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On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Peter Neilley wrote: > > > I don't know Tenny Lindholm. The WSI contact change has been made to > > Richard Chinman so we get the frequency change notices. Is this ok with > > you. > > > > Yea, Tenny is over here. I suspect that he is RAP's point of contact > with WSI for our PilotBrief system that we have (I'll confirm that once he's > in). WSI should have > two contacts, one for the PilotBrief system and one for the NIDS > receiver. Chinman is as good as any for the NIDS contact. In the mean time, > I'll ask Tenny to forward to me any messages he gets from WSI and I'll > distribute them as appropriate. Peter, Mike Schmidt did speculate that RAP might have another type of WSI system, the reason for Tenny as the contact. > > > Richard, do you think we will keep the WSI NIDS system once > NOAAPORT starts broadcasting NIDS data? I believe in the beginning of the NIDS over NOAAport, there will be some missing products, not sure of what products or why. It could just be a start up issue. The information is not concrete, Linda Miller is keeping up with the latest. Robb, does Unidata have any > plans to package a NIDS decoder/decompressor in the LDM to take advantage > of NOAAPORT NIDS products? > Noop, the decoder will not be included into the LDM but it will be available similar to the Unidata decoders package. I think PRC was leaning towards using the GRIB2 as the compressor when I talked to them at the AMS but PRC was just in the testing phase. Robb... > Peter > =============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ===============================================================================