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

Network Station name:	Ny-Alesund Geodetic Observatory

Parent/Funding organization: 	Norwegian Mapping Authority

Name and title of onsite technical contact:	Leif Morten Tangen

Name and title of administrative contact:	Rune I. Hanssen

Station mailing address:  Ny-Alesund Geodetic Observatory, 
                          N-9173 Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, Norway

Onsite phone: +47-79027010 Onsite fax: +47-79027148  
Onsite e-mail address: vlbi@gdiv.statkart.no

Web access onsite? Yes_x_ No __ Internet access onsite? 
Yes_x_No__   Internet connection type or bit rate: 64 Kbit

Check the collocated space geodetic techniques at your site:
SLR___GPS_x_DORIS_x_PRARE_x_GLONASS_x_Gravimeter_x_ Other 
(specify): tide gauge

Indicate the observing networks and programs in which your 
station regularly participates:
NEOS_x_ EUROPE_x_ CORE-A___ CORE-B_x_ RDV_x_ IRIS-S___ 
Other (list): MARS, CNAPS

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__ Mark IV_x_ VLBA4__ K4__ 
S2__ LBA__ Other (list):
Recorder: Mark IIIA__ VLBA__ Mark IV_x_ S2__ P&G(VLBA)__ 
VLBA4__  K4 (specify type)__  Other (list):

FS Version: 9.3.23		PC model: SWT		
Other control software/computer (specify):
H-maser model:	nr02		Other frequency standards: none
GPS timing receiver model: FTS8400/TAC     
X/S receiver RF bandwidths: S 2.0-2.5 GHz, X 8.0-9.0 

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

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

New decoder.

Attach a list of personnel (names and titles) whom you 
designate as IVS Associate Members through their 
affiliation with your station.

Leif Morten Tangen, Rune I. Hanssen, Bjørn Engen, Hans-
Peter Plag

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. 




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:	Bjorn Engen		
Title: Direktor, Geodetic Institute, NMA


Signature: _________________________________________ Date: _________________