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The following messages were transmitted on NOAAport 733 NOUS71 KNCF 302036 ADANCF ATTN: ALL AWIPS SITES WE ARE CURRENTLY EXPERIENCING PROBLEMS WITH SURFACE METAR REPORTS ON AWIPS. THIS HAS BEEN OCCURRING SINCE AROUND 2000Z. NCF AND GATEWAY ARE INVESTIGATING THE PROBLEM. LEFKOF/ NCF OPERATIONS 289 NOUS71 KNCF 302112 ADANCF WE ARE STILL EXPERIENCING PROBLEMS WITH METAR DATA FROM THE GATEWAY. GATEWAY ENGINEERS ARE WORKING THE PROBLEM. THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE. LEFKOF/ NCF OPERATIONS Steve Chiswell Unidata User Support On Mon, 30 Aug 1999 address@hidden wrote: > Hi, > > I've noticed in the past couple of hours that most of the US > hourly METAR data have ceased coming in via our Alden > satellite feed. I've checked some other sites and it looks > like the data *is* being sent via NOAAPORT but not by FOS. > Specifically, none of the SAUS** KWBC bulletins have come > in since around 2000 UTC today on the FOS feed. I suspect that > other bulletins may be missing too, but this is the most > obvious one. > > Just wondering if any other non NOAAPORT/Unidata-feed people > have noticed this too. I've checked one other site that gets data > via FOS and see the same thing. > > Thanks, > > Kevin Tyle <address@hidden> > MESO, Inc. > >