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Meeting ID: 2804

Chair: Tasso Tzioumis

Attendance: Shinji Horiuchi (SDCCC, Canberra);Claire Hotan, Aquib Moin, Cormac Reynolds(Curtin); Tasso Tzioumis, Chris Phillips, David Jauncey(ATNF Marsfield); Ettore Carretti (ATNF, Parkes); Phil Edwards (ATNF, Narrabri); Jamie McCallum (UTas, Mt Pleasant), Jim Lovell(UTas,Hobart); Roopesh Ojha (USNO at Marsfield)

Apologies: Steven Tingay, Hayley Bignall, Simon Ellingsen, Tim Natush, Sergei Gulyaev

Agenda

• Review of Actions from last meeting 27Aug09

• Review of Actions carried from second last meeting 29Jul09

• REPORTS/UPDATES
  • Last VLBI Session
  • DiFX meeting

• Issues for sessions this semester

• Discussion with Roopesh.

• Feb 2010 VLBI meetings
  • IVS meeting in Hobart (Lovell)
    • ftp://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/general-meeting/2010/poster/IVSGM_2010_Poster_thumb.jpg Meeting web page
  • Astro meetings in NZ (Tingay)
  • LBA ops/eVLBI mtg?
• Update on New Zealand antenna (Gulyaev)
• AuScope Update (Lovell)
  • See the AuScope VLBI web page

• AOB

Actions arising Updated full list as at 9/10/09. (new items in blue**)

GENERAL

• Correlated data archive work to be completed for all Disk-based VLBI observations correlated at Swinburne and Curtin. Copies of archive at Curtin and ATNF (Claire/Chris/Tasso)

• Update advice to PIs on keeping the ATCA phased at 8 GHZ and above. Check CABB developments (Tasso/Richard/Chris)

• Complete SCHED update for the LBA and update list of “standard” LBA setups. (Cormac/Tasso)
  • Merge SCHED SVN branches to new version by end of year (Cormac)
  • Coordinate SCHED changes with FS scripts. (Cormac)
  • Get Tid FS version to Cormac. (Shinji)

• Mk5 Disks. New units to be ordered for correlation in Curtin and/or Bonn. Steven and Tasso to coordinate.

• Always correlate LBA data with all 4 Stokes, unless PI objects. Start implementation and monitor progress. (Correlator)

• Unified LBA monitoring and control, to include Ho & Cd. Continue to develop. (Simon/Jamie/Tasso)

• Investigate differential GPS setups for troposphere/ionosphere calibration (Chris/Cormac/Jamie)

OTHER

• eVLBI data pipeline to be set on Cave (Cormac/Chris/Aquib)

• Check for GMRT shipment of test VLBI data to Curtin. (Tasso)

• cdisko upgrade very good. Only additional feature requested is a scroll-bar on the cdisko window. (Jamie S.)

• XFS on disks to be further checked at 512 Mbps on production run.(Chris/Jamie)

• eSATA disks for Tid data copying and transfer. (Chris/Shinji)

• Check on status of ATNF C-band (4.8 GHz) Rx at Parkes. (Phil)

• Change software correlators to DiFX 1.5. eVLBI for next session. Needs other changes to scripts and userguides (Cormac/Chris)

• Replace faulty network switch on CAVE (Chris/Shaun)

• Possible to do 1-baseline at 3 Gbps with ATNF antennas. Will require some DAS developments. Science project proposals to Chris.

MEETINGS and DEMOS

• e-VLBI demo on 11th Nov. ATNF to find observer support at Parkes.

• e-VLBI demo with Fortaleza. Network tests to be done first. (Chris/Tasso)

• Next LBA ops/e-VLBI meeting next February, during IVS week in Hobart (8-12th),likely on Thu-Fri (11-12). Explore and coordinate. (Tasso)

• APAN e-VLBI demo on afternoon 10th February. Need to coordinate technical requirements with AARNet. Already in ATNF schedule.(Chris/Tasso)

• Next telecon: 02 December 2009, 2:00 pm Sydney time (Tasso/Chris/Cormac)