Subject: Re: Problems with GOES LRIT services.
Dave,

We are in the midst of moving equipment to the new NSOF building and 
have tried to stage equipment to minimize the impact to LRIT users, but 
invariably, we have not been able to avoid disruption in services.  Last 
night, the NSOF building experienced a major power outage that impacted 
the LRIT system for several hours.  This would probably coincide with 
the period in which you were seeing no images.  The system is back up, 
though we appear to have a problem with DCS data, which is being worked 
on as we speak.  An administrative message is being sent through the 
LRIT system to let users know that a major outage was experienced at 
NSOF that impacted the distribution of LRIT products.

Jeff

Dave Wright wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> We have been monitoring GOES 11 and GOES 12 images being transmitted 
> by GOES East after complaints from our customers about the lack of 
> images.  Since midnight we have received 104,000 frames with no 
> errors. Of these 91,000 are just empty fill frames and contain no 
> data. Some of the images have not been updated since yesterday, there 
> are missing segments bad blocks of data etc. This has been going on 
> for at least the last three days and it is certainly not due to lack 
> of signal. I am seeing a period of no data being sent which coincides 
> with the Spring Eclipse period but the situation outside this period 
> the updates of images are few and far between...if at all.
>
> Please advise.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> David Wright - Partner (RF Engineering)
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