20010103: GARP and NIDS

Tom,

The NIDS data on NOAAPORT is still encrypted.
You won't be able to view the NIDS data until it becomes
unencrypted sometime around Jan 10, 2001. The only station currently
enencrypted in the zlib compressed format is KARX. However, KARX is
being broadcast in both encrypted and unencrypted formats, so
you would have to be able to not file the encrypted products
(which are at the same times as the unencrypted) to make sure that
GEMPAK found the correct file.

The message "unsupported file format" is generated when GEMPAK doesn't
recognize the file format, which is the case since it isn't viewable
as NIDS products.

Steve Chiswell
Unidtas User Support



>From: "Thomas L. Mote" <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200101032259.f03Mxio14550

>
>Steve:
>
>I have recently hit Tom Yoksas and the LDM folks up for 
>help, so I guess you knew I would be coming your way. (I 
>have another question for Tom ready to go too.)
>
>I am now ingesting the NIDS data. I just reinstalled 5.6a 
>using the binary install on a RedHat 7 system. When I use 
>GARP, I can get to the image dates, but when I try to load 
>the images, I just get a message saying the images are not 
>in a supported file format.
>
>The directory structure is:
>
>/data/nexrad/NIDS/FFC/N0R/N0R_20010103_2234
>
>I also try displaying in Nmap. It seems to find the data 
>fine and shows me a set of times, but I never actually see 
>anything on the display.
>
>Any thoughts???
>
>
>
>
>----------------------
>Thomas L. Mote
>address@hidden
>