TOG - Agenda, September 2016
Local Arrangements/Opening Remarks (Bondarenko, Vicente)
Approval & last minute additions to Agenda (all)
Acceptance of minutes from last meeting (all)
Madrid February 9, 2016
Review of Action Items from last meeting (all; see
Action Items from last meeting
)
Review of Permanent Action Items (all; see
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