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Re: motherlode-thelma-shemp feeds

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  • Subject: Re: motherlode-thelma-shemp feeds
  • Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 16:03:06 -0700 (MST)
Hello Hsie, 

iita.rap is not a NNEXRAD relay machine, so it would not be an appropriate
failover. Contracts are no longer needed, and have not been for a year.
NNEXRAD is freely available, we no longer distribute WSI products.

Thank you,

-Jeff
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On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Eirh-Yu Hsie wrote:

> Hello:
> 
> Jeff Weber wrote:
> > 
> > Hello Hsie,
> > 
> > I have iita.rap.ucar.edu as your failover, and we currently do not have a
> > failover topology for NNEXRAD, however what we have suggested sites to do
> > is place an allow *.edu for the NNEXRAD feed. So if your site for NNEXRAD
> > goes down, please visit:
> > 
> > http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/projects/idd/nexradFeed.html
> > 
> > and try other machines from (in your case) the first level..
> > 
> 
> Can I use iita.rap.ucar.edu as my NEXRAD fallover site?  At the end of
> last year, I can not use it as my fallover site.  I suppose the contract
> was expired??
> 
> ---------------INCLUDE-----------------------
> Subject: 
>            Re: 20011108: New NEXRAD data
>        Date: 
>            Thu, 8 Nov 2001 15:33:51 -0700 (MST)
>        From: 
>            Jeff Weber <address@hidden>
>  Organization: 
>            UCAR/Unidata
>          To: 
>            Eirh-Yu Hsie <address@hidden>
>         CC: 
>            address@hidden
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hello Hsie, 
> 
> Unfortunately, until Jan 2002, iita.rap is ingesting propriatary radar
> data (mosaics) from WSI and cannot feed any external sites with the
> NNEXRAD feed or they will be in violation of their contract. So until
> that
> time, iita is not an option for external sites. I am more than happy to
> secure another failover for you for the NNEXRAD feed, but it cannot be
> iita or any other internal UCAR machine. 
> 
> Obviously, motherlode and iita can still serve as your feeds for the
> other
> feedtypes..just not NNEXRAD.
> 
> I will investigate another site for you for failover for NNEXRAD, and
> hopefully we will here back from LSU soon.
> 
> --------------END OF INCLUDE-----------
> 
> Hsie
> -------------------------
> Eirh-Yu Hsie
> Aeronomy Laboratory/NOAA
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> Boulder, CO  80305-3328
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