Much of the Mark 5 documentation is updated frequently on the Haystack Web site. The files below include documentation versions as of about April 2009. 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 (15 pages, 696 KB)
  
• Mark 5 Advanced Topics: Dan Smythe (4 pages, 49 KB)
  
• Troubleshooting without a Mark IV Decoder: Dan Smythe (7 pages, 118 KB)
  
• Cryogenic System and Receiver Maintenance: Jay Redmond (10 pages, 49 KB)
  

Maintenance Workshops

• Mark 5 Disk Module Testing and Shipment: Don Sousa (2 pages, 13 KB)
  
• Automated Pointing Models Using the FS: Ed Himwich (17 pages, 145 KB)
  
• Antenna Gain Calibration: Alastair Gunn (26 pages, 104 KB)
  
• Generating ANTAB Tsys Files (ANTABFS): Alastair Gunn (5 pages, 213 KB)
  
• RFI Sources, Identification, Mitigation: Brian Corey (29 pages, 1,116 KB)
  
• Spectrum Analyzer Testing of Analog RF Systems: Brian Corey (19 pages, 981 KB)
  
• Hardware Maintenance: Rich Strand and Mike Poirier (6 pages, 36 KB)
  
• Hydrogen Maser Monitoring and Maintenance: Irv Diegel (23 pages, 72 KB)
  
• Mark 5 OS and Mark 5C Software Development: Chet Ruszczyk (7 pages, 19 KB)
  
• General Station Troubleshooting: Brian Corey, Dan Smythe, and Ed Himwich (64 pages, 3,226 KB)
  

Seminars

• Introduction to the K5 System: Mamoru Sekido (11 pages, 1,311 KB)
  
• Correlator Operations: Mike Titus and Alessandra Bertarini (73 pages, 3,046 KB)
  
• Linux System Administration: Chet Ruszczyk (27 pages, 50 KB)
  
• Pointing and Single Dish Amplitude Calibration Theory: Alastair Gunn (10 pages, 509 KB)
  
• Timing Systems: Tom Clark and Richard Hambly (23 pages, 2,896 KB)
  
• Writing Station-specific FS Code: Ed Himwich (28 pages, 9,905 KB)
  
• Topics in FS Station Software Coding: Ed Himwich (2 page, 59 KB)
  
• Phase Calibration Basics: Brian Corey (35 pages, 1,023 KB)
  
• e-VLBI Overview: Chet Ruszczyk (16 pages, 65 KB)
  
• Software Correlation: Mamoru Sekido (9 pages, 315 KB)
  
• FS Remote Interface Demonstration: Alexander Neidhardt (18 pages, 127 KB)
  

Lectures

• VLBI Basics: Kerry Kingham (22 pages, 1,223 KB)
  
• IVS Organization and Operations: Dirk Behrend (12 pages, 4,270 KB)
  
• Field System Near Term Future Plans: Ed Himwich (2 pages, 23 KB)
  
• Impact of Operations on Data Analysis: Ed Himwich (25 pages, 2,532 KB)
  
• Digital Backends and Digital Processing Methods: Alan Whitney (12 pages, 540 KB)
  
• Progress in VLBI2010: Arthur Niell (16 pages, 328 KB)
  
• Mark 5 System Overview: Alan Whitney (9 pages, 126 KB)
  
• Science Overview: Dan MacMillan (17 pages, 6,436 KB)
  

Please address questions or comments to the IVS Coordinating Center

Last updated: April 17, 2018