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>From: Mike Trexler <address@hidden> >Organization: NCSU >Keywords: 200208141743.g7EHhEK21033 IDD Mike, >I have two questions for you.... > >1. I requested access to the canadian gem a couple weeks ago >and have since been in touch with Dov who has allowed my feed. >My question is what should my request line look like in my >ldmd.conf? Here is what we are using to ingest GEM data from CMC on a machine here at the UPC: # # GEM data: (aka dns2.cmc.ec.gc.ca) # request CMC "CMC_GEM_reg_.*" ftp.cmc.ec.gc.ca You may want to change this for your own use. >All Dov has provided me is his machine name? What is the product stream name? All LDM feed types are listed in: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/ldm/feedtypes/index.html From this page, you can see that equivalent feed types for GEM data are: GEM, CMC, FT20. >and then do I just specify ".*"? What you want to ingest from any IDD stream is ultimately up to you. I would start using the ".*" pattern and then look through what you get and decide if you want to request less. >2. I'm confused about the nexrad level III products. Maybe I'm >stupid, because I did read the webpage about this, but still have >questions. Here's what I want to do...simply get the 1 km >mosaic that Chiz creates and injects in the idd. The 1 km composite of base reflectivities at tilt 1 are included in the FNEXRAD feed. They are sent with headers that look like: rad/NEXRCOMP/1km/n0r_20020814_2005 >This is in Gini format, right? Yes. >Can you tell me exactly what I need to specify >to start bringing this in? A request line that looks like the following will work: request FNEXRAD "^rad/NEXRCOMP/1km" <the upstream host you want to feed from> You need to: o replace the last bit above with the machine you are requesting the feed from o add an action to your LDM's pqact.conf file to do something with the products when they are received. >thanks for everything, You are welcome. Tom Yoksas