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

Network Station name: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Green Bank

Parent/Funding organization:  U.S. Naval Observatory 

Name and title of onsite technical contact: 
	Frank Ghigo, Associate Scientist
        Pete Chestnut, Telescope Operations Supervisor

Name and title of administrative contact: T.M. Eubanks, U.S. Naval Observatory

Station mailing address:  P.O. Box 2
                          Green Bank, WV 24944

Onsite phone: 304-456-2294 Onsite fax: 304-456-2200
Onsite e-mail address: gbiop@nrao.edu
                       gbiop@sadira.gb.nrao.edu

Web access onsite? Yes_x_ No__  Internet access onsite? Yes_x_No__   
Internet connection type or bit rate: 56k

Check the collocated space geodetic techniques at your site:
SLR___GPS___DORIS___PRARE____GLONASS___Gravimeter___ Other (specify):

Indicate the observing networks and programs in which your station regularly
participates:
NEOS_x__ EUROPE___ CORE-A____ CORE-B_x__ RDV_x__ IRIS-S____ Other (list): CRF

Percentage of time your station is used for geodesy/astrometry _100__
List other observing time allocations and percentages of each:

Indicate the configuration(s) you use for data acquisition (check all that
apply): 
Rack: Mark IIIA__ VLBA__ VLBA-G_x_ 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: 9.3.23  PC model: SWT P100
Other control software/computer (specify):
H-maser model: Sigma Tau      Other frequency standards: NR maser
GPS timing receiver model:  TAC        
X/S receiver RF bandwidths: 2210-2450 MHz, 8180-8980 MHz

Number of full-time-equivalent personnel assigned to station functions: 3

Describe any hardware/software/equipment upgrades that are planned for your
station. 

Attach a list of personnel (names and titles) whom you designate as IVS
Associate Members through their affiliation with your station.
      Frank Ghigo, fghigo@NRAO.EDU
      Pete Chestnut, mchestnu@sadira.gb.nrao.edu
      T.M. Eubanks, tme@cygx3.usno.navy.mil

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 NRAO20 is an essential part of the NEOS network, both in the weekly
24-hour-duration sessions, and in the UT1 intensives.

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:  Kenneth J. Johnston
Title:  Scientific Director, U.S. Naval Observatory



Signature: _________________________________________   Date: _________________