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164 NOUS40 KWBC 231957 FOS/NOAAPORT NOTICE NO. 1087 JUNE 23... 1997 TO FOS/NOAAPORT USERS SUBJECT NOAAPORT SATELLITE BROADCAST RETRANSMISSION THE AWIPS SOFTWARE RELEASE 2.1 WILL MAKE IT POSSIBLE FOR AWIPS FIELD SITES TO REQUEST RETRANSMISSION OF MISSING SATELLITE BROADCAST NETWORK /SBN/ DATA PRODUCTS FROM THE AWIPS NETWORK CONTROL FACILITY /NCF/ AND TO RECEIVE THE RETRANSMITTED PRODUCTS FROM THE NCF VIA THE SBN. REQUESTS FOR RETRANSMISSION WILL BE SENT FROM THE FIELD SITES OVER THE AWIPS WIDE AREA NETWORK /WAN/. THE REQUEST AND RETRANSMISSION PROCESS IS WHOLLY AUTOMATED AND ONLY EFFECTIVE FOR THE DATA PRODUCTS FROM THE NWS TELECOMMUNICATION GATEWAY /NWSTG/. THE GOES IMAGERY CHANNELS WILL NOT BE REBROADCAST. WHILE NOAAPORT RECEIVE SYSTEM /NRS/ USERS WILL NOT BE ABLE TO REQUEST RETRANSMISSION OF PRODUCTS THEY SHOULD BE AWARE OF THIS NEW FEATURE BECAUSE IT WILL OCCASIONALLY RESULT IN DUPLICATED PRODUCTS BEING RECEIVED. THE RETRANSMISSION FEATURE WILL BE EFFECTIVE WHEN A SOFTWARE UPGRADE RELATED TO THE AWIPS RELEASE 2.1 IS INSTALLED IN THE NCF CURRENTLY ANTICIPATED FOR LATE JULY OR EARLY AUGUST 1997. END NNNN
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