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Hi Art, re: > I haven't seen anything on DIFAX yet... if you're still working on it, > that's fine. Just want to make sure I'm not mis-configured somehow... Sorry for the unfulfilled expectations! Here is what has happened (that I need to send in a general announcement to ldm-users): - before I sent out the note to ldm-users yesterday, Mike ran the LDM utility 'uldbutil' to see if anyone was REQUESTing DIFAX from our top level IDD relay clusters To our great surprise, there were a number of REQUESTs for DIFAX. We were surprised since there have been no DIFAX/pseudo-DIFAX products sent in the IDD for a LONG time, like 2 years. - we believe that some of the sites REQUESTing DIFAX from our toplevel relay clusters will be inundated by the DIFAX volume increasing from zero to over 8 GB/hr So, we need to contact the LDM/IDD site administrators at those sites to get them to either remove their DIFAX REQUEST, or to make sure that they are fully aware of the impending data deluge - after I sent the note to ldm-users, we received an administrative message that the NWS had declared a critical weather day for today The wording of the admin message made me believe that GOES-13 would not be turned off between 15:00 - 15:45 UTC today as was originally announced. - this morning we got a second administrative message whose wording created doubt in my mind about GOES-13 being turned off The wording was very clear that GOES-13 drift to 60 W would be put off, but that was not enough to be sure if they would turn off the data (which is currently being bent-piped through GOES-14). Because of this, I have been monitoring our GOES-13 data ingest to see if it would continue, and it has. The fact that GOES-13 data is still being broadcast has reaffirmed my belief that during an NWS-declared critical weather day, all planned changes are put on hold. So, we are poised to start inserting the GOES-16 imagery and products into the LDM queues on our toplevel IDD relay clusters int the DIFAX feed, but we are holding off until GOES-13 is actually turned off. The admin messages suggest that this would be Monday, January 8 at the earliest. Again, sorry for the unfulfilled expectations! Cheers, Tom -- **************************************************************************** Unidata User Support UCAR Unidata Program (303) 497-8642 P.O. Box 3000 address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unidata HomePage http://www.unidata.ucar.edu **************************************************************************** Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: VYE-407779 Department: Support IDD Priority: Normal Status: Closed =================== NOTE: All email exchanges with Unidata User Support are recorded in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and then made publicly available through the web. If you do not want to have your interactions made available in this way, you must let us know in each email you send to us.