=====  TOG - Agenda (draft 19.10.2020), Nov. 24, 2020 =====

Meeting start 9:30 CET (8:30 UT), with a 20 min break at ~11 CET (10 UT). Items in //italic// not confirmed yet.

  - **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:evn_tog_minutes_05_may_2020-v2.pdf|Minutes from May 2020 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)
      * Other VLBI backends: MDBE, OCTAD news
  - **Recorders: Mark 5, Mark6, Flexbuf **
      * News/problems (all)
      * Disk inventory and purchase status (Bach, all)
  - **Stations**
      * Any news? (All)
      * Radio Astronomy on the Azores (Barbosa)
  - **eVLBI**
      * Current status, new stations, 2 Gbps, ... (Verkouter)
      * Regarding 4 Gbps eVLBI (Kettenis)
  - **JIVE ** 
     * Technical Operations and R&D at JIVE, (Verkouter)
  - ** Technical Developments **
     * How to achive 4 Gbps recording rates. (Bach)
     * Available IF bandwidth at all bands, receiver developments (Bach)
     * DBBC3. Current status. Backwards compatibility and available firmware (Tuccari)
     * Auxiliary scripts & central repository (Bach)
     * changes to vlbeer? (Bach)
     * **EVN Vision: VLBI20-30, EVN Technical roadmap** (Bach)
  - **Field System, status and new features **
      * Status and new developments (Ed)
      * FS working group
  - **Date and place of the next TOG meeting **
     * April 2021?
  - **AOB **

End about 12:50 CET (11:50 UT)

Session with US (Arecibo, NRAO,...), start at 14:30 CET (13:30 UT)

  - **Stations**
      * //Any news from Arecibo?//
  - ** VLBA and Globals **
     * //VLBA status//
     * //EVN status//

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