[IGSMAIL-3065]: New site at Yebes, Spain (YEBE)

[Prieto Morín Juan Francisco]

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IGS Electronic Mail      20 Oct 01:02:47 PDT 2000      Message Number 3065
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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

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 Juan F. Prieto-Morin
 Geodetic Program Service
 Instituto Geografico Nacional
 C/ General Ibanez Ibero, 3
 E-28003 Madrid, Spain

 e-mail: jfprieto at mfom.es
 Phone : +34 915 979 440
 Fax   : +33 915 979 758
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