA (Szomoru) * Out-of-Session observing (Gunn) * Joint frequency blocks (Gunn, Lindqvist) * Triggered/interrupted e-VLBI observations (Szomoru) * Can a triggered e-VLBI proposal overrun the chosen observing frequency for a given e-VLBI session? (Lindqvist) - ** Technical Development ** * Diskshipping-less operation (Eldering) * Mark6 as a Flexbuff (Alef) * Transition to Flexbuff & Mark6. Mixed operations VSI/VDIF. (all) * Towards 2-4 Gbps operation. Common frequencies (Vicente). * DBBC3, RadioNet3/DIVA Task 2 (Alef) * SFXC capabilities (Keimpema) * beam shape determination (Keimpema) - **Haystack ** * Haystack status report (Ruszczyk) - **Mark 5,6 ** * Status: Mark 5A/B/B+/C,6, software, firmware, SDK9 (Ruszczyk) * jive5ab (Verkouter) * Mark 5 problems encountered during last session, (all) * Disk inventory and purchase status (Vicente, all) * Disk throughput at JIVE, balancing with NRAO, Astro/Geo pool, Radioastron pool (Campbell) * Mark 5 logistics (repairs, shipping rules, VLBA shipping requirements, boxes, labels, etc.) (all) - **NRAO ** * NRAO status report (Romney) - **Field System, status and new features ** * Status report, new developments (Himwich) * Cable wrap and pointing sector (Himwich) - **SCHED Developments ** * Digital BBC-systems, Mark 5C, Mark 6, 2-4 Gbps operation etc. (Campbell) * SCHED (all) * Pointing sector information (Campbell) - **Activities at EVN stations ** - **Activities at potential new EVN stations** - **TOG information resources (Vicente, Alef, all)** - **Upcoming meetings (Vicente) ** * TWS, Florence, Italy, October 5-7 2015 * 4th International VLBI Technology Workshop, New Zealand, November, 2015 - **Date and place of the next TOG meeting ** - **AOB **