====== VLBI Hands-on Workshop ======

**The participants have been divived into groups. The preliminary program is given below. {{:na:eratec:tog:tog-meeting-02:eratec_groups.pdf|A detailed program for each participants is given in this document.}}  
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^Thursday Morning 9-12^^^^
|DBBC Hardware/Maintenance    |group A     |White-water-raft ride of VLBI data|group C|
|DBBC operation               |group B     |Practical Correlation             |group D|
^Thursday afternoon 14-17^^^^
|DBBC Hardware/Maintenance    |group B     |White-water-raft ride of VLBI data|group D|
|DBBC operation               |group A     |Practical Correlation             |group C|


^Friday Morning 9-12^^^^
|DBBC Hardware/Maintenance    |group C     |White-water-raft ride of VLBI data |group A|
|DBBC operation               |group D     |Practical Correlation              |group B|
^Friday afternoon 14-17^^^^
|DBBC Hardware/Maintenance    |group D     |White-water-raft ride of VLBI data |group B|
|DBBC operation               |group C     |Practical Correlation              |group A|
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**The prospective teachers and lecture rooms are as follows**

^Title^Teachers^Room^
|DBBC Hardware/Maintenance|Gino Tuccari/Michael Wunderlich|Lab             |
|DBBC operation|Uwe Bach/Jonathan Quick        |Room behind the correlator      |
|White-water-raft ride of VLBI data|Bob Campbell/Jun Yang          | Lecture Hall 2 |
|DiFX, software correlator|Alessandra Bertarini           |Room 0.44  |
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====== A short description of different lecturues is given below. ======


**DBBC Hardware/Maintenance**\\
The aim of the workshop is to describe the structure, hardware, software and
maintenance of the DBBC.
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**DBBC operation**\\
The aim of the workshop is to go thorough the
scheduling, experiment setup using the FS, continuous calibration and other operational aspects of the DBBC in the field. 
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**White-water-raft ride of VLBI data**\\
This will be a presentation
that let you experience the white-water-raft ride
of data (in the most general sense) from before observing, through
correlation, through to the PI getting the data. 
The main goal is to illustrate what effects various actions/omissions
at the stations may have on the quality of the final data and/or the
difficulty of processing it. 
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**Practical Correlation **\\
Hands-on activities with the DiFX software correlator: brief introduction on what a correlator is, preparation of files for correlation, correlation and search for fringes with interpretation of the fourfit output. Various exercises to detect common problems at stations that would need to be resolved. 
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