Short: Our NOAAport system will be down either tomorrow or Wednesday for
cable replacement. Due to IDD backup, I expect no problems. However, if
you see any, drop me an email.
Long: We are tentatively planning either tomorrow or Wednesday to replace
our long, 15+ year old coax cable between our ingest receiver/server and
the dish, to our NOAAPort system. We are replacing it with RG-11
cable instead of RG-6, for considerably improved performance and to
ensure reliable, stable reception. This is the third of four phases of
our NOAAport replacement and upgrade; the second was a new receiver,
installed last month, to handle the future DVB-S2 and the current DVB-S
modulated broadcast. The final phase will be in March 2011, when NOAAport
changes frequencies, and the modulation scheme changes from DVB-S to
DVB-S2; any dish alignments needed will be done at that time as well.
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Gilbert Sebenste ********
(My opinions only!) ******
Staff Meteorologist, Northern Illinois University ****
E-mail: sebenste@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ***
web: http://weather.admin.niu.edu **
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