1. Where is the station located?
    The Herat station is at 34 21 04.4N and 62 13 03.2E per the uncorrected position from the receiver.  
2. Is the station currently operating, or planned? If planned, when is the projected date it will become operational? 
    It was turned on 1 October 2008.  We hope to have it connected to the internet by the end of the next week.   
3. What agencies are responsible for installing, managing, operating, and maintaining the station? 
    We are responsible until we get everything operational in the entire CORS network and then the AGCHO will be the primary.
4. What is the expected operational lifetime of the station? How secure is the funding? 
    The lifetime is indefinite.  Funding this year is firm, next year and remaining years I can't promise as it will be turned over to AGCHO but AGCHO promises to put it in their budget to maintain it.  NGA will have a representative here for quite a while until everything stabilizes.
5. Will the station replace an existing IGS station? If so, what is the scheduled date of decommissioning? Does the new station offer more capability than the old one? 
    The station is new and therefore not replacing an existing one. 
6. Does/will the station meet all of the strictly required IGS site guidelines (http://igscb.jpl.nasa.gov/network/guidelines/guidelines.ht ml)? 
    We are planning to meet all the requirements of the IGS guidelines.  The data will also be posted on the NGS website through help by Giovanni Sella.
7. What is the data delivery schedule?
    We can deliver at any interval.  We will try to do 1 hour. 
8. Can you set the receiver for "all in view" tracking (including tracking of satellites set unhealthy)? 
    Yes, I believe it can be set to "all in view." 
9. Are there currently operating IGS stations within 1000km? Approximately how many? Does this site offer any capabilities the others do not? 
    The nearest other IGS station is KIT3 in Uzbekistan which is approximately 550 kilometers distant, however it does not provide GLONASS.  We are using Leica GRX1200GG receivers with Drone Margolin Choke Ring antennas for the two planned site for IGS.
10. What IGS product or project will this site benefit, based on its location, instrumentation, and latency? 
     Crustal dynamics, reference network. 
11. Is this station intended to tie a national datum to the ITRF? 
     A national datum can be tied to the ITRF in the future.  We are training the AGCHO personnel to use GPS methods to upgrade all their national networks.
12. Is there a web page associated with this site (please specify)? If not, please include a site photo or two with this application. 
     AGCHO does have a website but it is under construction. 
13. Is data available on a public server (please specify)? 
     Data will be available on the NGS server plus plans are underway to make it accessible from AGCHO as well.