EVN Technical Operations Group Meeting
Wettzell / Hoellenstein (Germany)
09:00 Thursday 1^st April 2004

AGENDA

Version 1.2, 24.3.2004
Walter Alef

Local Arrangements/Opening Remarks (Schlüter & Alef)

1. Approval & last minute additions to Agenda [All]
   
   
2. Review of Action Items from last meeting (Gunn, all)
   
   
3. Reliability/Performance of the EVN (Paragi)
   
   • "near-realtime" fringe checks
   • recording quality
   • NME results
   • Available bandwidth for high bitrates, patching, LOs (Paragi, all)
     
   • Checking station performance with "chchk" (all)
   • phase-cal (all)
     
   • BBC checks and BBC quality (all)
   • Sampler statistics (all)
   • Frequency agility (all)
     
   
   
4. Amplitude Calibration (Reynolds)
   
   • Present status of continuous cal
   • Timely delivery of results?
   • Quality of measurements
   • Linearity of BBCs determined? (all)
   • GNPLT problems? (all)
   • ANTAB generation at stations (Reynolds, all)
   • Continuous cal with VLBA terminals (Graham)
   • Successor for John Conway: Manual, Software (volunteers!?)
     
   
   
5. Automatic flagging (Reynolds)
   
   • Problems? (all)
     
   
   
6. MK5
   
   • Status: SATA, MK5B, hardware bank-switch (Smythe)
   • Report from MK5-only stations (Kraus...)
   • 1024 Mbit/s status, tests, wide band NMEs (all, Paragi)
   • Disk purchase status, policy (all)
   • Tape -> disk switchover (all)
   • (MK5) logistics (shipping, boxes, etc.) (all)
     
   • NRAO MK5 status (Romney)
   • Summary of MK5 pre-meeting + discussion (Romney)
   • MK5 wishlist (all)
     
     
7. Field System (Himwich)
   
   • MK5 support
   • Automatic near-realtime fringe checks
   • e-VLBI support
   • VEX
   • FS/PC/Formatter time
     
   
   
8. Sched Developments (Reynolds)
   
   • MK5 support
     
   • 1 Gbit/s
   • VEX
     
   • catalogs
     
   
   
9. UHF (Tuccari)
   
   • Usable band, RFI (all)
   
   
10. MkIV Decoder (Smythe)
    
    
11. IF switchbox (Graham)
    
    
12. Spare parts (Burgess, all)
    
    
13. Digital BBCs (Tuccari)
    
    
14. e-VLBI status (Parsley, Smythe, NN (Wettzell))
    
    
15. Station + correlator reports (as time permits)
           Please provide written reports by March 21!
    
    
16. AOB
    
    
17. Time and place of the next meeting (volunteers please!)