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=============================================================================== 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 23:37:12 -0500 (CDT) From: "Robert R. Mullenax" <address@hidden> To: Michael W Dross <address@hidden> Subject: Re: McIDAS Data The problem I see is that those of us with only T1 conections (we can't be the only ones) would be overloaded with the amount of data. 1km imagery every 15 minutes would be great, but I don't believe we can handle it. It took three years to get upgraded to a T1, I shudder to think about how long it would take to convince the various entities to upgrade us to a T3, Robert Mullenax On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Michael W Dross wrote: > > > 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 > >