VLBI/eVLBI operations and technical meeting, Hobart, 15-16 Feb 2016

ACTIONS list

Investigate moving Hobart/Ceduna fully to DBBC (JamieMc)
- Aim March 2017
Encourage PIs/Co-Is to come for longer periods (Chris/Phil)
- to support other projects in the same block
Find mechanisms to encourage PI observing
- we have had some success
- Phil says to schedule further in advance
- Cormac recommends a direct, strongly worded email
- Simon suggests the “withdrawal of future observing time” stick, but we need to say it to all projects, and not have special cases
Sort Tid support issues (Phil)
- not being much of an issue, although no host country time support is guaranteed
Tid VNC setup (Chris/Shinj) [done 17/2] (it has come back again)
Tidvsi disk storage (Chris/Shinji) (done)
Check if DBBC can be plugged directly into CA06 (Chris) [done 17/2]
Check if Mopra narrow band filters can be bypassed (Chris) [done 17/2, unknown outcome]
Investigate ARC/Lief wideband proposal (Simon)
- Simon has investigated, the proposal has not happened
- have to start talking about it November
Clarify standard modes for PIs and document. Review call for proposals(Chris)
- not done yet
- unclear whether this needs to be done, with most observers using canned setups
Auscope added to lba_monitor (JamieS/Jim)
- not done yet
Add Mark5s to recmon (Chris)
- not done yet
Trial Aspera (Chris) [email sent out 16/2]
- not continuing for many reasons, including that normal data moving is “no effort”

Sched support longterm (Chris)
- vex2
Tid DASPro entries (Chris)
- not done yet
DASPRo 64 MHz flipping (Chris)
- not done yet
AK07 position (Leonid?) [Emailed 19-Feb]
- cannot happen
RtFC
- Sub second DIFX (Chris) [Done 29/2/16]
- obs.pl timeout fixes (Chris) [Done 29/2/16]
- recdir on flexbuf (Jamie^2)
LBA polarisation - update or advertise memos (Chris)
Automatic e-checklist (JamieS)
EVN tutorial comparison for LBA (Cormac→Chris)
- EVN analysis guide actually, but not done yet
Tsys data (Chris)
- continued
Continue 1921-293/1934-638 ATCA calibration
- not being done, still desirable, possibly use ATCA calibrator database as a first reference

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