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

1. Local Arrangements/Opening Remarks (Bach)
2. Welcome
3. Approval & last minute additions to Agenda (all)
4. Acceptance of minutes from last meeting (all;Minutes from February 2022 meeting)
5. Review of Action Items from last meeting (all; see Action Items from last meeting )
6. Review of Permanent Action Items (all; see Permanent Action Items)
7. 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)
8. Recent difficulties/problems/failures
   • Anything to report about backends, recorders, receivers? (all)
   • Late arrival for schedules (Bach, all).
   • Security issues with the vlbeer server (Bach/Stagni).
9. 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 naming conventions for multiple files from multiple threads. (Eldering/Bach, all)
   • jive5ab updates (Verkouter)
10. Stations
    • Any news from stations? (All)
    • Discussion on eVLBI: 2 days, length of test time, mix with disk recording, towards 4 Gbps,…
11. Improving EVN operations: developments at JIVE
    • The centralized real-time EVN monitoring system (Keimpema)
    • Status of beam-map corrections for wide field imaging (Keimpema)
    • A new station-feedback tool (Small)
    • New techniques to schedule observations. (Eldering)
    • Technical Operations and R&D at JIVE (Verkouter)

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 Logistics

Coffee break at about 15:45 CET

1. Technical Developments
   • DBBC2/DBBC3 Updates (Tuccari)
   • Update on the BRAND receiver (Tuccari)
   • Triple-Band receivers: Status of development and plans for operation. (Bach, Rottmann, all)
   • Summary of the Fast Frequency Phase Transfer Meeting in Bonn (Lobanov)
2. Field System, status and new features
   • Status and new developments (Himwich)
3. VLBA, Globals, and GMVA
   • Status on the EVN Technical roadmap (last slides) (Bach)
   • VLBA status (Brisken)
   • Global operation
4. Date and place of the next TOG meeting
   • ?
5. AOB

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