Radar Coded Messages

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• Subject: Radar Coded Messages
• From: Tim Alberta <alberta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 17:43:26 -0700

Hi,

Does anyone know why, at 00Z, the radar coded message (MDRadar), instead
of providing the 00Z image, retransmits the 23Z image?  And why the real
00Z image never appears?  I think the 01 and 02Z RCMs are also absent
most of the time, but what we're really looking for is 00Z.

This is what I see on ldmwatch:

Oct 29 23:06:27...MCIDAS 000  pnga2area Q1 U3 204 GRAPHICS UNKBAND 5km
20011029 2259

at 2306Z, and 

Oct 30 00:06:15...MCIDAS 000  pnga2area Q1 U3 205 GRAPHICS UNKBAND 5km
20011029 2259

at 0006Z.

My pqact.conf entry looks like

MCIDAS  ^pnga2area Q. (..) (.. )        FILE    -close  /tmp/rawarea.0\2
MCIDAS  ^pnga2area Q. (..) (.. )        EXEC    /pub/ldm/bin2/mvarea1.pl -l
/tmp/rawarea.0\2
         
MCIDAS  ^pnga2area Q. (..) (... )       FILE    -close  /tmp/rawarea.\2
MCIDAS  ^pnga2area Q. (..) (... )       EXEC    /pub/ldm/bin2/mvarea1.pl -l
/tmp/rawarea.\2

and to verify, gif images of the two products (23Z and 00Z) are
identical. 

Any insight would be appreciated!

Thanks,

Tim Alberta

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