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19990723: McIDAS data

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  • Subject: 19990723: McIDAS data
  • Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 15:30:38 -0600
>From: Christian Page <address@hidden>
>Organization: Universite du Quebec a Montreal
>Keywords: 199907231902.NAA00428 Unidata-Wisconsin

Christian,

>My feed source site is : cirrus.lsc.vsc.edu. I wanted to setup so that I
>receive some McIDAS data, so I set :
>
>request UNIDATA|MCIDAS|FSL2 ".*" cirrus.lsc.vsc.edu
>
>in ldmd.conf

This looks correct.

>Then, in pqact.conf :
>
>#### Unidata-Wisconsin channel "text" files (i.e. NOT of type AREA, GRID or MD)
>#
>MCIDAS  ^(LWFILE) (UNIDATAS) .* DIALPROD=(..)
>        PIPE    -close
>        ldm-mcidas/bin/lwfile -d /io/ldm/data/mcidas -v
>
>####         Unidata-Wisconsin channel point source (MD) files
>#
>MCIDAS  ^(LWTMD2 .*)
>        PIPE    -close
>        ldm-mcidas/bin/lwtmd2 -d /io/ldm/data/mcidas -v
>
>I don't receive any of these products. What could be wrong in my setup?

It seems that you somehow missed the announcements that all non-imagery
products were removed from the Unidata-Wisconsin datastream on July 1,
1999.  This change had been announced periodically for about a year and
a half and pretty frequently in May and June.

>Thanks a lot again,

The text of the final annoncement is included here:

From address@hidden  Wed Jun 30 13:53:22 1999
Message-Id: <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden, address@hidden,
        address@hidden
cc: address@hidden
Subject: 19990630: Upcoming Unidata-Wisconsin datastream changes (final)
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 13:53:21 -0600
From: Unidata Support <address@hidden>

>From: Unidata User Support <address@hidden>
>Organization: Unidata Program Center
>Keywords: Unidata-Wisconsin MDXX GRID UNIDATAS PROFILER.CDF

Users of Unidata-Wisconsin datastream products:

This is the FINAL reminder that all non-imagery products (e.g. MDXX,
GRID, and TEXT (UNIDATAS and PROFILER.CDF)) will be removed from the
Unidata-Wisconsin datastream on July 1, 1999 (tomorrow!).

McIDAS users who depend on the products being deleted need to switch to
use of McIDAS-XCD generated files as soon as possible.  Users of the
FSL wind profiler data (in PROFILER.CDF) need to switch to use of the
hourly and 6-minute profiler data available in the FSL2 stream
available in the Unidata IDD.

Any site that needs help in getting McIDAS-XCD running should contact
Unidata User Support for assistance.

McIDAS-OS2 Users:

Support for Unidata McIDAS-OS2 will be discontinued on July 31, 1999.

Sites using McIDAS-OS2 should transition to use of McIDAS-X as soon as
possible.  Please contact Unidata User Support for assistance in this
transition.

Please send any/all comments to Unidata User Support at the email
address listed below.


>Christian Page      finger address@hidden => tel. + adresse
>address@hidden    http://www.sca.uqam.ca/
>
>Assistant de recherche / Research Assistant
>Universite du Quebec a Montreal / Universite McGill / McGill Radar

Tom Yoksas