All, Having borrowed our 60 cm rally dish from Francis [which has always given us good EUMETCast signals (split two ways) from Hot Bird] I ran some test from...
All, I've been chatting to Ops this week and they inform me that a users survey will go live on their website early next week. Sorry I don't yet have a link. ...
geojohnt@... wrote: [] ... [] ... Folks, I just tried a 35cm dish in Edinburgh, and with exceedingly critical alignment I could get Eurobird-9 with 70%...
Hi to the list, I am going made setting this bird. Is it actually working? I have followed the instructions on Roy's site but I cannot get trough. When I go...
... Yes, Enzo, Eurobird-9 was working earlier this morning. Full instructions will be in the next GEO Quarterly, so be sure your membership is up-to-date: ...
Hi all, I have used a holiday to make a further attempt to crack the problem of receiving the new EB9 transponder, and believe that by moving the pole just a...
James that looks perfect to me. I am using a Dexatek box, but I did set up my back up computer as well and that has a SkyStar card installed. It was about 7...
... Look fine, James. David -- SatSignal software - quality software written to your requirements Web: http://www.satsignal.eu Email: davidtaylor@......
... Oh that's good news then! Thank you David and Ian very much for the swift response. My only hope now is that the new hole I have dug for the pole is deep...
Folks, On another group, the question of using the RAMdisk for the \received\ directory as well as for the FSY files arose. Perhaps you could also put the...
... used ... like to ... David and All, According to Wikipedia: USB flash drives allow reading, writing, and erasing of data, with some allowing 1 million...
brekaman wrote: [] ... Thanks, Rob. I suspect the 1 million figure is not hard and fast one, but just a calculated or test limit. I think that recent flash...
Hi all, As I understand it your trying to reduce the number of packets with regards to a low end spec pc? Well from the experiments I have done here with the...
... [] ... Mark, I completely agree with you, but I have not tried the \received\ living on a RAMdisk myself, so it's useful to have even that vague...
... up dropping packets again! ... up wearing it out! ... David, Mark, at the beginning of my experience with Eumetcast I thought to use a compact flash...
... supposed ... (METOP). ... Hi all, I have a one-PC system and I use ramdisk for fsy, tmp and \received\. I have 4 GB memory and my ramdisk is set to 256 MB....
Hi again, Strange - but got a lot of missing FSD segments - all other channels appear to be without loss, including METOP and AVHRR and the 0.fsy has been...
rolf.sjoberg wrote: [] ... Rolf, I've also seen increases in missed data packets and hence missing MSG1/2 segments on one system. I /think/ it's due to...
On low spec systems latency is critical. Even if your CPU can handle but the disk is active on other jobs you will miss the start of a Metop chunk. About...
James your FSD problem is a strange one and must be user related as FSD is fine with me. Hopefully David may be able to throw some light on it. Regarding the...
a_van_belle wrote: [] ... [] ... As a matter of interest, Arne (and off-topic here), I recently wanted to copy about 8GB of data from one PC to another. The...
Hi James, No problems here with FSD. I would have thought that other reception would suffer before FSD. Sounds as though you are getting corrupt data...
James Brown wrote: [] ... James, Are you sending the MSG-1 and MSG-2 data to separate directories in your recv-channels.ini? It sounds as if the second MSG...
Hello James, When your 0.fsy reaches 131 MB, Tellicast will create 1.fsy. As Ian said, only when you have not changed the default 256 MB limit. There must be...
... I think you are right David - it was that previous alteration which sorted out the RSS files, but then caused the conflict. I had assumed that leaving the...
James Brown wrote: [] ... Yes, I would have expected the program not to touch the "other" MSG files, but remember that the FSD no longer carry any "MSG" label,...
... MSG1/2 ... I'm ... I disabled the virus checking for the Tellicast directories some months ago but I couldn´t really see any positive effect. If the disks...
... [] ... There is a new version of the MSG Data Manager in beta which will clear out any unprocessed files after a specified number of days. May not help ...