Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 15:07:05 +0200 (CEST) From: Arpad Szomoru To: evntech@jb.man.ac.uk Subject: EVNtech: first e-light Hh Hi all. We are very pleased to announce that last Monday Hartebeesthoek joined the e-EVN. A new connection via Johannesburg and London was provided on the 1st, tested on the 2nd and used in an e-VLBI demo on the 5th of May. The demo was held during the visit to Hh of a delegation of high-ranked EC-officials, who were duly impressed. Although we were informed that the bandwidth limit would be 50 Mbps, the tests showed that 64 could be sustained, and even (for a very short time) 128 Mbps. However, for the demo we stuck to 32 Mbps. Other participating telescopes were Mc, Tr, On, Cm, Jb and Ar. For a very short time (few minutes) we actually did get a fringe between Hh and Ar (second appended photo). Most of the time we alternated between sources that could be observed by either Hh or Ar + the European telescopes. Special thanks go to Andrew Alston of TENET and Geoff Daniell and Christiaan Kuun from the Meraka Institute, CSIR, for setting up a working connection in very little time. Regards, Arpad ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Arpad Szomoru, Head Technical Operations and R&D, JIVE Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe tel. +31521596509/596500 PO Box 2 mob. +31650502091 7990 AA Dwingeloo fax +31521597332 The Netherlands szomoru@jive.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------------