Effelsberg station report
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* A dBBC and Mark5B have been installed in the Faraday room. Placing this in the
Faraday room will avoid interference to other observations, caused for example by
10GE network equipment. It is now fully connected and zero baseline test against
the Mk4 and VLBA terminal are under way.

* A NRAO RDBE and upgrade kits for two Mark5C units are ordered.

* A 10GE switch was bought to connect the two Mark5C to the dBBC and the RDBE.

* In August/September a new 18/21cm prime focus receiver was installed. Tsys is
about 25 K. The receiver was successfully used during e-VLBI observations and in
EVN Session 3. It shares one prime focus box with three other receivers (1.0cm,
1.9cm, and a receiver to do holography at 11.7 GHz). Although those are not used
for VLBI it increases our flexibility to schedule different projects including VLBI
observations.