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20000918: MCIDAS images via LDM

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  • Subject: 20000918: MCIDAS images via LDM
  • Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 11:04:45 -0600
Dave,

On Friday, the delta-encoded LWTOA3 images were removed from the data stream.
You should be using the pnga2area ldm-mcidas action to store the images now.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support



>From: Dave Dempsey <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200009181632.e8IGWHb04705

>*> From address@hidden Sun Sep 17 19:07 PDT 2000
>*> Subject: Re: MCIDAS images via LDM
>*> To: address@hidden (Dave Dempsey)
>*> Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 19:07:24 -0700 (PDT)
>*> 
>*> Per my messages of last week, you need to switch from grayskies
>*> (128.95.89.2) to sunny89 (128.95.89.38).
>
>Harry,
>
>Sorry to inflict that message on you--I thought I'd figured out the
>problem before I sent the message to you. Turns out that we had a
>separate "request" line in our ldmd.conf file for MCIDAS images, and
>the machine was specified by IP address rather than machine name and I
>missed it.
>
>However, after correcting that oversight, we seem to be getting MCIDAS
>images but no longer saving them:
>
>   Data reception log example:
>
>20000918125014  MCIDAS        unidata.ssec.wisc.edu         16    5047002     
>  16.50   55@3813 20000918125021
>
>An example line in pqact.conf is:
>
>MCIDAS ^LWTOA3.*DIALPROD=U9
>       PIPE    -close /usr/local/wxp/bin/mc2area -p /h/data/mcidas/gwvis %y%m%
> d%H_svi.mca
>
>This has worked fine for years but suddenly stopped working after we
>switched to sunny89. There are no error messages in our LDM logs, and
>we're getting all of our other data.
>
>Thinking that the invocation of the WXP program "mc2area" might have
>been the problem, I added an alternative:
>
>MCIDAS ^LWTOA3.*DIALPROD=U9
>       FILE    data/mcidas/gwvis/(\1:yy)(\1:mm)\1\2_svi.mcu
>
>This produces zilch also. The problem applies to all 11 types of MCIDAS
>images, for each of which we have a separate pqact.conf entry.
>
>To your knowledge, has the header line for MCIDAS images been affected
>in some way by the switch to sunny89, or a change implemented 
>coincident with the switch, that might make our pqact.conf entries
>obsolete?
>
>-- Dave
>                         
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