David,

maybe you asked for some more precise information like this (taken from one of my FY-3D PyTROLL/SatPy processing files):

# File Pattern : {platform_shortname}_{start_time:%Y%m%d_%H%M%S}_{end_time:%H%M%S}_{orbit_number:s}_MERSI_1000M_L1B.{ext}
# File Pattern : {platform_shortname}_{start_time:%Y%m%d_%H%M%S}_{end_time:%H%M%S}_{orbit_number:s}_MERSI_GEO1K_L1B.{ext}
# Example name : FY3D_20200429_011200_011300_12719_MERSI_1000M_L1B.HDF
# Example name : FY3D_20200429_011200_011300_12719_MERSI_GEO1K_L1B.HDF
# Hugo's ruler : 0123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012
# copied EMCV : 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
# EUMETCast : These files arrive as above in channel E1H-RDS-2 (HVS-1)

Best regards
Ernst
========================

Thanks for both pieces of information.

If I understand correctly, this can all be decoded in Python's PyTROLL, so that should work under Windows? Correct? If so, I'll not waste effort duplicating what's already available.

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On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 06:22 AM, <john.haslam4@...> wrote:

For me the problem started on 12th October and affects both SUOMI-NPP and NOAA 20 ascending and descending passes between 50N and 60N; at the moment I do not receive FY-3D
I emailed OPS and they informed me that they were not aware of any anomalies in the data. I have sent them my verbose logfiles and copies of the H5 segment files associated with today's descending SUOMI-NPP pass about 10E of the UK as delivered by Tellicast.
Interestingly the HF file  associated with the missing lines is always significantly smaller than its neighbours.
I have got Python working for GOES 16 under Windows 10 thanks to Ernst's guide. Hope to move on to polar orbiters soon.

Best Rgds

John

John

For Suomi_NPP and Noaa_20 I can confirm your observations. The segments where we see the black gaps pretend
in their file names to be the standard length of app. 85 seconds. But their size is often only 50% of normal segments.

For FY-3D half of the pass over U.K. is simply missing. It's not disseminated. Documented for OPS on 3 orbits each.

Regards
Ernst

David,

maybe you asked for some more precise information like this (taken from one of my FY-3D PyTROLL/SatPy processing files):

# File Pattern : {platform_shortname}_{start_time:%Y%m%d_%H%M%S}_{end_time:%H%M%S}_{orbit_number:s}_MERSI_1000M_L1B.{ext}
# File Pattern : {platform_shortname}_{start_time:%Y%m%d_%H%M%S}_{end_time:%H%M%S}_{orbit_number:s}_MERSI_GEO1K_L1B.{ext}
# Example name : FY3D_20200429_011200_011300_12719_MERSI_1000M_L1B.HDF
# Example name : FY3D_20200429_011200_011300_12719_MERSI_GEO1K_L1B.HDF
# Hugo's ruler : 0123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012
# copied EMCV  : 0         1         2         3         4         5         6         7         8         9         10
# EUMETCast    : These files arrive as above in channel E1H-RDS-2 (HVS-1)

Best regards
Ernst

On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 11:57 AM, David J Taylor GM8ARV 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 wrote:

Many thanks, Graham. Do you happen to know anything about file names, and what length (minutes/seconds) each file is? I see GEO1K files which are ground location data, I guess.

David

FY-3D segments are 1 minute long as you can see in the file names.
They come in pairs: 1000M image data and GEO reference files.

Ernst

On 24/10/2020 19:42, Ernst Lobsiger via groups.io wrote:

On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 12:06 PM, Douglas Deans wrote:
Yes but not just yet as I am very busy at the moment (decorating a
room that needs to get back in use !).
I look forward to seeing what Eumetsat say about the NPP, NOAA 20
issues that John has written to them about and sent verbose log
files etc.
I am also hoping that they may check some things as they monitor the
MSG-1 group although probably not over the weekend.
Will keep in touch.
Regards,
Douglas.
Douglas, Graham, and John
I had a look at all three sats Noaa_20 (VIIRS), Suomi_NPP (VIIRS), and FY-3D (MERSI) for the last 3 days.
It's quite obvious that the EARS processing/dissemination chain is broken somehow. I'll report that to OPS.
Regards
Ernst

==========================================================================

Thanks Ernst. As I said previously it is suspicious that it is (from memory) the 3 satellites that transmit in the 7800 MHz band.

Regards,
Douglas.

On 24/10/2020 19:42, David J Taylor GM8ARV 🏴 🇪🇺 via groups.io wrote:

Can someone give me "some way" (e.g. wetransfer) a FY3D file? I can't receive that right now; want to try this with  xrit2pic.
Regards,
Rob.
=======================
I asked Ian Deans for one as well!
Cheers,
David

=========================================

Sorry David,I did not have any files as I was not taking the satellite data as I had no way of using the data in windows.
I will start taking data tomorrow for one day, so I have files available.

Regards
Ian.

Hi Rob and David

Here is one attached

Regards

Graham
==========================

Many thanks, Graham. Do you happen to know anything about file names, and what length (minutes/seconds) each file is? I see GEO1K files which are ground location data, I guess.

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Can someone give me "some way" (e.g. wetransfer) a FY3D file? I can't receive that right now; want to try this with xrit2pic.

Regards,
Rob.
============================

I found some, but I don't yet know channels etc.:

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AklMlWF4OUEFqSIm7DWP6mdQ_8aO?e=q1unIx

Good luck!

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Hi Rob and David

Here is one attached

Regards

Graham

Can someone give me "some way" (e.g. wetransfer) a FY3D file? I can't receive that right now; want to try this with xrit2pic.

Regards,
Rob.
=======================

I asked Ian Deans for one as well!

Cheers,
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On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 12:06 PM, Douglas Deans wrote:

Yes but not just yet as I am very busy at the moment (decorating a room that needs to get back in use !).
I look forward to seeing what Eumetsat say about the NPP, NOAA 20 issues that John has written to them about and sent verbose log files etc.
I am also hoping that they may check some things as they monitor the MSG-1 group although probably not over the weekend.

Will keep in touch.

Regards,
Douglas.

Douglas, Graham, and John

I had a look at all three sats Noaa_20 (VIIRS), Suomi_NPP (VIIRS), and FY-3D (MERSI) for the last 3 days.
It's quite obvious that the EARS processing/dissemination chain is broken somehow. I'll report that to OPS.

Regards
Ernst

Can someone give me "some way" (e.g. wetransfer) a FY3D file? I can't receive that right now; want to try this with xrit2pic.

Regards,
Rob.

Hello

I would like to by Eumetcast Satellite receiver . CAN be any suitable device
I loose my second processing unit during thunderstorm

Br. Esko Petäjä
------------------------------------------------

Esko,

Sorry to hear that! I don't associate Finland with a high thunderstorm risk.

How did the device fail - was it through the power connections, network connections, or the RF input?

I know that some people have had power supply failures (overheating?). If the failure was through the RF connector perhaps there's a lightning arrester you could fit? These should be easily available for the F connector used in satellite TV, but check they are rated for up to 1.7 GHz (satellite TV could be up to 2 GHz).

73,
David GM8ARV
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Hello

I am just updating my systems. Is it possible to use double tuner capability of devices to receive from both transponders T1/T2 with same card. ??

TBS-6903/6908 or SR 1

Br. Esko Petäjä
==============================

Esko,

Yes, I'm using a TBS6903 PCIe card in a PC receiving both T1/HVS-1 and T2/HVS-2 (likely it would do BAS as well but I have no need in that PC). It's in the single-cable configuration. Works well, but the TBS IP reception software continually crashed that Windows-10 PC, so I use BDADataEx instead. It doesn't stretch that PC much - it's receive-only supply a limited subset of HVS-1 data (GOES-16/17 and Himawari) over the house network.

https://www.satsignal.eu/mrtg/performance_lund.php

SR1 - one transponder only.

73,
David GM8ARV
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Hello

Double tuner with T1+T2 reception is possible with 1 TBS-6903 even with a single cable.
TBS-6908 is like 2 x TBS-6903 (overkill, up to 4 transponders like T1 or T2 possible).

An SR1 can only receive 1 transponder of the EUMETCast T1 or T2 kind (with ACM/VCM).
So you need 2 SR1 for T1+T2 and 2 LNB cables or 1 LNB cable and a HF power splitter.

Regards
Ernst


Am 24.10.2020 10:25, schrieb Esko Petaja:

ello

I would like to by Eumetcast Satellite receiver . CAN be any suitable device
I loose my second processing unit during thunderstorm

Br. Esko Petäjä

esko.petaja@...
+358505255236

Hello 

I am just updating my systems. Is it possible to use double tuner capability of devices to receive from both transponders T1/T2 with same  card. ??

TBS-6903/6908 or SR 1 

Br. Esko Petäjä

On 23/10/2020 18:24, Graham Woolf wrote:

Hi all
This mirrors what I am seeing - I havent had a complete image since the 11th Oct
Douglas - are you happy to liaise with OPS  ?
Regards
Graham

==================================================================================

Yes but not just yet as I am very busy at the moment (decorating a room that needs to get back in use !).
I look forward to seeing what Eumetsat say about the NPP, NOAA 20 issues that John has written to them about and sent verbose log files etc.
I am also hoping that they may check some things as they monitor the MSG-1 group although probably not over the weekend.

Will keep in touch.

Regards,
Douglas.

On 23/10/2020 18:05, Ernst Lobsiger via groups.io wrote:

All
This is for the problem of FY3D not imaging the U.K.. It's received under GNU/Linux, SAMBA shared and processed
with PyTROLL/SatPy under Windows 10. FY3D is an afternoon sat heading north. I attach the image and the files
that show that I had no packet lost, no file lost. This can be used in discussions with OPS that sees no problems.
The image should have the Isle of Man close to the pass "center": So about half of the expected pass is missing!
Cheers
Ernst

====================================================================

That is exactly as I get Ernst. In fact for months prior to that scenario there was a version with just a band across the UK missing and some files for further north.
This has been an issue for a while.

Regards,
Douglas.

David,

The official HDF4/5 does not work for FY3D and as Douglas has confirmed
EUMETCastView has not been updated for Windows for FY3D

As neither of these programs work I will assume there is little point in
sending any files.

Many thanks for your offer of help.

Regards
Ian.
=========================

Ian,

Remember that Windows now has a built-in subsystem for Linux, so perhaps that may be the best route?

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10

It's relatively easy to install. Then you can have the best of both worlds!

Cheers,
David
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