===== 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 **