=====  TOG - Agenda, September 2016 =====

  - **Local Arrangements/Opening Remarks (Bondarenko, Vicente)**
  - **Approval & last minute additions to Agenda (all)**
  - **Acceptance of minutes from last meeting (all) ** [[http://www.oan.es/evn/minutes/tog_2016_1_minutes_v2.pdf|Madrid February 9, 2016]]
  - **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]])**
  - **Reliability/Performance of the EVN ** 
      * Reliability/Performance of the EVN (Blanchard)
      * NME results (Blanchard)
      * Feedback from last sessions 
  - **Amplitude Calibration **   
      * Quality of calibration (Blanchard)
      * Any issue with ANTAB-files to comment (Blanchard)
      * Diode cal trigger and recording start times (Campbell)
      * Continuous cal: availability at stations, issues processing antab during last sessions? (all)
  - **VLBI backends **
      * Summary from the DBBC master? (Alef)
      * DBBC. Status at the telescopes: number of COREs, Fila10G (All)
   - **Recorders: Mark 5,6, Flexbuf **
      * Adoption of VDIF for Mark5C, Flexbuff and Mark6. Status and future plans.
      * jive5ab & m5copy news? (Verkouter)
      * Status: Mark 5A/B/B+/C software, firmware, SDK9 (all)
      * Disk inventory and purchase status (Vicente, all)
      * Flexbuff & Mark6 issues (all)
      * Future flexbuff purchases at the EVN (all)
      * OoS diskpack inventory (Requested by Kvazar)
   - **Stations**
      * Irbene status
      * eMerlin in the EVN.
   - **EVLBI**
      * Current correlator capabilities and future ones.
      * KVAZAR network integration
      * 2 Gbps and mixed mode.
      * Proxy status at the stations
  - ** Technical Developments **
     * 4 Gbps. Technical requirements and current status.
     * Triggered observations. What is the current status?
     * Flexbuff & Mark6. Utilities: vbs_ls and vbs_fs (Verkouter)
     * m5copy graphical tool for transfers (Leeuwinga)
     * VGOS lessons: 4 gbps PFB mode (Vicente)
     * DBBC3. Current status and developments (Alef)
  - **JIVE ** 
     * Technical Operations and R&D at JIVE, (Szomoru)
   - **NRAO ** 
      * NRAO status report (Vicente on behalf of Jon Romney?)
  - **Haystack **
     * Haystack status report ()
  - **Field System, status and new features **
      * Status report, new developments ()
  - **Mid term future**
     * Technological developments for 2016-2018. How should we prepare: 1 GHz IFs? Optical fibers from Rxs?
     * Developments with geodetic community?
  - **Radionet4 **
     * Impact on the TOG.
  - **Single point of failures (human resources at stations) **
  - **Date and place of the next TOG meeting **
  - **AOB **