Network Station Response Form
             Joint CSTG/IERS Call for Participation
     International VLBI Service for Geodesy and Astrometry
                                
Network Station name:
ERS/VLBI Station O'Higgins

Parent/Funding organization:
1. Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR), 
   (satellite communication)
2. Bundesamt fuer Kartographie und Geodaesie (BKG), (VLBI, geodesy)

Name and title of onsite technical contact:
Andreas Reinhold (BKG), (onsite during operation periods)

Name and title of administrative contact:
Wolfgang Schlueter (BKG), head of Fundamentalstation Wettzell
Johannes Ihde (BKG), Leipzig

Station mailing address:
Bundesamt fuer Kartographie und Geodaesie
Aussenstelle Leipzig
Projekt O'Higgins
Karl-Rothe-Strasse 10-14
D-04105 Leipzig
GERMANY

Onsite phone:          
+871-1120-170 (O'Higgins)
+49-314-5634-0 (Leipzig)

Onsite fax:   
+871-1120-227 (O'Higgins)
+49-314-5634-415 (Leipzig)

Onsite e-mail address:
ar@leipzig.ifag.de
rw@leipzig.ifag.de

Web access onsite? No
Internet access onsite? No   
Internet connection type or bit rate:

Check the collocated space geodetic techniques at your site:
SLR no
GPS yes
DORIS no
PRARE yes
GLONASS no
Gravimeter yes, during campaigns
Other (specify):
tide gauge

Indicate the observing networks and programs in which your station regularly
participates:
NEOS no
EUROPE no 
CORE-A no 
CORE-B yes, during campaigns with CORE-OHIG 
RDV no 
IRIS-S yes, during campaigns 
Other (list):
no

Percentage of time your station is used for geodesy/astrometry: 
50 %
List other observing time allocations and percentages of each: 
satellite tracking 50%

Indicate the configuration(s) you use for data acquisition 
(check all that apply): 
Rack: VLBA-G yes
Mark IIIA__ VLBA__ Mark IV__ VLBA4__ K4__ S2__ LBA__ no
Recorder: VLBA yes
Mark IIIA__ VLBA__ Mark IV__ S2__ P&G(VLBA)__ VLBA4__ K4 (specify type)__ no

FS Version: 
8.21

PC model: 
TAG, i486, 50MHz     

Other control software/computer (specify): no

H-maser model: 
EFOS-11

Other frequency standards:
HP Cesium standard

GPS timing receiver model:  
ELNA            

X/S receiver RF bandwidths:
8100-8900 MHz / 2150-2350 MHz

Number of full-time-equivalent personnel assigned to station functions:
1

Describe any hardware/software/equipment upgrades that are planned for your
station.
Upgrade to Mk4.

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

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. 
Since 1992 O'Higgins is contributing to the IERS.
We wish to have the IERS proposal carried over.

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

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