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>From: Tim Alberta <address@hidden> >Organization: UCAR/COMET >Keywords: 200104112135.f3BLZnL20960 IDD NNEXRAD GEMPAK Tim, >I guess it was the beginning of the year when I tried the NNEXRAD feed >on our LDM. Seemed to work fine, I used the ucnids decoder with the >"-n" option, and could bring images up in garp. Since the WSI stuff was >still coming in, I turned NNEXRAD off and promptly forgot about it. Now >that the WSI stuff isn't coming through anymore, I can't get the ucnids >program to give me a displayable image, no matter what option I use. You do not need to use any decoder since GEMPAK (from Unidata at least) can display these products directly (as can McIDAS). >Do you have anything over there I can use to decode these images? >Enclosed is a pqact.conf entry from my test LDM, which runs on my HP. >NNEXRAD ^SDUS5. .... ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9])([0-5][0-9]).*/p(...)(...) > PIPE -close /home/comet/alberta/bin/ucnids -n - >/met/rt/images/radar/nids/\5/\4/\4_(\1:yy)(\1:mm)\1_\2\3 Here is the action we use to file the NNEXRAD products: NNEXRAD ^SDUS5. .... ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9])([0-6][0-9]).*/p(...)(...) FILE -close data/gempak/nexrad/NIDS/\6/\5/\5_(\2:yyyy)(\2:mm)\2_\3\4 Tom Yoksas