===== LOFAR Status Meeting :: 09 Dec 2009 =====

==== Notes from the meeting ====

== LOFAR roll-out update (G. Heald) ==

  * new CEP connections for a couple of stations
  * team to install station electronics in Potsdam
  * all superterp stations validated!
  * position of station available through GoogleMaps -> link to be placed at one of the LOFAR pages

== Observatory status update (M. Brentjens) ==

  * entire super terp connected -> pointing will be verified today
  * no know electric fences at this moment
  * CS030 RCU 78 HBA signal is very bad
  * list nodes are phased out
  * lifs nodes are phased out
  * network modification completed, still resolving fall-out
  * estimated life-time of observations approx. 4--6 weeks, given the growing size of data-sets
  * solved issues:
    * MAC/SAS instability
    * RSP command dropped
    * discrete jumps in HBA power and RMS (possibly related to bad RCU in CS030)

== Wijnholds - Status HBA station calibration ==

  * three-level approach
    - characterization of the tiles
    - station level
    - array calibration -> selfcal at CEP
  * redundancy calibration
    * redundant baselines measure the same visibilities