1. Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy 1 ASTRON is part of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) SKA AA-Mid Progress Meeting Johan Pragt 13-12-2011

2. 2 SKA AA-Mid Progress Meeting Johan Pragt, 13-12-2011

3. Project SKA AA-Mid  ASTRON resources mid2010–mid2013: 30 fte (SKA-NN)  OPAR resources same period about: 10 fte (tbv)  Hardware ASTRON >1.5 Meuro (SKA-NN)  Milestones:  First dualpol proto: Q3 2011 (about done)  Dualpol tile(s) connected to test-station: Q2 2012  Dualpol next step connected to test-station:Q2 2013  goal full on site station: 2016. The project “SKA Noord-Nederland” is collaboration between ASTRON, Major, Neways, Isiterra and S&T. SKA-NN is supported by subsidies from the EC/EFRO program and the Samenwerkingsverband Noord-Nederland (SNN) Koers Noord program, and from the Province of Drenthe and Groningen.

4. Goal of the meeting  Share information on technical progress  Share / define AA-mid plan, cooperation Discussion within AA-mid groups and show the technical status and plans and wishes for near future. progress meeting on AA-mid including next steps. 4

5. Agenda AA-mid progress meeting  8:30 Observatoire de Paris, Nançay: BFC, LNA, Embrace progress and near future plans (Stephane Bosse, Steve Torchinsky)  9:15 Univ. of Manchester: ORA Technical progress, near future plans (Tony Brown (David Zhang))  10:00 Break  10:30 ASTRON: Dual polarization design, thermal/environmental study, Embrace progress: (Dion Kant, Pieter Benthem, Marco Drost)  11:30 Management issues: (Johan Pragt, Dion Kant)  dCoDR (draft) outcome  Overall plan, global timeline, are we on track?  Cooperation between teams, AA-low relations  Process how to trade-off antenna design  12:15 AOB, Closure 5

6. Management Issues  dCoDR (draft) outcome  Overall planglobal timeline, are we on track? How to trade-off antenna designs  Cooperation Active/Re-active contact, Regular telecons?  AA-low relations The schedules seems to match, Beside backend, is there more to share? 6

7. dCoDR outcome  See pdf with first reaction  Is not the official reply from SPDO  Good summary of items to work on 7

8. Overall plan  Plans presented at delta Concept Design Review (dCoDR)  global timeline, are we on track?  How to trade-off antenna designs 8

9. Cooperation  Cooperation Active/Re-active contact, Regular telecons? Progress meetings, Reviews, Decisions to schedule  AA-low relations The schedules seems to match, Beside backend, is there more to share? 9

10. 10 Any Other Business??  ??