From igs.mail at ien.it Tue Feb 24 07:11:00 2004 From: igs.mail at ien.it (IEN Time Frequency Lab) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 16:11:00 +0100 Subject: [IGSMAIL-4853]: IENG: New IGS station in Italy Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.0.20040224135740.00b5d610@mail.intra.ien.it> ****************************************************************************** IGS Electronic Mail 24 Feb 07:15:11 PST 2004 Message Number 4853 ****************************************************************************** Author: Valerio Pettiti, Diego Orgiazzi Dear Colleagues, The Istituto Elettrotecnico Nazionale (IEN) "Galileo Ferraris" (Torino, Italy) is glad to announce a new IGS station designated IENG. This station, located in Torino (Italy) and operated by the Time, Frequency and Electromagnetic Metrology Department of IEN, has been also included in the EUREF Permanent Network (EPN) since February 1st, 2004 (please refer to Message Number 1907 of EUREF Mail). IENG is an Ashtech Z-XII3T "Metronome" receiver with a Dorne Margolin chokering antenna (without radome). The external reference signals (20 MHz and 1pps) for this receiver are both supplied by the UTC(IEN) realization of UTC; the UTC(IEN) national time scale is generated by a frequency steered commercial Cesium standard and is compared on regular basis versus both UTC and the other international time scales using both GPS CV (Common View) and TWSTFT (Two Way Satellite Time and Frequency Transfer) techniques. In addition, the IEN Time and Frequency laboratory is currently deep involved in the Galileo System Test Bed V1 (GSTB V1), the first experimental phase of the Galileo project supported by the European Space Agency. In this frame, a second geodetic receiver (not currently an IGS site), a Javad (JNS) Legacy with timing option, is also operated by IEN as part of the Experimental Precise Timing Station (E-PTS) of the GSTB V1, implemented at IEN in collaboration with Alenia Spazio (Roma, Italy). The Javad receiver is fed by the Experimental Galileo System Time (E-GST) with the aim to support the GSTB V1 experimental activity planned for 2004/2005. The IENG station is providing both daily and hourly data which are available at the BKG IGS regional data centre (BKGI) and at the ASI EPN local data centre, as well as at all IGS Global Data Centers. The complete site log for IENG can be retrieved from the IGS Central Bureau (ftp://igscb.jpl.nasa.gov/igscb/station/log) as well as through the web page dedicated to the site (http://igscb.jpl.nasa.gov/network/site/ieng.html). Best regards, Valerio Pettiti -------------------------------------------------------- Time, Frequency and Electromagnetic Metrology Department Istituto Elettrotecnico Nazionale "G. Ferraris" Strada delle Cacce 91 10135 Torino (Italy) tel +39 011 3919 234 fax +39 011 3919 259 http://www.ien.it