=====  TOG - Agenda, May 23, 2017 =====

  - **Local Arrangements/Opening Remarks (Bezrukovs, Vicente)**
  - **Approval & last minute additions to Agenda (all)**
  - **Acceptance of minutes from last meeting (all) ** {{:na:eratec:tog:tog-meeting-06_2:evn_tog_minutes_19_sept_2016-v2.pdf|Minutes St. Petersburg meeting}}
  - **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/Campbell)
      * NME results (Blanchard/Campbell)
      * Feedback from last sessions (Blanchard/Campbell)
  - **Amplitude Calibration **   
      * Quality of calibration (Blanchard)
      * Continuous cal: availability at stations (Vicente)
      * antabfs script (Vicente)
  - **VLBI backends **
      * DBBC2 firmware issues: V105E and PFB modes (all).
      * Other VLBI backends: DPV, DAS R1002, 
  - **Recorders: Mark 5,6, Flexbuf **
      * VDIF available for DAS R1002, KDAS, CDAS? Would require usage of Mar5C.
      * jive5ab & m5copy news? (Verkouter)
      * Status: Mark 5A/B/B+/C software, firmware, SDK9 (all)
      * Disk inventory and purchase status (Vicente, all)
      * Flexbuff status (all)
      * Possible flexbuff upgrades: more space 
  - **Stations**
      * eMerlin in the EVN.
  - **EVLBI**
      * Current correlator capabilities and future ones.
      * KVAZAR network integration in the eVLBI. Dates.
      * 2 Gbps in the remaining stations.
      * Potential longer eVLBI sessions (Gunn?)
  - ** Technical Developments **
     * Improvement of PCAL Signal Distribution on RT-32 Radio Telescopes of «Quasar» VLBI Network
     * 4 Gbps status. Last tests (Vicente)
     * m5copy graphical tool for transfers (Eldering)
     * Auxiliary scripts. Central repository? (Vicente)
     * DBBC3. Current status, backwards compatibility and available firmware (Alef)
     * BRAND (Alef)
     * Future backends compatibility: BRAS, CDAS2, DPV, DBBC3
     * Uniboard.
     * 4 Gbps eVLBI tests
  - **JIVE ** 
     * Technical Operations and R&D at JIVE, (Szomoru)
   - **LBO (was NRAO VLBA) ** 
      * LBO status report (?)
  - **Haystack **
     * Haystack status report (?)
     * RDBEG features (Ruszczyk). 
     * R2DBE status (Ruszczyk).
  - **Field System, status and new features **
      * Status report, new developments (Himwich)
  - **Long term future**
     * Technological developments for the future. How should we prepare: 1 GHz IFs? Optical fibers from Rxs?
     * Wide bands
     * DBBC3 tests
     * DBBC3 implementation at the FS
  - **Jumping JIVE **
     * WPs
  - **Date and place of the next TOG meeting **
  - **AOB **