On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Tom Yoksas wrote:
Hi Dan, Gilbert, et. al.,
re: NOAAPort outage
Dan Vietor wrote:
We received no data for about 40 minutes. We're getting data now
(started about 1920Z) but its very noisy. The BER is in the 10e-3
range.
I have noticed on a number of occasions that our Novra S75 needs to be
reset after an outage or noise incident. When I saw that we were once
again ingesting the NOAAPort broadcast, I logged onto one of our
ingesters (Solaris 10 x86) and ran S75_TEST. Our indicated viterbi Bit
Error Rate was on the order of 10e-2 until I reset the device. After
the reset, it has been hovering between 10e-5 and 10e-4.
I have a later generation of Novra which actually does a nice job of
preventing that from happening. In fact, as of 19:42Z, I see this from my
receiver:
Symbol Rate 6.349000 Msps
Frequency 1193.500000
LO Frequency 5150
VBER 2.5670e-04
So it's getting better, but now this bad news:
NOUS71 KNCF 161857
ADANCF
THERE IS A PROBLEM WITH THE AWIPS CARRIER ON THE SATELLITE. NCF AND
GLOBECOM ARE INVESTIGATING THE ISSUE.
WE WILL UPDATE AS NEW INFORMATION COMES AVAILABLE.
I hope the satellite isn't going haywire!
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