=====  TOG - Agenda, Apr. 29, 2021 =====

Meeting start 10 CEST (8 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:evn_tog_minutes_24_nov_2020_-_v2.pdf|Minutes from Nov. 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]])**
  - **Global VLBI Alliance**
      * Introduction of the Global VLBI Alliance (Colomer)
  - **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)
  - **Recent difficulties/problems/failures **   
      * Anything to report about backends, recorders, receivers? (all)
  - **Recorders: Mark 5, Mark6, Flexbuf **
      * Disk inventory and purchase status, 500 TB per stations + 500 TB at JIVE (Bach, all)
  - **Stations**
      * Any news from stations? (All)
  - **eVLBI**
      * Current status, new stations, 4 Gbps, ... (Verkouter)
  - **JIVE ** 
     * Technical Operations and R&D at JIVE (Verkouter)
  - ** Technical Developments **
     * DBBC3: Current status, Backwards compatibility, and available firmware
     * DBBC3 control software (Rottmann)
     * Mattermost Server for TOG discussions
  - **EVN Technical roadmap**  (Bach) 
     * C/X band receivers
     * BRAND receiver
     * Upgrade eVLBI connection speeds to 10 Gbps.
     * A common RFI monitoring scheme.
     * Purchase DBBC3 backends.
     * KASI Triple band receivers.

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Lunch break about 11-12:30 UT.
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Session with US (Arecibo, NRAO,...), start at 14:30 CEST (12:30 UT)

  - **Field System, status and new features **
      * Status and new developments (Ed)
      * FS working group
  - **Stations**
      * //Situation at Arecibo//
  - ** VLBA and Globals **
     * EVN status (Bach)
     * VLBA status
     * 4 Gbps globals? (Bach)
  - **Date and place of the next TOG meeting **
     * ?
  - **AOB **

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