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Meeting start 10 CEST (8 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 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. 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?
8. Recorders: Mark 5, Mark6, Flexbuf
   • Disk inventory and purchase status, 500 TB per stations + 500 TB at JIVE (Bach, all)
9. Stations
   • Any news from stations? (All)
10. eVLBI
    • Current status, new stations, 4 Gbps, …
11. JIVE
    • Technical Operations and R&D at JIVE,
12. Technical Developments
    • How to achieve 4 Gbps recording rates. (Bach)
    • Available IF bandwidth at all bands, receiver developments (Bach)
    • DBBC3. Current status. Backwards compatibility and available firmware
    • Auxiliary scripts & central repository (Bach)
    • Mattermost Server for TOG discussions
13. EVN Technical roadmap
    • C/X band receivers (Bach)
    • Upgrade eVLBI connection speeds to 10 Gbps.
    • A common RFI monitoring scheme.
    • Purchase DBBC3 backends.
    • KASI Triple band receivers.

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

1. Stations
   • Any news from Arecibo?
2. VLBA and Globals
   • VLBA status
   • EVN status
3. Technical Developments
   • How to achieve global 4 Gbps recording rates. (Bach)
4. Field System, status and new features
   • Status and new developments (Ed)
   • FS working group
5. Date and place of the next TOG meeting
   • ?
6. AOB

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