Much of the Mark 5 documentation is updated frequently on the Haystack web site. The files below include documentation versions as of about September 2003. For the latest Mark 5 documents, please visit the web site at http://web.haystack.mit.edu/mark5/operations.html.

Operation Workshops

• Experiment Pre-Checks and Operations: Rich Strand & Mike Porier (19 pages, 66Kb)
  
• Automated pointing models using the FS: Ed Himwich (13 pages, 50Kb)
  
• Mark 5A Operations: Alan Whitney, Dan Smythe & John Ball (38 pages, 807Kb)
  
• Mark 5A module asembly and testing: Dave Fields (8 pages, 284Kb)
  

Lectures

• Mark 5 System Overview: Alan Whitney (35 pages, 1.6Mb)
  
• Impact of Operations on Data Analysis: Ed Himwich (2 pages, 25Kb)
  
• Science Overview: Chopo Ma
  
• IVS Observing Program Evolution: Nancy Vandenberg (15 pages, 680Kb)
  
• Field System Future Plans: Ed Himwich (3 pages, 23Kb)
  
• e-VLBI Overview: David Lapsley (49 pages, 3.7Mb)
  

Maintenance Workshops

• Mark 5A software and Red Hat Linux Maintenance: John Ball (102 pages, 2.1 Mb)
  
• Mark 5A testing, troubleshooting and maintenance: Alan Whitney, Dan Smythe & John Ball (17 pages, 491Kb)
  
• Antenna gain calibration: Carl Holmstrom (11 pages, 961 Kb)
  
• Tape Recorder Workshop: Tom Buretta & Dan Smythe (44 pages, 679 Kb)
  
• Rack Maintenance: Tom Buretta & Dan Smythe (18 pages, 48Kb)
  
• RFI: Brian Corey
  
• Spectrum Analyzer Testing of Analog RF Systems: Brian Corey
  

Seminars (Special Interest Topics)

• Using S2 Systems: Mario Berube (15 pages, 173Kb)
  
• Introduction to the K5 System: Yasuhiro Koyama (5 pages, 226Kb)
  
• Correlator Operations: Mike Titus, Kerry Kingham & Arno Mueskens (53 pages, 14.6 Mb)
  
• Introduction to Linux: Jonathan Quick (22 pages, 76Kb)
  
• Linux System Administration: Jonathan Quick (27 pages, 104Kb)
  
• Pointing and Single Dish Amplitude Calibration Theory: Alex Kraus (16 pages, 583Kb)
  
• Timing Systems: Tom Clark & Rick Hambly (25 pages, 6.8 Mb)
  
• Writing Station-specific FS Code: Ed Himwich (23 pages, 56 Kb)
  
• Mark 4 Decoder: Roger Cappallo & Brian Corey (9 pages, 290Kb)
  
• Topics in FS Station Sofware Code: Ed Himwich
  
• Hydrogen Maser Monitoring and Maintenance: Irv Diegel (24 pages, 340Kb)
  

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