CONT08 – preliminary results
A.	Finkelstein,  E. Skurikhina, S. Smolentsev, I. Rahimov, A. Diyakov
 Institute of Applied Astronomy RAS, Russia
Poster 

Preliminary results of the CONT08 15-day campaign of continuous VLBI-observations carried out in August 2008 are presented. The campaign were organized on the basis of eleven globally distributed VLBI-observatories, two of them being Russian stations of the VLBI-network QUASAR: Svetloe and Zelenchuksksya. Subdiurnal variations of Earth orientation parameters obtained from the analysis of observations were compared with the tidal model and with the results of the previous CONT campaigns. The troposphere parameters were compared with that of derived from the GPS technique.