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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: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 12:47:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Kevin Tyle <address@hidden> To: Jim Koermer <address@hidden> Subject: Re: Alden ku-band DDPLUS Dead-Again! Yes, looks the same here. Instead of a total outage, though, it looks like the feed is garbled somehow. I'm getting tons of "parity errors/soh errors/etx errors " on bulletins that look to emanate from the DDPLUS feed. My hunch is that when DDPLUS restarted from the NWS this morning, something got screwed up that needs to be reset. The fact that the Alden IDD feed is okay leads me to conclude that it's on Alden's end. I left a voice and email message but given their situation it may take up to several days for things to be fixed. This only seems to intensify their death spiral as the more this goes on, the more they will lose customers and further erode their revenue base. Similar to a couple of weeks ago, the IDS feed is ok. Just another Saturday monitoring the data feeds :) --Kevin Tyle <address@hidden> MESO, Inc. Troy, NY On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, Jim Koermer wrote: > It looks like Alden ku-band DDPLUS died around 09/0445Z. This was the > same time that NWS seemed to be having problems, since data (mainly > surface) for several hours after that time seemed to be a bit light on > both NOAAPORT and IDD. However, those systems seemed to come back to > normal, but who knows about Alden. We are seriously thinking about > dropping our service, but that may be a moot point given the > circumstances. > > Jim > -- > James P. Koermer E-Mail: address@hidden > Professor of Meteorology Office Phone: (603)535-2574 > Natural Science Department Office Fax: (603)535-2723 > Plymouth State College WWW: http://vortex.plymouth.edu/ > Plymouth, NH 03264 >