IVS CRL- Technology Development Center News No.16

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

June, 2000

CONTENTS

• Overview of the 16th TDC Meeting (M. Sekido)
• Technical Reports
  • VLBI Standard Interface (VSI) Meeting Report (Nakajima et al.)
  • The Facility of Tsukuba 32-m VLBI Station (Takashima et al.)
  • Geodetic VLBI Observations Using the Giga-bit VLBI System (Koyama et al.)
  • Optical Linked VLBI in Japan (Nakajima et al.)
  • Portable Cryogenic Low Noise Amplifier Evaluation (Okubo et al.)
  • S2 Recorder Installed at Kashima 34 m VLBI Station (M. Sekido)
• Important Announcement
  • Decision Concerning the Key Stone Project (T. Yoshino)
• - New Book - New Book -
  • Very Long Baseline Interferometer
  • Astrometry of Fundamental Catalogues -- the Evolution from Optical to Radio Reference Frames

VLBI Technology Development Center (TDC) at CRL is supposed

1) to develop new observation techniques and new systems for advanced Earth's rotation observations by VLBI and other space techniques,
2) to promote research in Earth rotation using VLBI,
3) to distribute new VLBI technology,
4) to contribute the standardization of VLBI interface, and
5) to deploy the real-time VLBI technique.

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. Inquires on this issue should be addressed to