wrote: You're right David, I did not expect that solar outage could have such a drastic effect on the MSG-1 downlink to Eumetsat. With a large dish the outage will be short. The operators probably

rsmoore@... writes: Robert, As you know MSG satellites will observe the Earth in 12 spectral channels. Each channel has the ability to detect/show various features. If you go to the

I'm not Paul, but I see data flow on three channels (I have three PIDs enabled) 01-00-5E-DE-DF - about 5Kb/s 01-00-5E-DE-17 - about 1700 Kb/s 01-00-5E-DE-15 - about 150Kb/s Looks like thr

Hello Paul, Well, I tried your tips, but still have no data recorded... I noticed on thing : under SETUP4PC, "Statistics", only 1 "MC" channel seems to receive data. Mac-Address is

Date Begin Peak End Closest 2003 Oct 12 12:30 12:37:43 12:44 UTC 0.59° 2003 Oct 13 12:30 12:37:29 12:44 UTC 0.22° 2003 Oct 14 12:29 12:37:15 12:44 UTC 0.15°

Peter, It is possible that both Douglas Deans and I have seen something like this. I have now has two unexplained high-segment-loss periods, and Douglas has previously noted that [accidentally]

Tnaks David, it seems to be down to a series of "Lost messages". Peter

segment loss:- [] [] [] [] All fine here, Peter. David

Additionally yesterday evening 12/10/03 I can report the following segment loss:- Cycle: 2100 msg-ch01, seg: 5 8 msg-ch02, seg: 4 6 7 8 msg-ch03, seg: 3 4 5 6 7 8 msg-ch04, seg: 4 5 6

douglas@... writes: Douglas, You raise two points, firstly, I had a long chat with the UK Met. Office's MSG Licensing Officer the other day. I'm sorry but I'm going to be a bit

alan.sewards@... writes: Alan, You make some very valid points in your e-mail and your thought are shared by many, I'm sure, including myself. Could I please jump in and say, for the time

David, Exactly the same here. Peter

UTC cycle. No, Ian, that cycle was complete. However, all this does have me wondering about some way of doing real-time comparisons of missing segments - at least for those of us who have less than

Hello Alan, The signal Quality reading is probably based on a calculated SNR figure. It is linked to the SNR reading. I did put in a line-amp to see what happend, the reading did not change. At my

Hello Robert and Hugh, Finding the right spot to mount your dish is not easy. But with some simple re-inforcements you can stiffen the existing mount. Placing a rod "triangling" the existing mount

David, my report is exactly the same as yours for the channels I am taking . Not taking LRIT and HRIT channels that I am presently taking are 1,2,3,4,6,9 and 12. I was speaking to Douglas on the

wrote: Thanks, Arne and Alan. David

communications, but there are also commercial aspects to be considered. From the Eumetsat viewpoint, HR data is probably more valuable than LR data, and users may be prepared to pay more for it -

I had this exactly as well. Best regards - Alan