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Meeting ID: 3095

Chair: Tasso Tzioumis

Attendance: Shinji Horiuchi (SDCCC, Canberra); Claire Hotan, Aidan Hotan, Cormac Reynolds, Hayley Bignall (Curtin); Tasso Tzioumis, Chris Phillips, Shaun Amy, Phil Edwards (ATNF Marsfield); Simon Ellingson (UTas,Hobart), Brett Reid, Jamie McCallum (UTas, Mt. Pleasant); Richard Dodson (UWA)

Agenda

SPECIAL - DEBRIEF FROM MAR10 VLBI SESSION

• Review Actions from last meeting 2010Mar02

• Scheduling issues
• Observing support
• Reports from observatories
  • ATCA phasing
• Issues for correlator
• Disk transfers
• eVLBI issues

• Next VLBI session in May (6-10)

Actions arising

* Previous actions were not reviewed. Tasso to review and consolidate actions from previous meetings, and bring for discussion at next meeting. (Tasso)

• Install new version of SCHED and inform PIs (Cormac, Phil)

• Get Parkes DPFU numbers from last session (Shaun)
• Investigate how to propagate cal information (Tsys, DPFU) to PIs. Provide ANTAB file from correlator? (Hayley)

• Ensure VNC servers are started as shared to enable multiple access (All observatories)

• Debug and commission new version of cdisko and recorder servers (Jamie S., Chris)
  • Investigate cdisko ability to change record modes automatically (e.g. for v255) (Chris, Jamie S.)

• Sort out how to run the DAS control software at Tid. Maybe multiple options. (Shinji, Chris)

• More telescope health tests at correlator:
  • Check more of Cd data for phase problem (Hayley, Cormac)
  • Try for more data spot checks after sessions and data transfer (Curtin correlator)
  • Save good data from fringe-checks and correlate quickly to check telescope health (Chris, Cormac, Hayley)
    • Investigate use of cave cluster for fringe-check data correlation (Chris, Cormac)
  • Schedule special test observations for telescope checks if necessary (All)

Next meeting: Late April, prior to next session