Correlator Response Form
                Joint CSTG/IERS Call for Participation
           International VLBI Service for Geodesy and Astrometry


Correlator name:
              Astro/Geo Correlator at the Max-Planck-Institute for Radio
              Astronomy, Bonn, Germany

Parent/Funding organization:
              - Bundesamt fuer Kartographie und Geodaesie
              - Geodaetisches Institut der Universitaet Bonn
       in the framework of the Forschungsgruppe Satellitengeodaesie (FGS)


Name and title of primary technical contact:
              Dr. Axel Nothnagel, VLBI group leader

Name and title of administrative contact:

              Dr. Wolfgang Schlueter, 
              head of the Geodetic Fundamental Station Wettzell
              Bundesamt fuer Kartographie und Geodaesie
              Fundamentalstation Wettzell
              Sackenrieder Strasse 25
              D-93444 Koetzting
              Germany
              Phone:       +49 (9941) 603-107
              Fax:         +49 (9941) 603-222
              e-mail:      Schlueter@wettzell.ifag.de

              Prof. Dr. James Campbell, head VLBI/GPS section
              Geodaetisches Institut der Universitaet Bonn
              Nussallee 17
              D-53115 Bonn
              Germany
              Phone:       +49 (228) 73-3565
              Fax:         +49 (228) 73-2988
              e-mail:      campbell@sn_geod_1.geod.uni-bonn.de

Mailing address:
              Dr. Axel Nothnagel
              Geodaetisches Institut
              Nussallee 17
              D-53115 Bonn                      
              Germany
              Phone:       +49 (228) 73-3574
              Fax:         +49 (228) 73-2988
              E-mail:      nothnagel@uni-bonn.de

       Web address:
       http://giub.geod.uni-bonn.de/vlbi

List the networks/programs for which you correlate data.
              EUROPE
              IRIS-S
              test sessions
              TIGO fringe and performance tests

Indicate correlator capacity:  
       Number of baselines               12
       Number of stations                8
       Number of playback units          8
       Hours of operation per week       24 (geodesy only)

Number of full-time-equivalent personnel assigned to correlator functions:
       1 (plus 4 students), 1 for EUROPE programme (ends 2000)

Percentage of time correlator is used: 
       geodesy/astrometry         40/60

Percentage of total correlator capacity that is unused              10

Internet connection type or bit rate:        Data storage capacity:
       Fixed link                               9 GB


Data Center(s) you use:
       Geodaetisches Institut, Bonn
       Bundesamt fuer Kartographie und Geodaesie

Describe any planned facility upgrades.
       Installation of Mark IV correlator for 9 stations and 36 baselines,
       increase of percentage of use to 50% of the total time

Indicate which of the following IVS Correlator functions you perform and
explain briefly how you will provide them:
     Receive, process, and archive VLBI data
              Standard procedures for Mark III/IV
     Provide timely feedback to stations

     Maintain community tape pool
              Standard procedure
     Make data available to the Analysis Centers
              Via Geodetic Institute Bonn Analysis Center and Bundesamt fuer
              Kartographie und Geodaesie Data Center
     Compare processing techniques, models, and outputs
              Close interaction with other correlator centers

Attach a list of personnel (names and titles) whom you designate as IVS
Associate Members through their affiliation with your correlator.
       Arno Mueskens
       Axel Nothnagel
       Mauro Sorgente

Please provide any other information that you feel will be helpful in
demonstrating your correlator's capabilities to participate in the IVS. If
you proposed to the IERS in 1995/6 as a correlator facility and wish to have
that proposal carry over to the IVS, please make such a statement in this
proposal. 

       We have been correlator center for the above programmes for more than
       10 years and plan to continue this task in the future. We wish to carry
       over our proposal to the IERS.

Your signature on this form indicates your agreement to participate in the
IVS as a Correlator and to cooperate with the IVS Coordinating Center and
with the IVS Coordinators. If this is a new proposal (i.e. not carried over
from IERS) your signature commits your organization to participate in the
IVS.


Name of person signing: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hermann Seeger, 
Title: Praesident and Professor des Bundesamtes fuer Kartographie und Geodaesie

Signature: ___H. Seeger_____________________________   Date: ____Sep. 21, 1998


Name of person signing: Prof. Dr.-Ing. James Campbell:

Signature: __________J. Campbell____________________   Date: ___Sep. 21, 1998