20020529: NOAAPORT systems?

>From: Chris Herbster <address@hidden>
>Organization: Embry-Riddle University
>Keywords: 200205291555.g4TFtMp14690 NOAAPORT receive systems

Chris,

>We are evaluating NOAAPORT systems from a number of vendors and would
>appreciate feedback from the community as to positive or negative
>experiences with: your system's performance, maintenance issues
>(software/hardware) and your efforts to integrate things with the
>Unidata software packages.
>
>Any thoughts, comments or suggestions are welcome and very much appreciated.

Two things:

1) I know of several sites using either the Planetary Data, Inc system
   or the one from Unisys.  I have never heard any negative comments
   about either.  My impression is that the Planetary Data system is
   very flexible, and it is designed to play nicely with Unidata "stuff"
   (like the LDM and Unidata packages).  This is not an endorsement
   of PDI, however (we can't do that).

2) As part of a cooperative project between Unidata and COMET, I have
   been looking into the possibility of installing NOAAPORT receive
   systems in Central America and the Caribbean.  The problem with
   installations like this is the footprint of the satellite used
   to broadcast NOAAPORT (Americom GE-4); it is tuned for the CONUS.

You probably have this link already, but I feel like I need to include
it nonetheless:

NOAAPORT User's Page
http://205.156.54.206/noaaport/html/noaaport.shtml
  Manufacturers List of NOAAPORT Receive Systems
  http://205.156.54.206/noaaport/html/manu_lst.shtml

>Thanks for your time,

I would be interested in what you find out in your investigations.

>Chris Herbster
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Tom