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Re: Alden update...

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  • Subject: Re: Alden update...
  • Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 11:07:23 -0400 (EDT)
Well, it's obvious that what Alden CEO Doyle relayed to me earlier this
month was a bunch of hooey.  The fact that he, nor anyone else in
management, never personally communicated to this forum pretty much says
it all.

Our short term solution is to download preprocessed DIFAX maps in GIF,
TIFF, or Postcript format from one of several sites, but how are these
sites obtaining the source data?  Unisys Ku-band? What about an LDM
solution similar to all the other products?  Is there a restriction that
doesn't allow this data to be added to the IDD feed in g3 or other format?
I know Dan V. was looking into a possible LDM solution via Unisys, but
what hurdles would have to be jumped to just get this onto the standard
feed, just like HDS, IDS|DDPLUS, and the others?  

Regards,

Chris

On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Gilbert Sebenste wrote:

> Thanks to an iffy modem connection here, that got sent out without any
> proofreading. Well, it wasn't that bad. But "Sheriff" is how it is
> correctly spelled. Also, I didn't tack on the following...
> 
> If Unidata is willing to drop the Alden contract (actually, it may be
> the other way around now!), I would be willing to pay for DiFAX, coming
> through the LDM, from Unisys.
> 
> You know, I gotta say this. No offense to anyone, but DiFAX simply has the
> clearest, most readable upper air maps I've ever used. I'm a WXP junkie,
> and IMO WXP blows most everything else out of the water...except for this.
> And Gempak, AWIPS, Digital Atmosphere...they're good, but not great for
> plotting upper air analysis maps. Maybe it's the satellite winds or the
> ACARS data. I dunno. I just know I want them until they sadly die away.
> 
> I will save my rant against a completely paperless office for another
> day. But although I have stopped printing out most maps from DiFAX, the
> analysis maps get read by me every weekday. And printed out.
> 
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