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TOG - Agenda, Apr. 29, 2021

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
    • C/X band receivers (Bach)
    • 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
    • VLBA status
  4. Technical Developments
    • How to achieve global 4 Gbps recording rates. (Bach)
  5. Date and place of the next TOG meeting
    • ?
  6. AOB

Back to meeting page.

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