Network Station Response Form 
         Joint CSTG/IERS Call for Participation 
       International VLBI Service for Geodesy and Astrometry
                                
Network Station name:JARE Syowa 11 m antenna station (SYOWA)

Parent/Funding organization:National Institute of Polar Research
	Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, Japan

Name and title of onsite technical contact: TBD(change yearly according
to the exchange of JARE wintering team)

Name and title of administrative contact: Kazuo Shibuya, Center of
Antarctic Environment Monitoring (CAEM)

Station mailing address:Syowa Station, Antarctica

Onsite phone:+873-343-198510  Onsite fax: +873-343-198541  
Onsite e-mail address:jare**@nipr.ac.jp (** corresponds to the JARE's number.)

Web access onsite? Yes__ No *  Internet access onsite? Yes * No__   
Internet connection type or bit rate:INMARSAT uucp  9.6 kbps

Check the collocated space geodetic techniques at your site:
SLR___GPS * DORIS * PRARE * GLONASS___Gravimeter *  
Other (specify):Ocean Tide, Seismometer

Indicate the observing networks and programs in which your station regularly
participates: NEOS___ EUROPE___ CORE-A___ CORE-B___
RDV___ IRIS-S___ Other (list): Antarctic VLBI

Percentage of time your station is used for geodesy/astrometry 10 %
List other observing time allocations and percentages of each:JERS-1  30%,
ERS-2  20%, EXOS-D  40%

Indicate the configuration(s) you use for data acquisition 
(check all that apply): 
Rack: Mark IIIA__ VLBA__ VLBA-G__ Mark IV__ VLBA4__ K4 * S2__ LBA__ Other :
Recorder: Mark IIIA__ VLBA__ Mark IV__ S2__ P&G(VLBA)__ VLBA4__  K4 * (specify
type)__  Other (list):
FS Version:         PC model:      Other control software/computer (specify):
H-maser model:Anritsu RH401A Other frequency standards:Cs FS9 equivalent/Fujitsu
GPS timing receiver model:
X/S receiver RF bandwidths:X 8180-8580MHz, S 2200-2400 MHz

Number of full-time-equivalent personnel assigned to station functions: 
1 or 2 (in a JARE project system)

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.

Kazuo Shibuya, Prof. Geophysics, CAEM NIPR
Koichiro Doi, Research Associate, CAEM NIPR

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. 

total allocation time 12 days (288 hours)
tape transport once a year
first priority geodesy, second priority astrometry
No plan to change S/X bands for the coming 5 years

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:  Takeo Hirasawa    
Title: Director General, National Institute of Polar Research

Signature: _________________________________________ Date: 17 Sep, 1998