20051024: problem getting nexrad station list from adde.ucar.edu and papagayo

>From: Don Murray <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200510241356.j9ODue7u013793 McIDAS ADDE

Don,

>I was trying to load in some Level III radar data to the IDV this
>morning from adde.ucar.edu. I couldn't get a list of stations.
>To do this, the IDV sends (essentially) the following command:
>
>IMGLIST RTNEXRAD/N1P ID=LIST
>
>I also tried this in McIDAS with similar results (loading
>in Level III data from the Unidata GUI).

I just ran this command while pointing at adde.ucar.edu (which is now
the new version of motherlode even though it shouldn't be yet) from the
McIDAS-X v2005 installation on my home machine (FC4 Linux, 32-bit) and
got back a listing quickly:

IMGLIST RTNEXRAD/N1P ID=LIST
Image file directory listing for:RTNEXRAD/N1P
 Pos Satellite/         Date       Time      Center   Band(s)
     sensor                                 Lat  Lon
 --- -------------  ------------  --------  ---- ---- ------------
   1  RADAR         23 OCT 05296  16:08:00     HTX    5
   2  RADAR         24 OCT 05297  12:51:00     JKL    5
   3  RADAR         24 OCT 05297  13:11:00     MXX    5
   4  RADAR         24 OCT 05297  13:29:00     FCX    5
   5  RADAR         24 OCT 05297  13:37:00     TFX    5
   6  RADAR         24 OCT 05297  13:40:00     RIW    5
   7  RADAR         24 OCT 05297  13:43:00     BHX    5
   8  RADAR         24 OCT 05297  13:43:00     NKX    5
   9  RADAR         24 OCT 05297  13:43:00     BBX    5
  10  RADAR         24 OCT 05297  13:44:00     DAX    5
  11  RADAR         24 OCT 05297  13:44:00     FSX    5
  12  RADAR         24 OCT 05297  13:45:00     PDT    5
  13  RADAR         24 OCT 05297  13:45:00     BLX    5
  14  RADAR         24 OCT 05297  13:45:00     EMX    5
  15  RADAR         24 OCT 05297  13:45:00     INX    5
  16  RADAR         24 OCT 05297  13:46:00     LCH    5
  17  RADAR         24 OCT 05297  13:46:00     GJX    5
 ...

>I tried this from adde.ucar.edu and papagayo with the same
>results.  I was successful (in IDV and McIDAS) getting this
>to work from atm.geo.nsf.gov.  I didn't try any others.

I got back the following from papagayo:

IMGLIST RTNEXRAD/N1P ID=LIST
Image file directory listing for:RTNEXRAD/N1P
IMGLIST: No images meet the selection criteria
IMGLIST: done
IMGLIST failed, RC=2

This may be a configuration problem on papagayo; I'll check.

>Is this related to the file restructuring for the "new"
>motherlode?

It might be, or it might be that both adde.ucar.edu and
papagayo.unl.edu are now running McIDAS-X v2005.  Is it possible that
you are requesting a 'compress' compressed transfer (as opposed to gzip
compressed) and it is not running correctly on those machines?

Tom
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