Meeting start 9:30 CEST (8:30 UT),

1. Opening Remarks (Bach)
2. Approval & last minute additions to Agenda (all)
3. Acceptance of minutes from last meeting (all;Minutes from April 2021 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. Recent difficulties/problems/failures
   • Anything to report about backends, recorders, receivers? (all)
8. Recent solutions
   • Using the FS holog program to measure beam maps (Bach)
9. Recorders: Mark 5, Mark6, Flexbuf
   • Disk inventory and purchase status, 500 TB per stations + 500 TB at JIVE (Bach, all)
10. Stations
    • Any news from stations? (All)
    • Status of VLBI at FAST (Chen)
    • The RFI monitoring program at Yebes (Bautista)
11. JIVE: eVLBI and operations
    • The centralized real-time EVN monitoring system (Keimpema)
    • Technical Operations and R&D at JIVE (Verkouter)
12. Technical Developments
    • The new wide band CX-receiver at Yebes (Garcia-Miro)
    • Update on the BRAND receiver (Rottmann)

Lunch break about 12-14 UT.

Global Session with US (Arecibo, NRAO,…), start at 15:00 CEST (14:00 UT)

1. Field System, status and new features
   • Status and new developments (Himwich?)
2. VLBA, Globals, and GMVA
   • Global VLBI Alliance (Colomer)
   • Status on the EVN Technical roadmap (Bach)
   • VLBA status
   • GMVA status
   • Global operation (Campbell)
3. Date and place of the next TOG meeting
   • ?
4. AOB

GMVA Tech Agenda

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