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

Yellowknife Geophysical Observatory

Parent/Funding organization: 

Geodetic Survey Division, Natural Resources Canada

Name and title of onsite technical contact:

Bill Outhwaite
VLBI Operations

Note: VLBI operations at Yellowknife are supported by the VLBI
Operations group, GSD, Ottawa.

Name and title of administrative contact:

Mario Berube
Team Leader, VLBI Operations

Station mailing address:

Bill Outhwaite
Geodetic Survey Division
Natural Resources Canada
P.O. Box 2399
Lot 1018
Yellowknife, NT
Canada
X1A 2P8
                              Onsite phone:  (867) 873-4573
                              Onsite fax:    (867) 873-4574
                              Onsite e-mail address: xgeop@ssimicro.com
Web access onsite? No 
Internet access onsite? Yes

Check the collocated space geodetic techniques at your site:
SLR___
GPS X
DORIS X
PRARE___
GLONASS___ 
Gravimeter X 
Other (specify):

The GSD maintains a permanent GPS monitoring station, which is
also used by all IGS Analysis Centers as a fiducial reference. A
DORIS beacon has been located at the site since 1988 in support
of CNES programs. Absolute gravity and continuous geomagnetic and
seismological array observations are also available for the site,
which is located on the stable pre-Cambrian Canadian Shield.
Local site stability is monitored with high precision.

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

NAPS

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_X_ VLBA__ VLBA-G__ Mark IV__ VLBA4__ K4__ S2__
LBA__ Other (list):
Recorder: Mark IIIA_X_ VLBA__ Mark IV__ S2__ P&G(VLBA)__ VLBA4__ 
K4 (specify type)__  Other (list):
FS Version: 9.3.23       
PC model: P200      
Other control software/computer (specify):
H-maser model: NR maser            
Other frequency standards:
GPS timing receiver model: Turbo Rogue            
X/S receiver RF bandwidths: 2210-2450 MHz S-band, 8180-8980 MHz X-band

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

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

An S2 Data Acquisition System (DAS) and Recording Terminal (RT)
will be installed in 1999. 

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

Mario Berube, Team Leader - VLBI Operations
Bill Outhwaite, VLBI Operations
George Jenson, VLBI Operations

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. 

VLBI at the Yellowknife Geophysical Observatory involves
operation of the MV-1 9m radio telescope as part of the global
fiducial network for the maintenance of the terrestrial reference
frame. The MV-1 VLBI system on long-term loan from NASA has been
used regularly in the NAPS series of experiments since 1990.
General specifications for the 9m MV-1 system can be obtained
from NASA.

The Yellowknife Geophysical Observatory was included in the
proposal to the IERS and we wish this to carry over to the 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:  Norman Beck               
Title: Chief, Active Control Systems


Signature: _________________________________________   Date: _________________