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Re: NOAAPORT dish

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  • Subject: Re: NOAAPORT dish
  • Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 14:21:45 -0600 (MDT)
On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Jeff Masters wrote:

> 
>   Hi Robb, we just got our NOAAPORT dish from Alden installed and sending
> data. I haven't monkeyed with the software they gave us to ingest the data
> yet, my coworkers in California have the docs, they say that the software
> is some sort of McIDAS stuff (/opt/nport/bin/inge). It seems Alden did not

Jeff,

It's not MCIDAS, but it's the SSEC NOAAport system. This system writes to
FIFO's in the /tmp dirs. The LDM configuration is simple, install a
standard LDM and then add a couple lines to read the FIFO's. Here's the 2
lines that we added to our ldmd.conf file on the NOAAport machine.

exec    "pqing -f IDS|DDPLUS /tmp/jmb.fifo.1"
exec    "pqing -f HRS /tmp/jmb.fifo.2"        

That's about it.  

Sometimes if the FIFO are not read from they get confused, so you might
have to do:

% /opt/nport/bin/inge stop
% /opt/nport/bin/inge start

To get it going initially.


Robb...

> install ldm on the machine they shipped us. Since we are supposed to be
> supplying IDD with NOAAPORT data, do you know the plan for interfacing
> these Alden NOAAPORT dishes with the LDM? Is there an option to run LDM
> instead of the vendor-supplied ingestor? Maybe it will all be clear when
> the docs arrive next week, in which case sorry for the wasted bandwidth. 
> 
> Thanks,
> Jeff
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Robb Kambic                                Unidata Program Center
Software Engineer III                      Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
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