Green Bank Coordination Meeting Summary

for Monday, Oct 16, 2006

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Targets for 2006
DowDateDescriptionLocationPerson
Thu Jul 13-Oct 30 Upgrade to 45' Control System (Antenna Shutdown) 45-Ft.Telescope Weadon
Thu Oct 12 Controlled Deer Hunt . Holstine
. Oct 12 North Carolina State University, Katrin Baker 40-Ft. Telescope Heatherly
Fri Oct 13- 14 Boy Scout Troop 22 40-Ft. Telescope Heatherly
. Oct 13 Controlled Deer Hunt . Holstine
Thu Oct 19 Lynchburg College, Neal Sumerlin 40-Ft. Telescope Heatherly
Fri Oct 20 FSC, Debra Burgess 40-Ft. Telescope Heatherly
. Oct 20 2006 Jansky Lecture, Frank J. Low (postponed) Sci. Cntr. Aud. Prestage
Fri Oct 27- 28 Trinity Area School District, Janice Kuhn 40-Ft. Telescope Heatherly
Thu Nov 2 Science Bowl 2006 J. L. Aud. Holstine
Fri Nov 10 NRAO Holiday - Veteran's Day (observed) . .
Thu Nov 16 West Stanly High School, Steven Teeter 40-Ft. Telescope Heatherly
Mon Nov 20 Agree dates and proposals for dynamic scheduling trial period . Maddalena
Thu Nov 23 NRAO Holiday - Thanksgiving . .
. Nov 23 Shutdown old Jansky Lab network (for 1 hour) J. Lab C. Clark
Fri Nov 24 NRAO Holiday - Day after Thanksgiving . .
Tue Dec 5 Proposal Selection Committee Meets Rm. 137 Bignell
Mon Dec 11 Hardware timelines impacting astronomy scheduling complete . O'Neil
Mon Dec 25 NRAO Holiday - Christmas Day . .
Tue Dec 26 NRAO Holiday - Christmas (floating holiday) . .
Notes: JL-Jansky Lab, JL Aud - JL Auditorium, NJL-New addition to the Jansky Lab, NCR - New Conference Room, TC - Tour Center, RA - Recreation Area, Sci. Ctr. - Science Center [Meeting regularly scheduled for 11:45 am in Rm. 137]
Targets for 2007
DowDateDescriptionLocationPerson
Fri Jan 5 Text for 07B call for proposals ready . Maddalena/Bignell
. Jan 5 Start scheduling of 07B trimester . Bignell
Notes: JL-Jansky Lab, JL Aud - JL Auditorium, NJL-New addition to the Jansky Lab, NCR - New Conference Room, TC - Tour Center, RA - Recreation Area, Sci. Ctr. - Science Center [Meeting regularly scheduled for 11:45 am in Rm. 137]
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Open Positions
Division, PositionLocBudgetReq #PostingStartNameStatus
Facilities Engineer GB GB 2324 05/04/06 . . .
Scientific Associate II GB GB 2325 05/11/06 12/04/06 Jules Harnett .
Scientific Associate II GB GB 2325 05/11/06 12/01/06 Paul Ruffle .
Software - Engineer GB GB GB-2331 . 10/16/2006 Mike McCarty .
() - Target date; Status: A-Awating approval, Pt-Part time, Tr-Transfer, Te-Temporary, F-Temporarily frozen, I-Interviewing
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GBT Receivers
Receiver (GHz)BandLocationPolarization# BeamsTrec(k)Tsys(k)InstalledAvailable
.290 - .395 340 Prime F. Linear/Circular 1 14 70 . .
.385 - .520 450 Prime F. Linear/Circular 1 . 57 . .
.510 - .690 600 Prime F. Linear/Circular 1 . 48 . .
.680 - .920 800 Prime F. Linear/Circular 1 . 24.5 . .
.910 - 1.23 PF2 Prime F. Linear/Circular 1 . 21.9 Storage .
1.15 - 1.73 L Greg. Linear/Circular 1 6 20 . .
1.73 - 2.60 S Greg. Linear/Circular 1 8 - 12 24 . .
3.95 - 5.85 C Greg. Linear/Circular 1 12 25 Dev .
8.00 - 10.1 X Greg. Circular 1 13 21 - 27 . .
12.00 - 15.4 Ku Greg. Circular 2 14 24 - 30 Storage .
18.00 - 22.4 K Greg. Circular 2 19 38 . .
22.00 - 26.50 K Greg. Circular 2 23 42 . .
26.00 - 40.00 Ka Greg. Circular 2 20 35 Repair .
40.00 - 52.00 Q Greg. Circular 2 30 35 - 160 Repair .
68.00 - 92.00 W Greg. Linear 2 70 . Dev E(01/01/07)
90.00 - 115.00 W Greg. . . . . Hold .
Holography . Greg . . . . Storage .
80.0 - 100.0 Penn Bol Greg . . 0.5 mJy/sqrt(t) . . .
Notes: Status - Blank => rcvr on GBT and operational; Dev => rcvr in development; Hold => rcvr planned but development not yet started; Repair => rcvr in shop for repairs or modification; Storage => reveiver ready for use but currently in storage Date - A => astronomy available date; E => Engineering available date; N => needed date * => requires at least three weeks to install on telescope from storage .
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