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TOG - Agenda, June 26, 2019

Transport from the hotel to the meeting place 8:30 (15 min), meeting start 9:00.

  1. Local Arrangements/Opening Remarks (Bach, Alastair)
  2. Approval & last minute additions to Agenda (all)
  3. Acceptance of minutes from last meeting (all;Minutes from Granada 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. (Benito)
    • NME results (Benito)
    • Feedback from last sessions. (Benito)
    • Amplitude calibration. (Benito)
  7. Amplitude Calibration
    • Review of continuous cal at the stations (Bach)
  8. VLBI backends
    • DBBC2 news (Bach)
    • DBBC2 firmware: V107 (Bach & all)
    • Other VLBI backends: MDBE, OCTAD news
  9. Recorders: Mark 5, Mark6, Flexbuf
    • Recorder news/problems (all)
    • Flexbuff status and 2 Gbps (all)
    • Disk inventory and purchase status (Bach, all)
    • Future media requirements, Flexbuff upgrades (Bach)
  10. Stations
    • Any news? (All)
  11. eVLBI
    • Current status, new stations, 2 Gbps, …
    • Correlator capabilities.
  12. JIVE
    • Technical Operations and R&D at JIVE, (Szomoru)
  13. Technical Developments
    • Report on higher incremental recording rates up to 32 Gbps (Szomoru).
    • 32 Gbps the correlators view (Kettenis)
    • VOEvent demo (Kettenis)
    • DBBC3. Current status. Backwards compatibility and available firmware (?)
    • 2 Gbps at L-band (Bach)
    • Available IF bandwidth at all bands, receiver developments (Bach)
    • Auxiliary scripts & central repository? (Bach)
  14. Field System, status and new features
    • Status report, new developments (D. Horsely?)
  15. VLBA
    • VLBA status report (?)
    • Globals and recording compatibility. Recorded Mark6 operations.
  16. Long term future
    • DBBC3 tests & future implementation at the FS
    • Review of potential developments in the next 2-3 years
  17. Jumping JIVE
    • WP5. New stations.
  18. Date and place of the next TOG meeting
    • To be decided
  19. AOB

Transport back to the hotel 18:00 followed by the meeting dinner at the hotel.

na/sustainability/tog/2019_06/tog-agenda-2019-06.1559657507.txt.gz · Last modified: 2019/06/04 16:11 by ubach