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[noaaport] Before and after of NOAAport switchover to SES-1

NIU's receiver, 1:15 AM CT Tuesday, using the Novramon software:

     Frequency: 1193.500000
     SymbolRate: 6.349000
       LNBFault: ok
     SignalLock: on
       DataLock: on
SignalStrength%: 76
           VBER: 0.00e+00
         Errors: 0
      ErrorRate: 0
DemodulatorGain: 78
  NoiseEstimate: 12
   DataSyncLoss: 0
    ClockOffset: 31
 FrequencyError: -2

College of DuPage's receiver, 1:20 AM:

 Frequency              1193.500000
 VBER                   1.6077e-02
 LNB Power              ON
 Signal Strength        76
 DemodGain              58
 Signal Lock            1
 Data Lock              1
 Uncorrectables         127
 Noise Estimate         11
 ADC Midpoint Crossing  16
 ADC Clipping Count     255
 Digital Gain           0
 Clamping Count         16
 Clock Offset           95
 Frequency Error        65535

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NIU's receiver, 9 AM Tuesday:

      Frequency: 1193.500000
     SymbolRate: 6.349000
       LNBFault: ok
     SignalLock: on
       DataLock: on
SignalStrength%: 78
           VBER: 0.00e+00
         Errors: 0
      ErrorRate: 0
DemodulatorGain: 58
  NoiseEstimate: 12
   DataSyncLoss: 0
    ClockOffset: 30
 FrequencyError: 1

College of DuPage's receiver, 9 AM Tuesday:

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

 Frequency              1193.500000
 VBER                   1.0504e-03
 Signal Strength        76
 DemodGain              78
 Signal Lock            1
 Data Lock              1
 Uncorrectables         0
 Noise Estimate         11
 Clock Offset           75
 Frequency Error        2
 ADC Midpoint Crossing  18
 ADC Clipping Count     249
 Digital Gain           0
 Clamping Count         0

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As expected, there was a signal increase---though not quite as much as I had hoped for. COD's reception improved by at least a factor of one, and the switchover to SES-1 was blatantly obvious on their product statistics reception graph for the NEXRAD part of the feed: 

http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/rtstats/iddstats_vol_nc?NEXRAD3+noaaport.cod.edu

And, Jose Nieves documents the signal bump:

http://weather.admin.niu.edu/noaaport61510.png

His realtime stats:

http://www.opennoaaport.net:8025/
So all in all, I wish they would bump it up just a bit more, but this did help significantly, as I thought it would. The slight drop in signal in Jose's feed this morning is really just the noise floor coming up as the sun rises. 

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Gilbert Sebenste                                                     ********
(My opinions only!)                                                  ******
Staff Meteorologist, Northern Illinois University                      ****
E-mail: sebenste@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx                                  ***
web: http://weather.admin.niu.edu                                      **
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