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Meeting ID: 3811

Chair: Tasso Tzioumis

Attendance: Shinji Horiuchi (SDCCC, Canberra); Aidan Hotan, Claire Hotan, Cormac Reynolds, Hayley Bignall (Curtin); Tasso Tzioumis, Chris Phillips, ATNF Marsfield); Phil Edwards, Jamie Stevens (ATNF, Narrabri); Jamie McCallum, Brett Reid (UTas, Mt Pleasant); Aidan Hotan (Curtin at UTas); Shaun Amy (ATnF) & Megan Argo (Curtin) (on mobile!)

Agenda

SPECIAL - DEBRIEF FROM DEC09 VLBI SESSION

• Scheduling issues
• Observing support
• Reports from observatories
• Issues for correlator
• eVLBI issues

Actions arising

N.B.: Only actions for Dec 09 VLBI session.

(For ongoing action items see list at Actions from last meeting 2009Dec02)

• Parkes cable changes should be documented in advance on Wiki (Chris/Cormac)
• Parkes observers should be notified of any “on-the-fly” cable changes (Chris/Ettore)
• For Parkes calibration, should try to get Tcal information from point/cal scans (Shaun/Ettore/Tasso/Chris)
• Ship Parkes Mk5 tapes to Bonn (Chris/Ettore)
• Ship Cd data on Mk5 observations from Curtin to Bonn, after conversion (Chris/Claire)

• Attend IVS mini-TOW workshop at Hobart on Feb 13, 2010 for more Mk5 training (All)

• Put review of scheduling on ops meeting agenda on Feb 12 (Tasso)
• Sort out DAS modes and Wiki (Cormac/Chris)

• Work on cdisko to address emerging issues (Jamie Stevens / Chris Phillips)
  • Review and add to cdisko issues wiki page (all)
  • Recode of cdisko (Jamie S)
  • Reports in ops meeting (Jamie S)
  • At ATNF do not run cdisko on recorder computers, to guard against problems (Chris/Jamie/Tasso)

• Check impact of delay offset in CABB polarisations by checking in AIPS (Cormac)

• Provide information and draft agenda on Ops workshop 12 Feb, 2010 at Hobart (Tasso)

Next meeting: LBA Ops Friday 12 Feb 2010, Hobart.