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Meeting ID: 9580

Chair: Tasso Tzioumis

Attendance: Cormac Reynolds, Hayley Bignall (Curtin); Tasso Tzioumis, Chris Phillips, Phil Edwards, Yiannis Gonidakis (CASS Marsfield); Jamie Stevens (CASS Narrabri); Jamie McCallum, Simon Ellingsen (UTas); Tim Natush (NZ)

Apologies:

Agenda

• Planning for next VLBI session(s)
  • 13-18 June 2013 LBA session
    • Scheduling issues
    • Observation support
      • ASKAP support
      • Parkes support
      • ATCA phasing at 22 GHz
      • Mopra
    • AuScope participation
    • NZ participation
    • Tests
      • With KVN
      • NEXPRES & BoD
    • Any other issues

• 14-19 August 2013 LBA session
  • NTFN testing

• Upcoming RadioAstron observations ?

• Wiki logs

• Data transfers.

• News and Reports from observatories & correlator(s)

• e-VLBI developments/demos

• Future plans: LBA wide-banding?
  • Xcube tests
  • telescope issues
  • correlator issues
  • e-VLBI

• Organise scientific meeting in Northern Territory in 2014?

• Review of Actions from meeting on 27 March 2013

• AOB

Actions arising

CARRIED FORWARD/UPDATED/CONTINUING

• LBA data archive consolidation and copy at CASS. (CASS, Curtin)
  • LBA data archive. Need ATNF disk space (Tasso, Shaun) Continuing

• ATCA phasing. Check performance and implementation (Jamie S, Richard) Updated

• ATCA Tsys via CABB (CASS) Updated
  • Investigate implementation by Bob Sault (Tasso)

• Observer training and remote observing (Tasso) Continuing

• Wiki logs (All) Continuing
  • Annual “best” wiki-log competition. To be judged by correlator. (Tasso)

• Schedule more 32 GHz tests with ATCA? (Phil) Continuing
  • Do local VLBI test between 2 ATCA antennas to check local issues (Chris, Jamie S)

• NEXPReS BoD tests and demo would need time around June 2013 (Tasso, Phil) Updated
  • Distributed correlation with Curtin (Cormac, Chris)
  • BoD test (Chris, Tasso)
  • COMBINE the 2 tests? (Tasso)

• Pawsey centre access for VLBI and eVLBI (Chris, Cormac) Continuing

• Linear to Circular polarisation conversion. Most immediate for ASKAP data. (Chris, Richard, Cormac) Continuing

• Monitoring “check-list” for ATNF telescopes (Chris, Jamie S) Continuing

NEW ACTION ITEMS

• Try out phase-cal for ATCA tying every cal scan (Jamie S.) Done

• KVN tests organisation (Richard, Chris) Done

• Monica implementation at Ceduna (Jamie & Jamie) Continuing
• Remote access to Ceduna VNC via Hobart? (Tasso, Jamie M.) Continuing

• Remote access to Ww (Stuart, Tasso) Continuing

• Logs timely transfers to FTP area and/or Wiki (ALL) Continuing

• Simon Ellingsen complex schedules. Send frequency changes list to Ettore (Parkes) and Quick (Hart) for development of LO setups (Simon, Chris) Updated

• Consult with Carrad and Sault about Tsys implementation on the CABB (Tasso) Continuing

STANDING ACTION ITEMS

• VLBI science meeting in 2014 at Darwin (?) and setup LOC, SOC (Tasso)

Next meeting: 24 June 2013