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Re: [ldm-users] NOAAport down

On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, 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.

Yes, me too. I have a 3.8 meter dish, slightly blocked at the bottom, so it's more like 3.7 meters. My stats as of 19:32Z:

RF Status
 ---------------------------------------

 Symbol Rate            6.349000 Msps
 Frequency              1193.500000
 LO Frequency           5150
 VBER                   1.1341e-02  <---this should be zero
 Viterbi Rate           7
 LNB Power              ON
 Polarization           1
 Band                   0
 Long Line              0
 Hi Voltage Mode        0
 Signal Strength        80
 DemodGain              76
 C/N                    100.000000
 Signal Lock            1
 Data Lock              1
 Uncorrectables         127
 Noise Estimate         13
 Clock Offset           98
 Frequency Error        0
 ADC Midpoint Crossing  16
 ADC Clipping Count     255
 Digital Gain           0
 Clamping Count         0

Yep, something is interfering with it big time. I am now seeing noisy data
(small sized files only getting through) as well.

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Gilbert Sebenste                                                     ********
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Staff Meteorologist, Northern Illinois University                      ****
E-mail: sebenste@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx                                  ***
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