===== TOG - Agenda, February 2016 (draft) ===== - **Local Arrangements/Opening Remarks (Colomer, Vicente)** - **Approval & last minute additions to Agenda (all)** - **Acceptance of minutes from last meeting (all) ** [[http://www.oan.es/evn/minutes/tog_2015_1_minutes.pdf|Robledo de Chavela, June 24, 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]])** - **Radionet4 NA proposal (WP4.1 TOG & GTG) (Vicente)** - **Reliability/Performance of the EVN ** * Reliability/Performance of the EVN (?) * NME results (?) * Feedback from last sessions - **Amplitude Calibration ** * Quality of calibration (?) * Timely delivery of ANTAB-files (?) * Continuous cal: availability at stations, issues processing antab during last sessions? (all) - **VLBI backends ** * Summary from the DBBC master (Alef for Tuccari) * DBBC. Status at the telescopes: number of COREs, Fila10G (All) * Russian backends. Developments (Marshalov) - **Recorders: Mark 5,6, Flexbuf ** * jive5ab & m5copy (Verkouter) * Status: Mark 5A/B/B+/C software, firmware, SDK9 (Lonsdale for Ruszczyk) * Flexbuff * Mark6 as Flexbuff. (Bach/Alef) * Disk inventory and purchase status (Vicente, all) * Diskspace contribution from Flexbuff and Mark6 units (All) - ** Technical Developments ** * Triggered observations (Kettenis) * SFXC (Kettenis) * 2 Gbps eVLBI (Vicente, Verkouter, Kettenis) * PFB mode (Vicente) * Towards 2-4 Gbps operation (Vicente) - ** DIVA ** (Alef) * DBBC3 (Alef) - ** BRAND ** (Alef) - **JIVE ** * Technical Operations and R&D at JIVE, (Szomoru) - **Haystack ** * Haystack status report (Lonsdale) - **NRAO ** * NRAO status report (Brisken) - **Field System, status and new features ** * Status report, new developments (Himwich) - **Last minute additions ** * Experiments transferring the clock through Internet (B. Campbell) * NOEMA overview (M. Bremer) - **Mid term future** * Technological developments for 2016-2018. EVN in the future (open discussion) - **Date and place of the next TOG meeting ** * Saint Petersburg, sept 2016 - **AOB **