Network Station Response Form
           Joint CSTG/IERS Call for Participation
   International VLBI Service for Geodesy and Astrometry
                              
Network Station name:         Westford Antenna, Haystack Observatory
  
Parent/Funding organization:  NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
  
Name and title of onsite technical contact:  Dr. Brian Corey
  
Name and title of administrative contact:    Mike Poirier
  
Station mailing address:           Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA 01886
  
Onsite phone:       1-978-692-4764      Onsite fax:    1-781-981-0590   
Onsite e-mail address:   westford@gemini.gsfc.nasa.gov
Web access onsite? Yes_X_ No__          Internet access onsite? Yes_X_No__ 
Internet connection type or bit rate:        T1
  
Check the collocated space geodetic techniques at your site: GPS_X_
       There is also a mobile SLR pad which has been occupied in the past.
  
Indicate the observing networks and programs in which your
  station regularly participates:
NEOS___ EUROPE___ CORE-A_X__ CORE-B_X__ RDV_X   IRIS-S_X_ Other (list):
  
Percentage of time your station is used for geodesy/astrometry __15%__
List other observing time allocations and percentages of each:     
        microwave propagation testing 85%
  
Indicate the configuration(s) you use for data acquisition
  (check all that apply): 
Rack:               Mark IV_X      Recorder:           Mark IV_X 
FS Version: 9.3.23  PC model:  SWT P200 
Other control computer: HP1000 for pointing
H-maser model: NR-3      Other frequency standards:
GPS timing receiver model:  TAC         
X/S receiver RF bandwidths: 8180-8980, 2210-2450 MHz
  
Number of full-time-equivalent personnel assigned to station functions:     1
  
Describe any hardware/software/equipment upgrades that are
planned for your station.
       Move pointing system to PC-FS computer in 1998 
  
Attach a list of personnel (names and titles) whom you
designate as IVS Associate Members through their affiliation
with your station.
       Dr. Brian Corey, Scientist, bcorey@haystack.mit.edu
       Mike Poirier, Technician, mpoirier@haystack.mit.edu
       Dr. Alan Whitney, Assistant Director, awhitney@haystack.mit.edu
       Dr. Arthur Niell, Scientist, aniell@haystack.mit.edu
  
  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. 
  
       We wish to have the IERS proposal for Westford as
  Network Station carry over to IVS.
  
  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:  John M. Bosworth    
  Title:    Associate Chief, Laboratory for Terrestrial Physics
  
  Signature: _________________________________________   Date:_____________