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Meeting start 10 CEST (8 UT),

1. Opening Remarks (Bach)
2. Approval & last minute additions to Agenda (all)
3. Acceptance of minutes from last meeting (all;Minutes from Nov. 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. Global VLBI Alliance
   • Introduction of the Global VLBI Alliance (Colomer)
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)
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)
11. eVLBI
    • Current status, new stations, 4 Gbps, … (Verkouter)
12. JIVE
    • Technical Operations and R&D at JIVE (Verkouter)
13. Technical Developments
    • DBBC3: Current status, Backwards compatibility, and available firmware
    • DBBC3 control software (Rottmann)
    • Mattermost Server for TOG discussions
14. EVN Technical roadmap (Bach)
    • C/X band receivers
    • BRAND receiver
    • Upgrade eVLBI connection speeds to 10 Gbps.
    • A common RFI monitoring scheme.
    • Purchase DBBC3 backends.
    • KASI Triple band receivers.

Lunch break about 11-12:30 UT.

Session with US (Arecibo, NRAO,…), start at 14:30 CEST (12:30 UT)

1. Field System, status and new features
   • Status and new developments (Ed)
   • FS working group
2. Stations
   • Situation at Arecibo
3. VLBA and Globals
   • EVN status (Bach)
   • VLBA status
   • 4 Gbps globals? (Bach)
4. Date and place of the next TOG meeting
   • ?
5. AOB

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