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Re: [noaaport] [ldm-users] NOAAport move to Galaxy 31 question

  • To: Gilbert Sebenste <gilbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: Re: [noaaport] [ldm-users] NOAAport move to Galaxy 31 question
  • From: "Stonie Cooper (he/his/him)" <cooper@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2023 17:24:02 -0600
My pleasure - and you, as well, have a good weekend!
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* Stonie Cooper                             UCAR Unidata Program *
* Software Engineer III                            P.O. Box 3000 *
* cooper@xxxxxxxx                              Boulder, CO 80307 *
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On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 5:22 PM Gilbert Sebenste <gilbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Got it. We are up and running as of this morning, with a C/N of
> approximately 16, and a signal of -34 dBM. we seem to be getting some
> interference from the T-Mobile tower located 500 feet from the dish that we
> are almost straight on pointing at. It will take several days for me to
> look at the "new normal" to see how many packets we lose. I will also play
> around with the Novra when I get some time next week, to see if I can tweak
> the reception a little more.
>
> Thanks for the help! have a good weekend.
>
> Gilbert
>
> Gilbert Sebenste
> Meteorology Support Analyst
> College of DuPage
>
> On Feb 8, 2023, at 4:13 PM, Stonie Cooper (he/his/him) <cooper@xxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> 
> I apologize, Gilbert - I didn't answer your question - you have your LNB
> power set to low . . . you need to have the Polarity set to Horizontal to
> drive 18VDC.  You are only driving 15VDC with Vertical setting.  Unless you
> have a feed actuator, you don't need to worry that you are actually
> changing the polarity from what should be set manually.
>
> Here is what I have for NOAAPort:
>
>         LNB Power:              On
>         LNB Status:             Normal
>         Voltage Range:          13-18v
>         Long Line:              On
>         Polarization:           Horizontal/Left
>         22KHz Tone:             On
>
>         Satellite Interface Settings:
>
>         Receiver MAC Address:   00-06-76-05-01-c0
>         Receiver Mode:          DVBS2
>         Frequency:              1130.0 MHz
>         Symbol Rate:            30.000 Msps
>         ModCod:                 2/3 16APSK
>         Gold code:              0
>         Input Stream Filter:    On
>         Input Stream ID:        18
>
>         Signal Lock:            On
>         Data Lock:              On
>         Uncorrectable Rate:     0/Second
>         Packet Error Rate:      0.0000e+00
>
>         Carrier to Noise C/N:   17.1dB
>         Signal Strength:        -41 dBm
>
> And for NWWS:
>
>         Satellite Interface Settings:
>         Satellite Interface Settings:
>
>         Receiver MAC Address:   00-06-76-05-02-a1
>         Receiver Mode:          DVBS2
>         Frequency:              1130.0 MHz
>         Symbol Rate:            30.000 Msps
>         ModCod:                 1/3 QPSK
>         Gold code:              0
>         Input Stream Filter:    On
>         Input Stream ID:        2
>
>         Signal Lock:            On
>         Data Lock:              On
>         Uncorrectable Rate:     0/Second
>         Packet Error Rate:      0.0000e+00
>
>         Carrier to Noise C/N:   17.1dB
>         Signal Strength:        -42 dBm
>
> +----------------------------------------------------------------+
> * Stonie Cooper                             UCAR Unidata Program *
> * Software Engineer III                            P.O. Box 3000 *
> * cooper@xxxxxxxx                              Boulder, CO 80307 *
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>
>
> On Wed, Feb 8, 2023 at 4:05 PM Stonie Cooper (he/his/him) <cooper@xxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> I stand corrected - all channels are populated.  This is only about 30
>> seconds of data:
>>
>> sbn-receiver -w
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> SBN Receiver: Running since Wed, 08 Feb 2023, 22:03 GMT, Up for 0.001
>> days -
>>    channel stats reset on Wed, 08 Feb 2023, 22:03 GMT
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>    Channel | Frames Processed | Frames Dropped | Percent Loss | Total MB
>> Frames
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>        NMC              13026                0       0.000000
>>  45.589
>>       NMC2              17444                0       0.000000
>>  69.269
>>       NOPT                974                0       0.000000
>> 0.262
>>        NPP               1491                0       0.000000
>> 6.012
>>        GRW              27778                0       0.000000
>> 111.684
>>        GRE              24690                0       0.000000
>>  99.177
>>       NWWS                 49                0       0.000000
>> 0.155
>>       NMCr              15626                0       0.000000
>>  54.821
>>      NMC2r              20408                0       0.000000
>>  81.008
>>      NOPTr               1170                0       0.000000
>> 0.309
>>      NWWSr                  0                0           -nan
>> 0.000
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>   Time on Queue Statistics - Units are in seconds, for both NCF and local.
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>    Channel      | NCF Max | NCF Ave | NCF Max WMO       | local Max |
>> local Ave
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>        NMC Queue         4         1  SXWI50 KWAL 082203           1
>>      0
>>       NMC2 Queue        84        70  ZUEP97 KWBC 081800           4
>>      2
>>       NOPT Queue         3         1  SROR20 KWAL 082203           1
>>      1
>>        NPP Queue      1052      1052  TIPB01 KNES 082119          12
>>     12
>>        GRW Queue        32        18  IXTJ89 KNES 082203           3
>>      1
>>        GRE Queue        16         7  TIRE07 KNES 082201           3
>>      1
>>       NWWS Queue         3         1  XOUS54 KWBC 082203           1
>>      0
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> +----------------------------------------------------------------+
>> * Stonie Cooper                             UCAR Unidata Program *
>> * Software Engineer III                            P.O. Box 3000 *
>> * cooper@xxxxxxxx                              Boulder, CO 80307 *
>> * Unidata WWW Service               http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ *
>> +----------------------------------------------------------------+
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 8, 2023 at 4:02 PM Stonie Cooper (he/his/him) <
>> cooper@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> I'll break my own rule about laying low and letting the community
>>> interact on this list . . . but, at the Cooper Compound, as soon as I
>>> turned the reflector to the 121W, I was receiving data.  It appears all
>>> PIDs are flowing except the two GOES netCDF PIDs.
>>>
>>> +----------------------------------------------------------------+
>>> * Stonie Cooper                             UCAR Unidata Program *
>>> * Software Engineer III                            P.O. Box 3000 *
>>> * cooper@xxxxxxxx                              Boulder, CO 80307 *
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>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 8, 2023 at 4:00 PM Sebenste, Gilbert <sebensteg@xxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>>
>>>> I was just told by Jim Glenn, who is in charge of the NOAAport move
>>>> from Galaxy 28 to Galaxy 31 that they began passing NOAAport data across
>>>> G31 yesterday. However, I am not seeing it here at the College of DuPage. I
>>>> am seeing a reasonably strong signal:
>>>>
>>>> Satellite Interface Settings:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         Receiver MAC Address:   00-06-76-05-02-d6
>>>>
>>>>         Receiver Mode:          DVBS2
>>>>
>>>>         Frequency:              1130.0 MHz
>>>>
>>>>         Symbol Rate:            30.001 Msps (Auto)
>>>>
>>>>         ModCod:                 2/3 16APSK
>>>>
>>>>         Gold code:              0
>>>>
>>>>         Input Stream Filter:    On
>>>>
>>>>         Input Stream ID:        18
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         Signal Lock:            On
>>>>
>>>>         Data Lock:              On
>>>>
>>>>         Uncorrectable Rate:     0/Second
>>>>
>>>>         Packet Error Rate:      1.0000e+01
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         Carrier to Noise C/N:   14.3dB
>>>>
>>>>         Signal Strength:        -35 dBm
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         Carrier to Noise C/N:   14.2dB
>>>>
>>>>         Signal Strength:        -35 dBm
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    - show lnb
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         LNB Power:              On
>>>>
>>>>        LNB Status:             Normal
>>>>
>>>>         Voltage Range:          13-18v
>>>>
>>>>         Long Line:              Off
>>>>
>>>>         Polarization:           Vertical/Right
>>>>
>>>>         22KHz Tone:             Off
>>>>
>>>> CMCS>
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone see anything wrong here?
>>>>
>>>> Gilbert Sebenste
>>>>
>>>> Meteorology Support Analyst
>>>>
>>>> College of DuPage
>>>>
>>>>
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