2nd GTG Meeting Ventspils May 22nd 2017

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Local Arrangements/Opening Remarks (NN)
Agenda
Minutes from last meeting
- AIs from last meeting
Reports from the stations (all)
- Metsähovi (Kallunki) 10 min
- Pico Veleta (Sanchez)
Report from correlator
- Session 1/2016 (Alef)
- Session 2/2016 (Alef)
- Session 1/2017 (preliminary results) (Rottmann)
- Changes in procedures/personnel (Rottmann)
GMVA observations & operations
- News on setting-up and running observations (Bach, all))
- Communication during observing? (Rottmann)
- Changes in scheduling (Fringe tests, calibration runs, regular test runs)
- repository for common GMVA tools?
GMVA calibration - Discussion session
- necessary steps to improve the calibration quality
  - weather, TPI/TPICAL/CALTEMP, chopper wheel
- antab file generation:
- determine K/Jy conversion on e.g. bright planet (in gaps?)
- gain curves, new gain curves for next session
- opacity
- plots of TSYS, weather, tau (e.g. Ef tsm plots)
- calibration quality control at the correlator
- store all files on Bologna server
- additional topics
ALMA and GMVA
- Overview of the current state
  - sampler stats and AC after each scan needed
- calibration with full-band mode, ANTAB (DBBC2) (Bach, all)
AOB:
- control and monitoring
- Going to 4Gbps?
- GMVA block schedule - comments?
- Next meeting?
closing remarks