Contents

• Editorial
• Installation of the #1 Dual-channel Receiver at the 30-m Telescope.
  • Main technical features
  • RF performance
  • Stability
  • Alignment, focus, efficiencies
  • Problems, solutions
    • Hold time of the dewar
    • MP motor runaway
    • Acquisition software
  • Perspectives
  • Status of the receiver cabin upgrade
• Observations with DIABOLO at the 30m telescope
• Call for Observing Proposals on the 30-m Telescope
  • Summary
  • What is new ?
  • Applications
  • Reminders
  • Observing time estimates
  • Service observing
  • Remote observing
  • Technical Information about the 30m Telescope
    • Heterodyne Receivers
      • The new generation receivers A100 and A230
      • The new generation receivers B100 and B230
      • 2mm Receiver
      • 0.8mm Receiver
      • General point about receiver operations
      • Polarimeter
    • The MPIfR Bolometer arrays
    • The 2mm bolometer
    • Efficiencies and error beam
    • Backends
    • Pointing / Focusing
    • Wobbling Secondary
• References
• Call for Observing Proposals on the Plateau de Bure Interferometer
  • Backup Projects for the May-Nov. 1998 period
  • Proposal category
  • Configurations
  • Receivers
  • 1.3mm band observations
  • Atmospheric phase compensation
  • Signal to Noise
  • Coordinates and Velocities
  • Correlator
  • 40 KHz resolution
  • Sun Avoidance
  • Mosaics
  • Data reduction
  • Local contact
  • Technical pre-screening
  • Non-standard observations
• Scientific results
  • KINEMATICS OF THE GAS IN A BARRED GALAXY: DO STRONG SHOCKS INHIBIT STAR FORMATION?
  • Interstellar isotope ratios from mm-wave molecular absorption spectra
• New Preprints
• Vacant Position