International Earth Rotation Service - VLBI Technical Development Center News No.11

published by
Communications Research Laboratory, 4-2-1 Nukui-kita, Koganei, Tokyo 184-8795, Japan

CONTENTS

• Overview of the Eleventh TDC Meeting (T. Kondo)
• Technical Reports
  • Evaluation of Daily Repeatability of Baseline Lengths in the Key Stone Project VLBI Network (T. Kondo, et al.)
  • Performance of KSP Real-time VLBI Correlation Processing Software (RKATS) (M. Sekido, et al.)
  • Keystone Project SLR: Kashima Accuracy Validation Test --Kashima Colocation-- (H. Kunimori, et al.)
  • Tie of the Key Stone Project VLBI Network to the International Terrestrial Reference Frame (Y. Koyama, et al.)
  • Evaluation of a GPS Time and Frequency Reference Receiver as a VLBI Frequency Standard (T. Kondo and J. Amagai)
  • Millisecond Pulsar Observation System at CRL (Y. Hanado, et al.)
  • Construction of New LF Station for Time and Frequency Service (M. Imae)
  • Basic Research of Key Technologies for Next Generation Global Navigation Satellite System (M. Imae)
  • Giga-bit VLBI, Progress on G-bit Sampler (J. Nakajima)
• News-News-News
  • Message to the Key Stone Project (T. Herring)
    
    

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    Technical Development Center (TDC) at the Communications Research Laboratory (CRL) is supposed to do
    1) the development of new observation techniques and new systems for advanced Earth's rotation observations by VLBI and other space techniques,
    2) the promotion of research in Earth rotation by advanced methods in VLBI,
    3) the distribution of new VLBI technology.
    The TDC meeting, attended by the ordinary members from inside the CRL and the special members from the outside, is held twice a year. The special members advise the committee, concerning the plan of technical developments. The TDC newsletter is published biannually by CRL to inform the IERS community its current activities.

    This news was edited by Tetsuro Kondo and Yasuhiro Koyama, Kashima Space Research Center, who are editorial staff members of TDC at the Communications Research Laboratory, Japan. The editors wish to thank Dr.O.J.Sovers for his kind help in the correction of the news translated from Japanese to English.

    Inquires on this issue should be addressed to:

    
            T. Kondo
            Kashima Space Research Center
            Communications Research Laboratory
            893-1 Hirai, Kashima, Ibaraki 314-0012, Japan
    
            TEL    : +81-299-84-7137
            FAX    : +81-299-84-7194
            e-mail : kondo(AT)nict.go.jp
       
    

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    TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT CENTER NEWS No.11, November, 1997
    International Earth Rotation Service - VLBI Technical Development Center News
    published by
    Communications Research Laboratory, 4-2-1 Nukui-kita, Koganei, Tokyo 184-8795, Japan
    
    VLBI and related activities at the Communications Research Laboratory are available from the home page of the Radio Astronomy Applications Section of the Kashima Space Research Center on the World Wide Web (WWW). The URL to view the home page
    
    

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    Updated on November 20, 1997.
    
    

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