Due to the current gap in continued funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the NSF Unidata Program Center has temporarily paused most operations. See NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations for details.
Due to the current gap in continued funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the NSF Unidata Program Center has temporarily paused most operations. See NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations for details.
Noaaporters / ldmers, I have alarms setup so that if signal lock or data lock is lost for '1 second' I receive an alert. These alerts have been sent off and on over the last few days, and then from last night through this afternoon fairly consistently. Data in most instances is streaming through, but I am still obviously concerned. As most of you know I have chart compilations from various sources that share their noaaport information here: http://wn.hamweather.net/ If you look closely under "Carrier to Noise," the big (and beautiful!) chart Stonie Cooper provides, shows that even with his massive dish, he is showing missing frames with burps in his ratio. Note other sources such as Gary Shuford in New Orleans, Jose Nieves in Puerto Rico, and mine at the top also show problems. Under signal strength, notice that Jose, Gary, and myself all three are showing a loss of signal. I checked spaceweather.com so solar flares don't seem to be an issue, and had one of our techs go up and "kick the dish," but the problems still persist. What's really odd is that overall, data still seems to flow though there is a burp in the signal. Is it possibly an uplink issue somehow due to sandy, or an issue with the sat itself? I know sniffing the signal every 'second' is a bit much, but I've been doing it for years and have never seen anything like this before. Cheers, --patrick ------------------------ Patrick L. Francis VP R&D Media Logic Group / HAMWeather http://www.medialogicgroup.com/ https://www.facebook.com/wxprofessor
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