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Much of the Mark 5 documentation is updated frequently on the Haystack Web site. The files below include documentation versions as of about April 2007. For the latest Mark 5 documents, please visit the web site at http://www.haystack.edu/tech/vlbi/mark5/.

Operation Workshops

• Experiment Pre-Checks and Operations: Rich Strand and Mike Porier (40 pages, 20,917 KB)
  
• Mark 5B Operations: Dan Smythe (13 pages, 162 KB)
  
• Cryogenic System and Receiver Maintenance: Jay Redmond (10 pages, 49 KB)
  

Maintenance Workshops

• Mark 5A Disk Module Testing and Shipment: Don Sousa and David Fields (3 pages, 20 KB)
  
• Automated Pointing Models Using the FS: Ed Himwich (17 pages, 179 KB)
  
• Antenna Gain Calibration: Alastair Gunn (27 pages, 139 KB)
  
• Generating ANTAB Tsys Files (ANTABFS): Cormac Reynolds (10 pages, 223 KB)
  
• RFI Sources, Identification, Mitigation: Brian Corey (28 pages, 1,238 KB)
  
• Spectrum Analyzer Testing of Analog RF Systems: Brian Corey (18 pages, 950 KB)
  
• Rack Maintenance: Rich Strand and Mike Poirier (4 pages, 38 KB)
  
• Mark-5A and Mark-5B Software Updates, Testing, and Maintenance: John Ball (1 page, 76 KB)
  
• New OS for Mark 5 System: Chet Ruszczyk (12 pages, 46 KB)
  
• General Station Troubleshooting: Brian Corey, Dan Smythe, and Ed Himwich (63 pages, 3,841 KB)
  

Seminars

• Correlator Theory: Kerry Kingham (27 pages, 20,142 KB)
  
• Correlator Operations: Mike Titus (35 pages, 20,130 KB)
  
• Introduction to Linux: Jonathan Quick (18 pages, 85 KB)
  
• Linux System Administration: Jonathan Quick (27 pages, 304 KB)
  
• Pointing and Single Dish Amplitude Calibration Theory:
  Cormac Reynolds and Alastair Gunn (14 pages, 211 KB)
  Alastair Gunn (9 pages, 1,504 KB)
  
• Timing Systems: Tom Clark (25 pages, 6,278 KB)
  
• Writing Station-specific FS Code: Ed Himwich (29 pages, 1,709 KB)
  
• Topics in FS Station Software Coding: Ed Himwich (2 page, 59 KB)
  
• Phase Calibration Basics: Brian Corey (32 pages, 1,000 KB)
  
• Mark IV Decoder: Roger Cappallo (15 pages, 667 Kb)
  
• Hydrogen Maser Monitoring and Maintenance: Irv Diegel (24 pages, 118 KB)
  
• e-VLBI Overview: Chet Ruszczyk (31 pages, 629 KB)
  
• Introduction to the K5 System: Yasuhiro Koyama (8 pages, 550 KB)
  
• K5 Software Correlator: Yasuhiro Koyama (22 pages, 156 KB)
  

Lectures

• How VLBI Works: Tom Clark (17 pages, 5,871 KB)
  
• Mark 5 System Overview: Alan Whitney (14 pages, 9,301 KB)
  
• Impact of Operations on Data Analysis: Ed Himwich (25 pages, 2,532 KB)
  
• Science Overview: Arthur Niell (11 pages, 5,096 KB)
  
• IVS Observing Program: Dirk Behrend (12 pages, 554 KB)
  
• Field System Near Term Future Plans: Ed Himwich (4 pages, 73 KB)
  

Please address questions or comments to the IVS Coordinating Center

Last updated: May 17, 2007