Re: [noaaport] [ldm-users] NWS drops a small bombshell on NOAAPort users this morning

Any chance that level 2 radar data might start coming down the pipe?

Bruce


On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Gilbert Sebenste <
sebenste@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This came out from the National Weather Service early this morning...
> very interesting! This summer, NOAAport is going from 30 mb/sec to 60+
> mb/sec (DVB-S2 can handle bursts up to 100 mb/sec). I don't know where
> the NWS got the funding for this, but this news is significant and
> wonderful! And for those of you who get the NOAAport feed, all you need
> to do is point your receiver (for most of you, that's the Novra box) to
> the new frequency to get it (and get a new ingester box if it's a clunky
> Pentium 4, but otherwise, no other changes need to be made).
>
> EXCEPT...of course....make sure you have the bandwidth to handle
> this! This doubles and, in peak bursts, triples what you are
> seeing now coming across the feed.
>


-- 

Bruce Haynie, NW5S
Electronic Systems Analyst
National Weather Service
Lubbock, TX
Bruce.Haynie@xxxxxxxx
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