Network Station Response Form
     Joint CSTG/IERS Call for Participation
International VLBI Service for Geodesy and Astrometry
 
Network Station Name: MIZUSAWA (10m diameter)
Parent/Funding organization: National Astronomical Observatory of Japan 
     (NAOJ),Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture(MESSC)

Name and title of onsite technical contact: 
 -Dr. Osamu KAMEYA(Staff member, Mizusawa Astrogeodynamics
  Observatory, NAOJ)
Name and title of administrative contact: 
 -Prof. Dr. Seiji MANABE(Director, Mizusawa Astrogeodynamics 
  Observatory,NAOJ)

Station mailing address: Mizusawa-shi, Iwate-ken, 023-0861 JAPAN
 -Onsite phone: 81-197-22-7111  
 -Onsite fax: 81-197-22-7120  
 -Onsite e-mail address: kameya@miz.nao.ac.jp
Web access onsite? Yes        Internet access onsite? Yes
Internet connection type or bit rate: 128KB/s

Check the collocated space geodetic techniques at your site: 
 -Mobile GPS's, and a superconducting gravimeter at the site about 17km 
   east of the antenna site. 
Indicate the observing networks and programs in which your station regularly
   participate:
 -No geodetic VLBI network in which Mizusawa 10m antenna regularly
   participates.
 -Temporal geodetic VLBI observations with Urumqi and Crimea using K4
  system which NAOJ has distributed.
 -Antarctic geodetic VLBI observations with global Mark-IV and S2 stations
   together with K4 Syowa station; correlation made at NAOJ.
Percentage of time your station is used for geodesy/astrometry:
 -15% of total observations time (about 25hrs x 50days a year)                  
List other observing time allocations and percentages of each: 
 -Mainly VLBI observations of astronomical maser sources at 22GHz using
   J(apanese)-NET composed of several Japanese antennas: 70% of total
   observation time
 -Radio sources surveying as a single dish: rest of the antenna time  

Rack: MarkIIIA, K4
Recorder: MarkIIIA (write only), K4
FS version: Schedule and log files compatible with Mark-III FS,  
 PC model: IBM PC compatible 
H-maser model: CH1-75 (Russia)
GPS timing receiver: Trimble Model 5000A     
X/S receiver RF bandwidth: 2MHz, 4MHz, 16 channels
Number of full-time-equivalent personnel assigned to station functions: 2 to 3
Describe any hardware/software/equipment upgrades that are planned for your
  station:
 -We wish to introduce MarkIV type recording in the next fiscal year.

Attach a list of personnel (names and titles) whom you designate as IVS
Associate Members through their  affiliation with your station: 
  -Prof. Dr. Seiji MANABE & Mr. Yoshiaki TAMURA (Staff member, Earth
   Rotation Division, NAOJ)

Please provide any other information that you feel will be helpful in
  demonstrating your station's capabilities to participate in the IVS. If you
  proposed to the IERS in 1995/6 as a radio telescope observatory and wish to
  have that proposal carry over to the IVS, please make such a statement in this
  proposal.
 -We have proposed to the IERS in 1996 as a radio telescope observatory. This
  proposal to the IVS is essentially the same as that.

Your signature on this form indicates your agreement to participate in the IVS as
  a Network Station, to comply with IVS performance standards for data quality
  and operational reliability, and to work closely with the IVS Network and
  Technology 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:             Title:
Koichi YOKOYAMA                     Director, Division of Earth Rotation, 
                                    National Astronomical Observatory, Japan