Much of the Mark 5 documentation is updated frequently on the Haystack web site. The files below include documentation versions as of about May 2005. 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 (30 pages, 221 Kb)
  
• Mark 5A Verification and Use: Dan Smythe (16 pages, 131 Kb)
  
• Mark 5A Disk Module Assembly and Testing: Ken Wilson (8 pages, 300 Kb)
  
• Cryogenic System and Receiver Maintenance: Charles Kodak (9 pages, 41 Kb)
  

Lectures

• The Early Days of VLBI: Tom Clark (35 pages, 7,097 Kb)
  
• Mark 5B and e-VLBI Overview: Alan Whitney (17 pages, 1,346 Kb)
  
• Impact of Operations on Data Analysis: Ed Himwich (9 pages, 214 Kb)
  
• Science Overview: Arthur Niell (10 pages, 6,098 Kb)
  
• IVS Observing Program: Dirk Behrend (8 pages, 282 Kb)
  
• Field System Near Term Future Plans: Ed Himwich (4 pages, 84 Kb)
  
• Met Sensors: Arthur Niell (5 pages, 19 Kb)
  

Maintenance Workshops

• Automated Pointing Models Using the FS: Ed Himwich (13 pages, 71 Kb)
  
• Antenna Gain Calibration: Alastair Gunn and Andrea Orlati (25 pages, 416 Kb)
  
• Generating ANTAB Tsys Files (ANTABFS): Cormac Reynolds (10 pages, 309 Kb)
  
• RFI Sources, Identification, Mitigation: Brian Corey (27 pages, 1,125 Kb)
  
• Spectrum Analyzer Testing of Analog RF Systems: Brian Corey (17 pages, 903 Kb)
  
• Rack Maintenance: Tom Buretta (4 pages, 38 Kb)
  
• Mark 5A Software Updates, Upgrades, and Maintenance: John Ball (1 pages, 15 Kb)
  
• New OS for Mark 5 System: Jason SooHoo (15 pages, 73 Kb)
  
• General Station Troubleshooting and CONT05 Station Verification: Brian Corey and Ed Himwich (12 pages, 345 Kb)
  

Seminars (Special Interest Topics)

• Using S2 Systems: Mario Berube (18 pages, 470 Kb)
  
• Introduction to the K5 System: Yasuhiro Koyama (12 pages, 255 Kb)
  
• Correlator Operations: Mike Titus and Roger Cappallo (35 pages, 1,786 Kb)
  
• Introduction to Linux: Jonathan Quick (34 pages, 145 Kb)
  
• Linux System Administration: Jonathan Quick (60 pages, 754 Kb)
  
• Pointing and Single Dish Amplitude Calibration Theory: Alastair Gunn (9 pages, 1,504 Kb)
  
• Timing Systems: Tom Clark and Rick Hambly (23 pages, 7,537 Kb)
  
• Writing Station-specific FS Code: Ed Himwich (22 pages, 110 Kb)
  
• Topics in FS Station Software Coding: Ed Himwich (1 page, 13 Kb)
  
• Phase Calibration Basics: Brian Corey (31 pages, 1,849 Kb)
  
• Mark IV Decoder: Roger Cappallo (13 pages, 610 Kb)
  
• Hydrogen Maser Monitoring and Maintenance: Irv Diegel (23 pages, 85 Kb)
  
• Software Correlation: Yasuhiro Koyama (17 pages, 271 Kb)
  

Please address questions or comments to the IVS Coordinating Center

Last updated: April 17, 2018