All,
Our Noaaport signal strength & errors are both outside of normal thresholds:
[ldm@noaaport0 bin]$ ./s75status
Status for device: 0
Firmware Ver 3, Rev. 4 RF Firmware Codes: 0x506
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Symbol Rate 6.349000 Msps Frequency 1192.900024
The viterbi Bit Error Rate is 1.8792e-01 Viterbi Rate 2
LNB Power On, Polarization = 1, Band = 1
Signal Strength: 29 Signal Lock: 0 Data Lock: 0 Uncorrectables: 61
I've tried restarting the Novra with no success. The signal light is
blinking intermittently, and the lock light is off. Usually, both these
lights are steady green.
With our recent noreaster, we experienced wind gusts near 55 mph near
where our dish is located, so it is very possible our dish may need to
be repeaked. The last time we had this done in 2005, the technician we
used really didn't seem to have any special equipment, all he seemed to
do was make small adjustments while I continued to run the s75status
program until our signal strength improved. Not sure whether to hire
the same guy, hire the other guy (in rural NH, our options are limited!
;) ), or try to do the adjustments myself; the "official" website at
http://www.weather.gov/noaaport/html/sat_loc.shtml does not have much
for newbies on this.
Any advice is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Brendon
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Brendon Hoch
Technology Manager
Judd Gregg Meteorology Institute
MSC 48, Boyd Hall 321A
Plymouth State University
Plymouth, NH 03264
(603)535-2818 Fax: (603)535-2723
http://vortex.plymouth.edu/~bhoch
