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[noaaport] Weak NOAAport signal today

Hello everyone,

My 3.7 meter dish is struggling some to pick up the NOAAPort signal
today. I use a Novra S75+ (latest firmware patch), a NORSAT 3120 LNB, and using the Novramon software from Jose Nieves, I see this after running it for about an hour: 

      Frequency: 1193.500000
     SymbolRate: 6.349000
       LNBFault: ok
     SignalLock: on
       DataLock: on
SignalStrength%: 77
           VBER: 0.00e+00
         Errors: 1621
      ErrorRate: 0
DemodulatorGain: 78
  NoiseEstimate: 11
   DataSyncLoss: 0
    ClockOffset: 33
 FrequencyError: -1
It's never a good thing when the Demod gain is higher than the signal strength. I like to see a ClockOffset of 30 or less for excellent reception. Wondering if it was my system, I logged into the College of DuPage's NOAAport receiver. They also use the same LNB and S75+ wih the latest firmware, but they have a 3.0 meter dish. 

 Frequency              1193.500000
 Symbol Rate            6.349000
 VBER                   1.6539e-02
 Viterbi Rate           7
 LNB Power              ON
 Polarization           1
 Band                   0
 Long Line              1
 Hi Voltage Mode        1
 Signal Strength        75
 DemodGain              59
 C/N                    100.000000
 Signal Lock            on
 Data Lock              on
 Uncorrectables         127
 Noise Estimate         13
 Clock Offset           98
 Frequency Error        0
 ADC Midpoint Crossing  22
 ADC Clipping Count     255
 Digital Gain           0
 Clamping Count         16
With this latest firmware update of the S75+, the largest error rate you can have is indeed 1.6539e-02. And, doing an "ldmadmin watch", not surprisingly, yields ZERO products from them. 

So, anyone know what's going on? As they say, "it isn't us"....

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Gilbert Sebenste                                                     ********
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Staff Meteorologist, Northern Illinois University                      ****
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