=====  TOG - Agenda, May 5, 2020 =====

Meeting start 9:30 (7:30 UT).

  - **Opening Remarks (Bach)**
  - **Approval & last minute additions to Agenda (all)**
  - **Acceptance of minutes from last meeting (all;[[https://radiowiki.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=na:sustainability:tog_2019_minutes.pdf|Minutes from Jodrell 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. (JIVE support scientistc)
      * NME results (JIVE support scientist)
      * Feedback from last sessions. (JIVE support scientist)
      * Amplitude calibration. (JIVE support scientist)
  - **Amplitude Calibration **   
      * Review of continuous cal at the stations (Bach)
  - **VLBI backends **
      * DBBC2 and Fila10G news (Bach)
      * DBBC2 firmware: V107 (Bach & all)
      * Other VLBI backends: MDBE, OCTAD news
  - **Recorders: Mark 5, Mark6, Flexbuf **
      * Recorder news/problems (all)
      * Flexbuff status and 2 Gbps (all)
      * Disk inventory and purchase status (Bach, all)
      * Future media requirements, Flexbuff upgrades (Bach) 
  - **Stations**
      * Any news? (All)
      * Availability for EVN Session II? (All) 
      * New stations: ROT-54 (Sargsyan), RT-32 Zolochev (Ulyanov). 
  - **eVLBI**
      * Current status, new stations, 2 Gbps, ... (Verkouter)
  - **JIVE ** 
     * Technical Operations and R&D at JIVE, (Verkouter)
  - ** Technical Developments **
     * Path to 4 Gbps recording rates. (Bach)
     * Available IF bandwidth at all bands, receiver developments (Bach)
     * Report on higher incremental recording rates up to 32 Gbps (Bach).
     * DBBC3. Current status. Backwards compatibility and available firmware (Tuccari)
     * BRAND receiver (Alef)
     * Auxiliary scripts & central repository (Bach)
   - **Field System, status and new features **
      * Status and new developments (Ed)
      * Next Generation Field System (all)
  - **Date and place of the next TOG meeting **
     * Bonn in November, after session 3?
  - **AOB **

End about 12:30 CEST (10:30 UT)

Session with NRAO, start at 15 CEST (13 UT) for about an hour

  - ** VLBA, GMVA and Globals **
     * VLBA status and high frequency updates
     * EVN status
     * GMVA status

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