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

1. Opening Remarks (Bach)
2. Approval & last minute additions to Agenda (all)
3. Acceptance of minutes from last meeting (all;Minutes from May 2020 meeting)
4. Review of Action Items from last meeting (all; see Action Items from last meeting )
5. Review of Permanent Action Items (all; see Permanent Action Items)
6. 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)
7. Amplitude Calibration
   • Review of continuous cal at the stations (Bach)
8. VLBI backends
   • DBBC2 and Fila10G news (Bach)
   • Other VLBI backends: MDBE, OCTAD news
9. Recorders: Mark 5, Mark6, Flexbuf
   • News/problems (all)
   • Disk inventory and purchase status (Bach, all)
10. Stations
    • Any news? (All)
    • Radio Astronomy on the Azores (Barbosa)
11. eVLBI
    • Current status, new stations, 2 Gbps, … (Verkouter)
    • Regarding 4 Gbps eVLBI (Kettenis)
12. JIVE
    • Technical Operations and R&D at JIVE, (Verkouter)
13. 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)
14. Field System, status and new features
    • Status and new developments (Ed)
    • FS working group
15. Date and place of the next TOG meeting
    • April 2021?
16. AOB

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

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

1. Stations
   • Any news from Arecibo?
2. VLBA and Globals
   • VLBA status
   • EVN status

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