20011023: NEXRAD Level III products on NOAAPORT (cont.)

>From: "Neil R. Smith" <address@hidden>
>Organization:  Texas A&M
>Keywords:  200110222221.f9MML2104153 LDM pqact NNEXRAD WSI

Neil,

>Thanks Tom.

I'm glad the information was useful.

>BTW, today I related to Anne that neither we or our upstream,
>cirp.met.utah.edu ("Bryan G. White" <address@hidden>), are getting 
>anything other than
>       SDUS5: N0R  N0S  N0V  NCR  NTP  NVL
>eg. none of the elevations other than the base 0.5 deg., even though
>his request line reads as:
>request NEXRAD
>        ".*"
>        motherlode.ucar.edu
>
>and mine as
>request NNEXRAD
>       ".*"
>       cirp.met.utah.edu
>
>Any ideas as to why this may be?

The reason for this is that there are no other products in the NOAAPORT
datastream.  The NWS has announced their intention to add additional
products to the broadcast on _I think_ three different occasions.  The
last one that most folks seem to remember was the July notice that 11
additional products would be added to NOAAPORT by the end of
September:

    NOUS40KWBC 131530
    FOS/NOAAPORT NOTICE NO. 1955       JULY 13... 2001
    
    ATTENTION   FAMILY OF SERVICES SUBSCRIBERS/NOAAPORT USERS
    
    SUBJECT  RADAR PRODUCTS TO BE ADDED TO NOAAPORT
    
    THIS IS A FOLLOW UP TO FOS/NOAAPORT NOTICE NO. 1905C
    DATED APRIL 2... 2001.
    
    BY THE END OF SEPTEMBER 2001... THE NATIONAL WEATHER
    SERVICE PLANS TO ADD 11 NEW DOPPLER WEATHER SURVEILLANCE
    RADAR /WSR-88D/ PRODUCTS TO THE NOAAPORT SATELLITE
    BROADCAST.
     ...

This was updated by a subsequent announcement:

    NOXX10KWBC 201841
    DATA MGT MESSAGE 09-01.06
    
    TO  FAMILY OF SERVICES SUBSCRIBERS AND NOAAPORT USERS
    
    FROM  DATA DISSEMINATION BRANCH
    
    SUBJECT  RADAR PRODUCTS ADDITION TO NOAAPORT DELAYED
    
    THIS IS A FOLLOW UP TO FOS/NOAAPORT NOTICE NO. 1955C
    DATED JULY 13... 2001.

    THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ADDITION OF 11 NEW DOPPLER
    WEATHER SURVEILLANCE RADAR /WSR-88D/ PRODUCTS TO THE
    NOAAPORT SATELLITE BROADCAST IS NOW PLANNED TO BE
    COMPLETED BY THE END OF NOVEMBER 2001.  THE TWO MONTH
    DELAY FROM THE EARLIER ANNOUNCED END OF SEPTEMBER DATE
    IS DUE TO DELAYS IN THE NWS INSTALLATIONS OF THE
    PREREQUISITE SOFTWARE RELEASE AT ITS SITES.  A FINAL
    NOTIFICATION GIVING THE EXACT DATE OF THE PLANNED
    PRODUCT ADDITIONS WILL BE ISSUED AT LEAST TEN DAYS IN
    ADVANCE.

    ...

Notice that the new intention is to include the 11 new doppler
products by the end of November, but that date can slip.

The full text of the messages are available in the nws-changes
archive at Unidata, or from:

Systems Operations Center Change Notices
http://205.156.54.206/cgi-bin/chg_show.pl?fn=NN090106.txt

As soon as we get new information from NOAA, we will send it along
to our users in our nws-changes email list.

Tom

>From address@hidden Tue Oct 23 17:50:09 2001
>Subject: Re: 20011023: NEXRAD Level III products on NOAAPORT (cont.)

OK. So I'm about as far as I can go with this one.
Thanks again for your time, Tom.
-Neil

-- 
Neil R. Smith, Comp. Sys. Mngr.         address@hidden
Dept. Atmospheric Sci., Texas A&M Univ. 979/845-6272 FAX:979/862-4466