Network Station Response Form Joint CSTG/IERS Call for Participation International VLBI Service for Geodesy and Astrometry Network Station name: NOTO (Sicily) Parent/Funding organization: Istituto di Radioastronomia C.N.R. Via Gobetti 101 40129 BOLOGNA ITALY Name and title of onsite technical contact: Dr. Gino Tuccari Name and title of administrative contact: Dr. Lucia Padrielli - Director Station mailing address: trigilio@ira.noto.cnr.it Onsite phone: Onsite fax: Onsite e-mail address: +39 0931 824111 +39 0931 824122 trigilio@ira.noto.cnr.it Web access onsite? Yes Internet access onsite? Yes http://www.ira.noto.cnr.it/ Internet connection type or bit rate: Check the collocated space geodetic techniques at your site: SLR___GPS_X_DORIS___PRARE___GLONASS___Gravimeter___ Other (specify): mobile SLR in the past Indicate the observing networks and programs in which your station regularly participates: NEOS___ EUROPE_X_ CORE-A___ CORE-B_X_ RDV___ IRIS-S___ Other (list): Percentage of time your station is used for geodesy/astrometry 10 % List other observing time allocations and percentages of each: 70 % Astronomical VLBI; 20 % other astronomical observations. Indicate the configuration(s) you use for data acquisition (check all that apply): Rack: Mark IIIA__ VLBA X VLBA-G__ Mark IV__ VLBA4__ K4__ S2__ LBA__ Other (list): Recorder: Mark IIIA__ VLBA X Mark IV__ S2__ P&G(VLBA)__ VLBA4__ K4 (specify type)__ Other (list): FS Version: 9.3.17 PC model: 486 50Hz Other control software/computer (specify): H-maser model: Oscilloquarz EFOS5 Other frequency standards: Rohde Schwarz XSRM 238.4011.02 GPS timing receiver model: TAC X/S receiver RF bandwidths: 400 MHz Number of full-time-equivalent personnel assigned to station functions: 4 (four) Describe any hardware/software/equipment upgrades that are planned for your station. Formatter Mark IV planned in 12 months. New S/X receiver with larger X band next 18 months. Panels dish substitutions and real time control of the antenna shape for high frequencies (not S/X) in 24 months. Attach a list of personnel (name, title, and e-mail address) whom you designate as IVS Associate Members through their affiliation with your station. Dr. Gino Tuccari tuccari@ira.noto.cnr.it Salvo Buttaccio buttaccio@ira.noto.cnr.it Dr. Carlo Stanghellini stanghellini@ira.noto.cnr.it Dr. Corrado Trigilio trigilio@ira.noto.cnr.it 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. The Noto antenna started to operate in geodetic VLBI in June 1989. Even if only recently the VLBA terminal in the configuration useful for geodetic observations has been completed, with the support of the VLBI group of the Goddard Space Flight Center, supplying a MARKIII terminal for several observations, the VLBI geodetic data produced in Noto have been of high quality. We are committed to mantain and inprove these results. During summer 1998 the subreflector has been modified and upgraded and now it is possible to automatically remove it in few minutes. In this way it is possible to move from secondary to prime focus (for geodetic observations) in less than 3 minutes under any weather condition. 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: Dr. Lucia Padrielli director Signature: _________________________________________ Date: _________________