====== **EVN Technical Operation Group (TOG)** ======

The Technical and Operations Group (TOG) is responsible for advising the EVN Consortium Board of Directors on all aspects of technical and operational issues relevant to the reliability and performance of the network. The TOG is also the body which implements technical and operational upgrades across the network.
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===== TOG Meetings: =====
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^**Milestones**^**Plan months**^Date^Place^Meeting Home Page (with links to reports and presentations)^**Deliverables**^
|1st TOG |03 |17 April 2009 | Torun, Poland |[[http://www.astro.uni.torun.pl/vlbi/tog2009/index.php|1st TOG Meeting home page]]| {{:na:engineering:1st_tog_report_3.pdf|1st_TOG_Report.pdf}}|
|2nd TOG | 11 | 4 December 2009 | Bonn, Germany|[[na:engineering:ew:2ndTOG|2nd TOG Meeting home page]]| {{:na:engineering:2nd_tog_report.pdf|2nd_TOG_Report.pdf}}|
|3rd TOG | 18 | 21-22 June 2010  | Metsähovi, Finland | [[na:engineering:ew:3rdTOG| 3rd TOG Meeting home page]] |  {{:na:engineering:3rd_tog_report.pdf|3rd_TOG_Report.pdf}}  |
|4th TOG | 24 | 28 January 2011   | JIVE, Dwingeloo, Netherlands | [[na:engineering:ew:4thTOG| 4th TOG Meeting home page]] | {{:na:engineering:4th_tog_report.pdf|4th_TOG_Report.pdf}}   |
|5th TOG | 32 | 29-30 August 2011|  Arecibo, Puerto Rico | [[na:engineering:ew:5thtog | 5th TOG Meeting home page]]| {{:na:engineering:5th_tog_report.pdf|5th_TOG_report.pdf}}   |
Starting month (01) January 2009

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===== TOG Organizational Issues: =====
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Meetings of the EVN TOG are sponsored by Radio Net-FP7. 
To find the procedures for obtaining travel funds for RadioNet-FP7 please read the [[http://www.radionet-eu.org/travel|**Travel web-page**]].


===== TOG Contact Persons:=====
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The chairman of the TOG is [[alef@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de|Walter Alef]] (MPIfR, Bonn).
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The vice-chair of the TOG is [[Michael.Lindqvist@chalmers.se|Michael Lindqvist]] (OSO, Sweden).
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You can find the webpage of the EVN-TOG under [[http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/div/vlbicor/tog_chair/tog.html|**TOG home page**]] with links to the minutes and various reports. 
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//Contact: [[irottmann@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de|Izabela Rottmann]]//