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From: Marcelo Carvalho dos Santos 
To: jimr@Maia.usno.navy.mil, cthomas@bipm.fr
Subject: IGS/BIPM PILOT PROJECT
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Dear Jim and Claudine

We would like to bring to your consideration the fact that we have a GPS
permanent station close by our Space Geodesy Lab, on campus of the UFPR.
This GPS station (site "Curitiba", four-digit "PARA") is one of the
geodetic markers of the SIRGAS network. It is also part of the RBMC
network (the Brazilian Active Control System). 
We have been studying a possible connection to a Cesium clock operating in
another lab on campus (not made yet).

Therefore, in a spirit of collaboration, we could, in principle, make
available for this pilot project dual-frequency GPS data (Trimble 4000
SSi), possibly attached with the atomic clock.  

Kindest regards,

Marcelo
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