Imaging and Calibration Group

Minutes for meeting Tuesday, 21 Nov 2000 at 4:00pm EDT.

Date: 21 Nov 2000

Time: 4:00 pm EST (2:00 pm Socorro, 2:00 pm Tucson)

Phone: (804)296-7082 (CV SoundStation Premier Conference phone).

Past ImCal minutes, etc on MMA Imaging and Calibration Division Page

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Agenda

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News -- Wootten

ASAC. The ASAC minutes are available.

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Site - Radford, Butler

My notes on the meeting with Tony Readhead are here . Simon and Bryan can report on the IAU Sympsoium on site testing.

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Report - Wootten

Another monthly report is available.

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Configurations

New results for intermediate configurations have been obtained by Steven Heddle. See them at Steven's Lair. Al's minutes of the teleconference are available .

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Action Items 1 Aug2000

DECISION: Configurations--where are we? Next phone meeting plans...ACA/THzA?

DECISION: Implementation of 183 GHz WVR?

DECISION: Are the specs for a nutating secondary correct?

DECISION: What is the total power specification on the ALMA?

DECISION: What is the effect of 1/f noise in the HEMT amplifiers of SIS receivers upon our ability to combine total power and interferometric images into a faithful representation of the sky?

Year 2000

January	February	March	April
May	June	July	August
September	October	November	December

October 13

ACC Meeting

Paris, France

Nov 6-9	ALMA Photonics/Receiver	Tokyo, Japan
Nov 6	ALMA SSR Meeting	Teleconference
Nov, 13	ALMA SAC Meeting	Teleconference
Nov 15-16	Vertex Antenna CDR	Duisburg, Germany
Nov 28-29	EIE Antenna PDR	Venice, Italy

Dec 8

Project Book Frozen

Executive Fiat

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Travel

Butler

oct 22-29 | pasadena (annual dps meeting)

nov 3-7 | CV (readhead meeting)

nov 12-19 | marrakech, morocco (IAU site testing meeting)

Radford

nov 5-7 | CV (readhead meeting) ------