Report on FABRIC Month 7 Demonstration 'eVLBI Fringes with PC-EVN'

Within the framework of the project plan of the FABRIC Joint Research Activity a test was conducted on 20th October 2006 to demonstrate the use of PC-EVN computers for eVLBI. The primary purpose was to demonstrate a working high bitrate (512Mbit/s) system using Commercial of the shelf (COTS) hardware. Amongst other things, PCEVN’s can be used as a test-bed for future research in eVLBI with the JRA, specically for testing new protocols/data formats for eVLBI and new modes of data transfer (i.e. remote recording etc). The demonstration on Oct 20th involved the radio telescopes at Onsala (Sweden) and ] [