=============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ =============================================================================== ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 17:52:10 -0400 From: Michael W Dross <address@hidden> To: address@hidden Subject: McIDAS Data With the tremendous amount of satellite imagery now available on NOAAPORT has anyone discussed the possiblity of replacing the MCIDAS satellite imagery with the GINI NOAAPORT data? I suspect that McIDAS can't handle GINI, I belive GEMPAK can and I know WXP can. It might be a more cost effective solution and the NCF does have 24/7 coverage which in theory should provide a reliable data stream 24/7. My $0.02 Mike Dross