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Clint, The reason for the 3 different sources is that the 3 top tier nodes feed each other from their own satellites. It's a race condition on what source a product will come from. This is why the IDD is robust. This is good because it shows all the system are operating, it doesn't mean you are getting duplicates. The only way a duplicate should show up at your site is if a upstream site is receiving FOS and NOAAport. The products don't match because the sequence numbers are different even though the rest of the product is exactly the same, the ldm thinks they are different products. I know this is confusing. Robb... On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Clint Rowe wrote: > Robb, > > Now I've got three sources each for HDS and IDS|DDPLUS, instead of only two > yesterday. But, since not much is coming from alden, the result is not too > different. > > Clint > > 19990325184033 HDS dusk.ssec.wisc.edu 114 253233 > > 1.40 8@2504 19990325184033 > 19990325184030 HDS nport.alden.com 32 74945 > > 0.00 0@0000 19990325183931 > 19990325184336 HDS tg2.awips.ucar.edu 192 379703 > > 1.33 7@2507 19990325184336 > 19990325184355 IDS|DDPLUS dusk.ssec.wisc.edu 1107 870063 > > 1.21 17@0924 19990325184355 > 19990325184357 IDS|DDPLUS nport.alden.com 473 356017 > > 0.00 0@0000 19990325184259 > 19990325184252 IDS|DDPLUS tg2.awips.ucar.edu 2047 1580916 > > 1.10 14@0928 19990325184253 > 19990325183723 MCIDAS unidata.ssec.wisc.edu 13 9304139 > > 24.58 57@1918 19990325183813 > 19990325184105 FSL2 dion.fsl.noaa.gov 8 1126524 > > 13.52 29@3504 19990325184110 > 19990325184238 NLDN striker.atmos.albany.edu 8 20860 > > 14.33 18@0636 19990325184255 > > > > ==================================================================== > Clinton M. Rowe > Associate Professor > Meteorology/Climatology Program phone:(402)472-1946 > Department of Geosciences fax:(402)472-4917 > University of Nebraska-Lincoln address@hidden > =============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ===============================================================================