To: igsmail@igscb.jpl.nasa.gov From: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Prieto_Mor=EDn_Juan_Francisco?=" Date: 20 Oct 2000 10:02:00 +0200 Subject: [IGSMAIL-3065]: New site at Yebes, Spain (YEBE) Envelope-ID: JA8AAAAAAGqgyQABYQAIauQLwb9U@mfom.es Message-Id: Disposition-Notification-To: jfprieto@mfom.es Sender: owner-igsmail Precedence: bulk ****************************************************************************** IGS Electronic Mail 20 Oct 01:02:47 PDT 2000 Message Number 3065 ****************************************************************************** Author: Juan Prieto-Morin (SPG IGN-E) Dear Colleagues, A new site has been installed at the Radio Astronomy Observatory of Yebes, Spain. The site installation is a joint project of the Servicio de Programas Geodesicos and the Centro Astronomico de Yebes, both branches of the Instituto Geografico Nacional of Spain. The Centro Astronomico de Yebes has great experience in VLBI techniques, with its 14m antenna ant is now mounting a new 40m antenna. The Servicio de Programas Geodesicos acts as the Operational Center for this new station, as well as all GPS permanent stations of the national network operated by the Instituto Geografico Nacional of Spain. An important detail is that the external frequency standard is provided by a hydrogen maser, which is also the main reference for the radio astronomical observations at this site. Then antenna is mounted on a 1m high concrete pillar constructed for this purpose at the top of the roof of the observatory main building. The receiver is housed in a special room just below the antenna. Both antennas, VLBI and GPS, have been tied up. Data are available since May 19, 1999, but the station became operational with its final configuration on June 22, 2000. Since Oct 1, 2000, daily files are transferred to BKG on routine submissions. Also near real time data are transferred to BKG since Oct 10, 2000, on a regular basis. The site information form has been submitted to IGS CB Site: Yebes, Spain Site ID: YEBE Type of receiver: TRIMBLE 4000SSi Antenna: TRM29659.00 (DORNE MARGOLIN TRIM) Height: 0.0000 m (bottom of chokering) Regards, Juan F. Prieto-Morin IGN-E ERGPS Permanent Stations Team ---------------------------------------------------------------- Juan F. Prieto-Morin Geodetic Program Service Instituto Geografico Nacional C/ General Ibanez Ibero, 3 E-28003 Madrid, Spain e-mail: jfprieto@mfom.es Phone : +34 915 979 440 Fax : +33 915 979 758 ---------------------------------------------------------------- ******************************************************************************