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6.5 GRT Gain Curves

$\circ$   GRTs to Regional Servers What: Gain as a function of elevation, ideally parametrized as a polynomial.

How: See the files below as examples.

When: Files will be regularly updated.

Where: Files are placed by GRTs on their regional server (§10.2.10). For the EVN these are in the evngains files in the cal sub-directory of the EVN FTP site.
For the VLBA these are available by anonymous FTP from ftp.aoc.nrao.edu (146.88.1.103) in the file pub/vlba_gains.key. For Japanese GRTs these will be available from the Mitaka FTP site (see 10.1). For Australian GRTs these will be available from the ATNF WWW site.



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