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The EVN Technical and Operations Group (TOG) meeting will take place from June 25 to 26, 2024 in Göteborg and Onsala Space Observatory, Sweden.

More on the meeting website at Chalmers .

Coffee at the hotel from 08:30 CEST; target coffee/lunch breaks 10:00-10:30, 12:00-13:00, 15:00-15:30

• Start of the meeting 9:00 CEST
• Introduction, Action Items
• Update by the TOG Chair (Poppi)
• Performance of the EVN (Oh)
• Report from stations
  1. wide-band C/X status (all)
  2. triband receiver status (all)
     1. BRAND receiver integration tests at Effelsberg (Rahimi)
     2. operations (commissioning tests?) (Yang)
  3. DBBC3 status (all)
     1. DBBC3 (e-VLBI) tests (Eldering)
     2. 8-bit per sample tests (Yang)
  4. flexbuf / recorder can do » 8 Gbps? (all)
• System and network management at JIVE (Buijs)
• Recorder status?
  1. NcFTP station→JIVE slow speed (Feiler, everyone)
• RFI monitoring, CRAF, SpaceX/Starlink (Lindquist)
• Field System status/update(s) (Himwich)
• VLBA/NRAO update (Hunt)
• Next TOG Meeting

Note: only in-person attendance possible for the activities of this day

• 8:00 AM Bus leaves for Onsala Observatory from the hotel
• 9:00 AM Divide into two groups, two ~45min activities in parallel, then switch:
  1. DBBC3 hands-on + e-VLBI recap + e-VLBI with the DBBC3
  2. Tour of the observatory
• 10:30-11:00 coffee break
• 11:00 Open discussion (suggestions welcome) and wrapping up
• 13:00 Lunch
• 15:00 Back in Göteborg/bus will pass by airport for drop-off

Available tbd