Jerry, Is the sunshine machine the actual NP ingest machine? If it is not then the request line to the ingest machine should contain a filter so the radar and other unwanted products don't get into the data stream. Here's an example of the filter. request WMO "(^[^S]|^S[^D]|^SD..[^59]|^SD..9[^7])" sunshine.ssec.wisc.edu Of course sunshine would be replaced with the name of the ingest machine. Robb... =============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ===============================================================================