[GEMPAK #ISX-820206]: Re: 20060621: GOES-10 > GOES-11

Mike,

The $GEMTBL/sat/imgtyp.tbl file of your 2 year old version needs the GOES11 
entries
from the more recent versions. That should be all that is needed to display the 
images.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support



> Hi Mike,
> 
> re: GEOS-11 becoming the operational GOES-West
> 
> > Thanks Tom,
> 
> No worries.  I guess I wasn't thinking hard enough about the impact on the 
> switch
> from GOES-10 to GOES-11 (the McIDAS community has not seemed to have any 
> hiccups :-)
> 
> > I was hoping to be able to just make a link from GOES-10 to GOES-11 on my
> > system, but older versions of GEMPAK do not seem to recognize or be able to
> > display the GOES-11 files. In other words, the new GEMPAK5.9.2sees the
> > GOES-11 directory and can display the image, while GEMPAK5.7 sees the
> > directory, but can not display the image. And as a cross check I copied
> > some of the images from GOES-11 to GOES-10 dir to see if GARP could plot
> > them, but nope.
> 
> I will let Chiz address this.  There may be something simple you can do like
> upgrade a table somewhere.
> 
> > So I guess I will need to upgrade GEMPAK on my weather image processor,
> > which is more complicated than it sounds because of the hundreds of little
> > scripts that will need to be tested, etc. Am I missing some other easier
> > way out of this pickle?  :-)
> 
> Upgrades are a pain, of course, but they are important to keep your processing
> capabilities up to date.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Tom
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Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: ISX-820206
Department: Support GEMPAK
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed