==== Joint EVN TOG/GMVA Technical Meeting 4 & 5 Sep 2025 ====

The EVN Technical and Operations Group (TOG) and GMVA Technical meeting will take place from Sep 4 to 5, 2025 in Cagliari (INAF).

=== Logistics ===

More on the meeting [[ https://indico.ict.inaf.it/event/3276 | website]].

=== Agenda  ===

== Day 1 4 Sept 2025 ==


Start of the meeting 9:00 CEST

  - Introduction, [[ https://deki.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/Working_Groups/EVN_TOG/Current_Action_Items | Action Items ]]
  - Update by the TOG Chair (**Poppi**)
  - Performance of the EVN (**JIVE supp.sci**)
  - Beam maps **missing**:
      - L-band: **Hh**, **Jb**, **Nt**, **T6**, **Wb**, **Ir** (**Ur** not even in table)
      - C-band: **Hh**, **Jb**, **Mc**, **Nt**, **T6**, **Wb** (Id.)
  - EVN Technical Roadmap Oct 2020; derived from EVN 2020-30 Science Vision
      - {{ tog:technicalroadmap2020-recommendations.pdf | Let's recap what stations and correlator were advised to do }}
      - Report from stations
      - Recorder status - 4+ Gbps capable?
      - Formation of TOG DBBC3 taskforce
  - Proposal to decommission the EVN Monitor (no action at all on **Current Action Item#6**)
      - nobody uses it
      - only few stations upload data ([[ https://www.jive.eu/jivewiki/lib/exe/fetch.php?cache=&media=tog:evn-monitor-last-6months-data.png | four stations in the last half year ]])
      - complete waste of time & resources (energy consumption, maintenance)
  - Ageing disk pool @ JIVE (**Verkouter**)
  - (Target-and-Observation Manager software for e.g. single dish or "mini array", building on ORP-PILOT experience)?
  - Projects at JIVE (**Verkouter**)
  - Next TOG Meeting

== Day 2: 5 Sept 2025 ==

// GMVA Technical meeting//

Start of the meeting 9:30 CEST

   - Frequency-Phase Transfer (technical implementation)
   - ...

=== Station Reports ===

Available [[[ link-to-follow |here]] 

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