=====  TOG - Agenda, Jan. 24, 2023  =====

Meeting start 9:30 CET (8:30 UTC),

  - **Local Arrangements/Opening Remarks (Bach)**
  - **Welcome**
  - **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_8_feb_2022_v1.8.pdf|Minutes from February 2022 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 **
      * {{ :na:sustainability:tog:2023_01:evn_report_tog_2023_oh.pdf |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)
      * Late arrival for schedules (Bach, all).
      * {{ :na:sustainability:tog:2023_01:matteostagnitog2023.pdf |Security issues with the vlbeer server}} (Bach/Stagni).
  - **Recorders: Mark 5, Mark6, Flexbuf **
      * Disk inventory and purchase status, 500 TB per stations + 500 TB at JIVE (Bach, all)
      * Discussion about disk space management: "automatically" collect available disk space from flexbuff. (Jang)  
      * Discussion on {{ :na:sustainability:tog:2023_01:multi-stream.pdf |naming conventions for multiple files from multiple threads.}} (Eldering/Bach, all)  
      * {{ :na:sustainability:tog:2023_01:verkouter-jive5ab-etal-tog-bonn-jan2023.pdf |jive5ab updates}} (Verkouter)
  - **Stations**
      * Any news from stations? (All)
      * Discussion on eVLBI: 2 days, length of test time, mix with disk recording, towards 4 Gbps,...
  - **Improving EVN operations: developments at JIVE**
      * {{ :na:sustainability:tog:2023_01:evn-monitor.pdf |The centralized real-time EVN monitoring system}} (Keimpema)
      * {{ :na:sustainability:tog:2023_01:primary-beam.pdf |Status of beam-map corrections for wide field imaging}} (Keimpema)
      * {{ :na:sustainability:tog:2023_01:a_new_station_feedback_tool.pdf |A new station-feedback tool}} (Small)
      * {{ :na:sustainability:tog:2023_01:tom.pdf |New techniques to schedule observations.}} (Eldering)
      * {{ :na:sustainability:tog:2023_01:verkouter-techopsrd-tog-bonn-jan2023.pdf |Technical Operations and R&D at JIVE}} (Verkouter)

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Coffee break at about 11 CET

Lunch break about 13:00-14:30 CET (if this is going to happen really at that point of the agenda depends on our progress). See also [[https://events.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/indico/event/297/page/0|Logistics]]


Coffee break at about 15:45 CET
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  - ** Technical Developments **
     * {{ :na:sustainability:tog:2023_01:dbbc_deployment_and_firmware_development_january_2023.pdf |DBBC2/DBBC3 Updates}} (Tuccari)
     * {{ :na:sustainability:tog:2023_01:brand_evn_status_january_2023.pdf |Update on the BRAND receiver}} (Tuccari)
     * Triple-Band receivers: Status of development and plans for operation. (Bach, Rottmann, all)
     * {{ :na:sustainability:tog:2023_01:lobanov_evn_tog_230124.pdf |Summary of the Fast Frequency Phase Transfer Meeting in Bonn}} (Lobanov)
  - **Field System, status and new features **
      * {{ :na:sustainability:tog:2023_01:weh_tog_jan_2023.pdf |Status and new developments}} (Himwich)
  - ** VLBA, Globals, and GMVA **
     * {{ :na:sustainability:tog:2023_01:tog_2023-01.pdf |Status on the EVN Technical roadmap (last slides)}} (Bach)
     * VLBA status (Brisken)
     * Global operation
  - **Date and place of the next TOG meeting **
     * ?
  - **AOB **


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