GOES Vendors
last updated 17 September 2002
GOES Vendors
last updated 17 September 2002
Apogee Solutions attn: Torben Nielsen 6750 Hawaii Kai Drive, Suite 105 Honolulu, HI 96825 808-956-3499 mailto://torben@hawaii.edu
Antenna Technology Communications, Inc. 1128 E. Greenway Mesa, AZ 85203 602-264-7275 FAX 602-898-7667 http://www.atci.net/ EAST COAST REP. ATCi 289 Atlas Street Simpson, PA 18407 717-282-3590 FAX 717-282-3258
Direct Met Attn: Ron Boyd Vice President, Commercial Services Global Science and Technology 9111 Edmonston Road, Suite 202 Greenbelt, MD 20770 301-313-0164 x209 FAX 301-313-0376 boyd@gst.com http://directmet.com/
GTI Electronics attn: George T. Isleib 1444 Hamilton Blvd Suite 601 Allentown, Pa 18102 APT-WEFAX-GVAR-HRPT-GMS-SEASTAR gtielect@enter.net http://www.gtielectronics.com
MacDonald Dettwiler attn: Alan Vlemmiks 13800 Commerce Parkway Richmond, BC, Canada V6V 2J3 604-278-3411 fax: 604-278-2117 klm@mda.ca http://www.mda.ca/
Morcom International, Inc. 14210-B Sullyfield Circle Chantilly, Virginia 20151 USA Phone: (703)263-9305 Fax: (703)263-9308 Email: info@morcom.com Web: www.morcom.com
Omitron, Inc. 6411 Ivy Lane, Suite 600 Greenbelt, MD 20770 301-474-1700 http://www.omitron.com
Quorum Communications, Inc. 8304 Esters Blvd Suite 850 Irving, TX 75063 Phone: (800) 982-9614 in USA and Canada Phone: (972) 915-0256 from anywhere FAX: (972) 915-0270 info@qcom.com http://www.qcom.com/
SeaSpace Corporation 9240 Trade Place, Suite 100 San Diego, CA 92126 619-578-4010 fax: 619-578-3625 support@seaspace.com http://www.seaspace.com/
SMARTech attn: Leslie Davis, Marketing Director 1725 Signal Point Road Charleston, SC 29412 1-843-795-5621 ldavis@smartstation.com http://www.smartstation.com
Software Systems Consulting 615 S. El Camino Real San Clemente, CA 92672 714-498-5874 fax: 714-498-0568
Systems West, Inc. 3239 Imjin Road Marina, CA 93933-5109 408-582-1050 Fax: 408-582-1056 syswest@syswest.com http://www.syswest.com/
Northern Video Graphics attn: Russ Green Business and Technology Center 511 Eleventh Avenue, So., Box 92 Minneapolis, MN 55415 USA 612-338-6589 mailto://nvg@augsburg.edu (NOTE: took over from WEST, Western Engineering and Satellite Technology, when Steve Eigsti died)
VAS-Data Acquisition Systems, Inc. attn: Roger Beale 4014 Bethel Church Rd. Evington, VA 24550-3962 Tel/FAX: (804)525-5202 roger.beale@vas-das.com http://www.vas-das.com
Subject: GOES System Vendors From: jhawkins@nesdis.noaa.gov (Jamie Hawkins) Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 11:05:52 +0500 A message to all GOES direct-readout (GVAR or WEFAX) systems vendors: The GOES Program office at NOAA maintains a list of all known GOES GVAR and WEFAX receive system vendors. We'd like to update our list with any new vendors and make sure all current entries are accurate. We expect to be asked to distribute such a list at the upcoming American Meteorological Society annual convention in January. Please send us via email your complete company contact name and address, including phone and email, along with a brief description of the type of GOES system you offer. If you would like, you may send detailed systems descriptions, brochures, or price lists via US mail to the address given below. This information will be included in our general files, but will not be distributed; anyone who contacts NOAA requesting information on GOES systems will be given our vendor mailing list only. Thanks for your input. Please use the email address below. .................................... Jamison Hawkins GOES Product Manager NOAA/NESDIS FB4, Room 3010 Suitland, MD 20746 301-457-5125 jhawkins@nesdis.noaa.gov ...................................
Subject: Re: GOES ground station antenna size From: allan@qcom.com (Allan B. Bundens) Date: Sat, 18 Nov 1995 17:01:25 -0600 NOTE: To fully disclose my position, I am not a casual observer. I am an owner of Quorum Communications, a manufacturer of GVAR equipment. There are many factors that influence the quality of GVAR reception from the GOES satellites, only one of which is the size of the dish. The end result of "specklies" or "dirty lines" can be a result of poor performance in any of the system components. First, antenna gain is very important and a 3 meter dish is capable of providing better than 10E-8 BER with a good feed / downconverter and reception system. What is generally overlooked is that for any given antenna to provide the best performance, the feed must be designed to properly illuminate the dish for high efficiency. Poorly matched antenna / feed combinations will have low efficiency and exibit sidelobes that can cause interference from other satellites. Next in line, the downconverter or as is usually the case for GVAR systems, integrated feed downconverter, must have a low noise figure. Typical units available today will have noise figures of about 0.8dB. Better units with noise figures of 0.5dB or less will allow a smaller antenna. The downconverter should also provide enough gain to overcome the signal attenuation in the IF cable and still keep the system noise figure low. It is also important that the downconverter have 40 to 60 dB of image rejection. Next, the receiver quality is very important. GVAR data is transmitted using BPSK and most receiver implementations use some form of costas-loop to phaselock to the incoming carrier and decode the BPSK data. Poor design here can cause the detector to unlock generating bad data. BPSK receivers are in general easy to build but hard to make work reliably. The receiver should also contain an IF filter of the correct bandwidth. The wefax signal on GOES 8 is very strong and can interfere with the GVAR reception if the receiver does not have a good filter at the GVAR frequency. Also, the receiver noise figure should be low enough that the system noise figure is low. Next, the bit sync needs to lock up to the raw data stream and output decoded clock and data. While it is relatively easy to make a GVAR bitsync that operates well under low noise conditions, it's a bit more difficult to make one operate well under moderate to high noise conditions. You should look for a bitsync that provides performance within 1dB of theoretical. Obviously, a poor bitsync design will output bad data. Next, the frame formatter needs to lock up to the GVAR PN sequence and make framed data available to the computer. Again, it's easy to make one of these that works well under good conditions, but it's much harder to get good performance in the presence of noisy data. Lastly, you need to pass the data to the computer without dropping any. Again, there is an opportunity to drop data with a poor design here. So, to conclude, you "could" get perfect data with a 3 meter dish if the rest of your system was designed well and functioning correctly. I can't make any specific recommendations other than to suggest that you talk to your system vendor for specific performance specs. I am the president of Quorum Communications. Our company manufactures components that are used by a number of system suppliers in their GVAR products, so my comments may be tainted with the perspective of any manufacturer. I can tell you that we use a Winguard 10' dish at our site with a Quorum Integrated Feed / Downconverter (noise figure 0.8dB), Quorum QC-5011 BPSK Receiver and Quorum Bitsync / Frame Formatter. Our receiver / bitsync has been designed and tested to provide performance within 1dB of theoretical. Our frame formatter uses a hardware correlator capable of reliable operation with bit error rates as low as 3x10E-2 and we have a built in bit error rate tester thats checks the 10000+ bit correlation sequence against a known correct copy. Our BER performance with this system varies from a low of 1x10E-9 to better than 1x10E-11. We suspect that this closely follows the BER of the uplink system. There are no sparklies, dropped lines or frame unlocks under any conditions, even rapid scan mode. We receive ALL of the data transmitted by the satellite and transfer ALL of it across the bus to be written to hard disk. Our in house system uses a Pentium 90 running Windows NT. While we would not recommend it, performance with a 6' dish is around 1x10E-6. I hope this provides some help. Allan Bundens =========================================================================== = Allan B. Bundens Quorum Communications, Inc. = = allan@qcom.com 8304 Esters Blvd - Suite 850 = = (214) 915-0256 Irving, Texas 75063 USA = = (214) 915-0270 FAX http://www.qcom.com = = (214) 915-0346 BBS ftp://ftp.qcom.com = ===========================================================================
Subject: Ground Station Equipment From: George T. Isleib gtielect@ptd.net http: //www.gtielectronics.com Date: June 27, 2000 NOTE: George T. Isleib is the Vice President of GTI Electronics and director of Technical Operations. We manufacture GVAR and HRPT Ground stations. The company is owned by Carol L. Isleib, Pres. As with any complex system, there are many influencing factors that will govern the final results of what can or cannot be expected from a GVAR ground station only one of which is the dish. Any one of several items including dish size, noise figure, filtering, cable length, receiver, formatter card etc., can produce unwanted results that include missed blocks, missing lines, sparklies etc., to name a few. A typical dish size at this point in time is typically a 10 foot dish, however to clarify this a bit further, it is only true if the following is true as well. The 10 foot dish must be fully illuminated and the noise figure of the feed must be below 1 dB. A patch feed does not actually fully illuminate the dish regardless of its size and at high latitudes such as those above 40 degrees may not give the de- sired results. A dish using a feed specifically designed for the F/D of the dish and designed to fully illuminate it with the proper noise figure will produce results that shows a 10 foot under these conditons will outperform a 12 foot dish using a patch feed. The integrated feed/downconverter should be constructed that both combline and bandpass filters are located at the input stage of the pre-amp. The downconverted GVAR signal should be amplified so that the gain will allow the end user to locate the dish hundreds of feet from the receiver but the noise figure of the pre-amp must be below 1 dB if you are to use a 10 foot dish with the properly designed electronics that can fully illuminate the dish. It should also have a bandpass filter at the downconverted frequency to further eliminate extraneous interference. The downconverter should have more than 60 dB of image rejection as well. The receiver decoding is extremely important to decode the BPSK data stream. The favorite, the Costas Loop configuration, is a superb circuit for phaselocking to the GVAR data stream and decoding the BPSK data. Currently BPSK Costal Loop systems are very simple to construct and are one of the most reliable to date. By utilizing the proper filtering, bandpassing, and properly designed loop circuitry, it can reliable produce data that approaches the theoretical maximum under the most severe weather conditions. GTI Electronics is located at 40 degrees N latitude. We use an integrated feed/downconverter with a true noise figure of .78 dB with a conversion gain of 68 dB and a 10 foot dish. Our receiver/bitsync has given us 1 missing block in a 24 hour period consistently. To put this in perspective, the GVAR data stream produces about 20 Gbytes of data in 24 hours! The data shows no sparklies, missing lines, frame unlocking, etc., using a typical 10 foot dish and our Feed/downconverter and bit sync card. We use a Pentium III, 500 Mhz computer and all data is displayed at 16 Million colors with a 256 Greyscale. We ingest the data at the full resolution of the satellite displaying it live as received along with the Sounder data as well. All software runs under the WindowsNT platform and is multi-tasking and multi-threaded. We have used our system on a 7 foot dish with perfectly usable data at our 40 degree N location with all ingesting and processing done on a single desktop machine. George T. Isleib, VP GTI Electronics 1709 Municipal Rd Lehighton, PA 18235 Tel 570-386-4032 Fax 570-386-5063
NOAA now posts the WEFAX schedules on the Web, and in more than one place.
NOAA will change WEFAX image format beginning July, 1997.
NOAA will convert from analog WEFAX to digital LRIT broadcast format begiining with GOES-N in 2002. The rest of the geosynchronous satellite will do likewise.
STATUS FOR LRIT CONVERSION, SATELLITES IN GEOSTATIONARY ORBIT
(updated 23 August 2000)
|
Operator |
Satellite |
Launch (M/Y) |
Service |
Start |
Stop |
|
EUMETSAT |
Meteosat 5 |
03/1991 |
WEFAX |
03/91 |
|
|
Meteosat 6 |
11/1993 |
WEFAX |
11/93 |
|
|
|
Meteosat 7 |
09/1997 |
WEFAX |
07/97 |
12/2003 |
|
|
MSG 1 |
1/2002 |
LRIT |
7/02 |
2007 |
|
|
MSG 2 |
2002 |
LRIT |
2003 |
2008 |
|
|
MSG 3 |
2007 |
LRIT |
2008 |
2013 |
|
|
India |
INSAT I-d |
06/1990 |
None |
||
|
INSAT II-a |
07/1992 |
None |
|||
|
INSAT II-b |
07/1993 |
None |
|||
|
INSAT II-e |
--- |
None |
|||
|
Japan |
GMS-5 |
03/1995 |
WEFAX |
06/95 |
07/2004 |
|
MTSAT-1R |
01/2003 |
WEFAX |
07/03 |
03/2005 |
|
|
MTSAT-2 |
07/2004 |
LRIT |
07/08 |
07/2013 |
|
|
USA |
GOES - 8 |
04/1994 |
WEFAX |
11/94 |
|
|
GOES - 9 |
05/1995 |
WEFAX |
01/96 |
||
|
GOES - 10 |
04/1997 |
WEFAX |
06/97 |
||
|
GOES - 11 |
05/2000 |
WEFAX |
09/00 |
||
|
GOES - M |
08/2002 |
WEFAX |
10/02 |
||
|
GOES - N |
2002 |
WEFAX/LRIT |
|||
|
GOES - O |
2005 |
WEFAX/LRIT |
|||
|
Russian Federation |
Elektro-1 |
11/94 |
WEFAX |
||
|
Elektro-2 |
--- |
WEFAX |
|||
|
Elektro-3 |
2002 |
LRIT |
2002 |
||
|
China |
FY-2 |
--- |
WEFAX |
MultiFAX Route 1, Box 27 Peachland, NC 28133 USA Tel: 704-272-9028 Fax: 704-272-9036 BBS: 716-425-8759 Email: multifax@vnet.net
Satellite Data Systems, Inc. P.O. Box 219 Cleveland, MN 56017-0219 ph: 507-931-4849 fax: 507-931-4849 Internet: sds@ic.mankato.mn.us World Wide Web: http://ic.mankato.mn.us/~sds Products: APT and WEFAX systems Quadrifilar Helix Antennas for APT Weather Satellite Image Interpretation course, Middle School and Up. KidSat weather interpretation course for grades 2-6
Quorum Communications, Inc. 8304 Esters Blvd Suite 850 Irving, TX 75063 Phone: (800) 982-9614 in USA and Canada Phone: (214) 915-0256 from anywhere FAX: (214) 915-0270 Email: info@qcom.com
Subject: The Need for Selectivity (Was: Re: Pager Interference) From: rbarth@noaa.gov (Richard Barth) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 12:57:54 -0400 Peter, The answer you received from the Radiocommunications Agency is perhaps the first thing spectrum regulators think of, and being on the fringes of that business myself I undertand why. In fact, given your use of what you describe as an "ultra-broadband receiver", they may well be right. There are primarily three things that create interference in situations such as the one you describe, in which the interferer (here, above 138 MHz) and the desired signal (here, 137. something) are significantly different in frequency. (1) One is the possibility of an over-broad interfering signal. A pager probably requires no more than, say, 25 KHz of bandwidth, and any energy outside that bandwidth should be reduced to an acceptable level (as defined by the Agency.) Given that you see pager energy down to 137.7 MHz or so, they may be putting out excessive spurious energy, in which case they may be responsible for curing the problem. But, see (2). (2) If the receiver (and this includes spectrum analyzers) are over-broad, they may receive a clean out-of-band signal and, because of their own non-linearity, generate hash IN THE RECEIVER which disrupts the desired signal. The receiver, to avoid this problem, must have sufficient dynamic range to avoid non-linearity or must filter out the interferer. (3) A strong (though clean) interferer may cause the receiver AGC to attenuate the desired signal to the point of unreadability. The kinds of satellite you're looking for aren't rock-crushers. Particularly during certain parts of the pass they're probably pretty weak in comparison to interference. Therefore, they're vulnerable to all of the above problems. A filter is one way to extend the useful life of an overly broad receiver, if its lack of selectivity is in fact the problem. I expect there are others in this group who know more than I about filters, so I'll leave it to them to provide recommendations on availability and sources. One point I would like to add is that this problem is likely to get worse as time goes on. There is more and more pressure from industry to use what up to now have been considered "meteorology bands." The Mobile Satellite Service (MSS, a.k.a. "Little LEOs") is already using 137-138 MHz and the current lack of problems is due primarily to the fact that they haven't gotten around to doing it in a big way. Only 8 or so MSS satellites are currently flying here. There will eventually be dozens and may approach 100 depending on the decisions made by licensing authorities (of which I'm not one, so please don't preach to the choir.) Similar commercial use is currently authorized (by ITU spectrum allocation) in 400.15-401 MHz planned for use by U.S. metsats in a few years, and in 1675-1710 MHz now used by Japanese S-VISSR, by U.S. GVAR, WEFAX, EMWIN, HRPT etc., and by radiosondes around the world. Unless national regulatory bodies recognize the need for, and protect existing meteorological activities the problem will only get worse. Earlier, "Dr. Peter N.H. Davies" (P.N.H.Davies@sussex.ac.uk) said: * *I was reminded, by a recent wxsat-l mail query (Richard.Whitcombe, "A *few beginners questions", 11/7/97), that quite a large proportion of the *UK 137 MHz amateur satellite band is apparently permanently masked by *100W pager interference at 138+MHz. * *Last week I had a brief opportunity to talk to some members of the UK *Radio Communications Agency (RCA), who police our airwaves, about this *problem. * *Problem! What problem! Apparently amateurs are using inferior equipment! * *Now, as a newcomer myself to radio (and in particular, satellite) *reception, I can quite believe I am, but didn't fully appreciate it. *I use an ultra-broadband receiver, which gives me enormous receiving *flexibility, but I think I have probably been lulled by the apparently *high frequency discrimination into somehow expecting a better intrinsic *performance (a 'spike' at 137.50, 137.62... would be nice). In practice, *using a spectrum analyser, I can see an enormous, variable 50dB pager *'curtain' spreading down as far as 137.7 MHz. * *If this is entirely an artifact of my equipment, then I'll have to learn *how to filter it - or live with it. If you know otherwise, then the RCA *(New King's Beam House, 22 Upper Ground, London, SE1 9SA), although *under-manned and under-funded, would like to know; they have enormous *powers (above police and customs, apparently) to enforce frequency *spectrum conformance. * *Any useful filtering suggestion, anyone? *All the best, Peter. *-- *************** Sussex University Space Science Centre *************** *Dr. Peter N.H. Davies, Sussex University, Brighton, Sussex. UK. BN1 9QT *phone: +44 (0)1273 678599 fax: +44 (0)1273 678399 *E-mail: p.n.h.davies@susx.ac.uk *WEB: http://www.susx.ac.uk/engg/research/space/ -- Richard Barth *** W3HWN@AMRAD.ORG *** Silver Spring MD
From: Mr Chris Johannes Van Lint (thai@HK.Super.NET) Date: Sat, 21 Jan 1995 18:08:53 +0800 (HKT) Anita Perryman wrote re- GMS-4 reception in Indonesia Anita, The dish is certainly the least of their problems. There are plenty of dishes about in Indonesia, most of them between 1.5 - 2m. They are used for TVRO reception and are more than adequate. In comparison to Meteosat an GOES imaging, the fundamental problem with GMS is that the receiver requires a bandwidth of 260 KHz and a commercially available receiver generally does not cover this. If your colleagues have experience with electronics, especially radio, a very elegant solution is to take a commercial FM broadcast receiver and remove a few turns from the oscillator coil to adjust the coverage to 137.5 MHz. Common practice is to use a "coffeecan" type feedhorn, which is easy to home brew, followed by a 1.7 GHz LNA, which probably will have to be a commercial unit, unless your friends are very well versed in matters SHF and have the necesary test gear. The pre-amp is followed by a down converter to 137.5 MHz and then into the receiver. Again one could build a downconverter ones self given the required skills. Alternatively the downconverters available in the UK would be suitable for GMS-4 keeping in mind that the operating frequency of GMS-4 is 1691.00 MHz. Once you have a signal, it will need to be decoded. Not surprisingly the Australians porbably would be the best source for hardware and software. A fellow in Brisbane produces an excellent decoder board for about AU $ 100.00 (I think) and in the same City you will find Michael Delahunty, who has produced software for decoding the GMS series in addition to the usual APT at a more than reasonable price. If other software and decoder boards are already available, such as the Timestep kit, these are fine. Again if you require a ready made down converter and 260 KHz bandwidth receiver another chap again in Brisbane by the name of Peter Williamson produces these. BTW GMS-4 is to be replaced sometime in February this year by GMS-5, which will carry a further 2 spectral ranges for images. Note that the above set up refers to the low resolution GMS-4 images which are transmitted on the hour evry hour. The high resolution images which you sometimes get in Europe re-transmitted from GOES or Meteosat require much more sophisticated gear, running into megabucks. If you need any more information re the guys in Oz, sent me a message and I might be able to give you an E-mail address of at least one of them Cheers, Chris (thai@HK.Super.Net)
Date 27/11/96
Subject MacSat
From Kevin Gale
To wxsat
MacSat
Newcastle Computer Services PLC have released version 2.6ar5 of their
Macintosh based APT/WEFAX system MacSat II.
New features include:
1) The ability to create unlimited length QuickTime movies of geostationary
weather sequences
2) Improved Compatability with PowerMac/AV and Performa machines.
3) Improved printing to laserprinters (colour and black-and-white).
For more information on MacSat II or upgrades please contact your MacSat
dealer or email: MACSAT@APPLELINK.APPLE.COM
505 White Plains Road Tarrytown, New York 10591 phone: (914) 332-8566 fax: (914) 332-8626 email: satlab@computer.net The U.S. Satellite Laboratory, Inc. has provided educators with weather satellite imaging stations, creating innovative, real-world learning experiences for thousands of students from grades 3-12.
Shawn Terry shawn@aquilasys.com Aquila Systems Inc. 928 Old Colchester Rd. Oakdale, Ct 06370 USA We supply APT/WEFAX systems, satellite reception hardware, and powerful software for ingesting and doing extensive post-processing on APT, WEFAX, GVAR, and HRPT imagery.
Woodhouse Communication P.O. Box 73 Plainwell, MI 49080-0073 Voice: (616) 226-8873 Fax: (616) 226-9073 E-mail: view2earth@aol.com Woodhouse Communication is dedicated to the discipline of earth and atmosphere imaging. We manufacture hardware, publish books and magazines, and offer custom design and construction services for imaging facilities.
Subject: HRPT Suppliers
From: Paul Biba (paulbiba@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 23:31:32 GMT
Here is the original listing posted by Alistair Steyn-Ross, with a few
additions I caught on the board since the original postings.
Wxsat Ground Station Equipment Suppliers
========================================
1. Alternative information sources
2. Alphabetical list of suppliers of HRPT and related products
3. Acknowledgements
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1. Alternative information sources
==================================
NASA SeaWifs:
http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEAWIFS/ANNOUNCEMENTS/
930828_kirk_ground_stations
Contains a list of 15 suppliers of SeaWiFS-receiving equipment
(last updated: Aug 1993)
NOAA:
http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/EBB/post/manulst.asc
A rather complete list covering the full spectrum of wxsat-related
receiving equipment:
APT systems: 28 suppliers
HRPT systems: 22 suppliers
GOES Tap systems: 11 suppliers
GVAR systems: 3 suppliers
WEFAX systems: 6 suppliers
VISSR/VAS systems: 9 suppliers
METEORSAT systems: 2 suppliers
Software: 12 suppliers
(last updated: Mar 1995)
NOAA/NESDIS
Maintains a world-wide list of receiving station manufacturers
(unseen by this compiler)
Contact: Wayne Winston (wwinston@ssd.wwb.noaa.gov)
WMO: World Meteorological Organisation
Don Hinsman (hinsman@www.wmo.ch) at the WMO has a comprehensive
worldwide list.
(unseen by this compiler)
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2. Alphabetical list of suppliers of HRPT and related products
=========================================================
Array Systems Computing
1120 Finch Ave W., 8th floor,
North York
Ontario, M3J 3H7,
ph: (416)736-0900
= HRPT systems integration
British Aerospace - DARTCOM
FPC 333 - PO box 5
Filton
Bristol BS127QW - UK
tel 0272 366 379
fax 0272 366 819
Dartcom
Attn: John Lethbridge (Compuserve 10666,2334)
Powdermills, Postbridge
Yelverton, Devon, PL206SP
England
ph: +44 1822 880253
fax: +44 1822 880232
= HRPT / APT / Wefax
Data Tools Product
Attn: Andre Honig
10a, rue Kellerman
67300 STRASSBOURG-SCHILTIGHEIM
FRANCE
tel : (33) 3 88 19 99 96 fax : (33) 3 88 19 99 93
andre.honig@data-tools.com
http://wwww.data-tools.com
ftp://data-tools.com
Dundee Satellite Systems
8 Kilmany Road, Wormit, Fife, DD68PF
Scotland , UK
tel 44-382-307406
fax 44-382-27236 ( caution recent change in UK !! )
CGTI
35 rue Jean jaures BP20
95871 BEZON CEDEX
FRANCE
tel : (33) 1 34236200 fax : (33) 1 34236324
ICQ UIN: 12066009
ERIM
P.O. Box 134001
Ann Arbor, MI 48113-4001
ph: (313)994-1200
GLOBAL IMAGING, Inc.
Attn: (mguberek@globalimaging.com)
Suite 380
201 Lomas Santa Fe Drive
Solana Beach, CA 92075
ph: 619-481-5750
fax: 619-481-5794
toll free: 800-345-4624
= HRPT systems
GTI Electronics
Attn: (gtielect@postoffice.ptd.net)
1541 Fritz Valley Rd
Lehighton, PA 18235
Tel 717-386-4032
Fax 717-386-5063
= APT / WEFAX / HRPT / DMSP/ SeaWiFS / GOES-8 and 9 GVAR Multi-Tasking
IPS: Information Processing Systems
Attn: Bo Bjarno
70 Glenn Way
Belmont, CA 94002
ph: 425-592-1742
fax: 415-592-3544
= GOES / TIROS / Meteorsat / DMSP / GMS
Morcom International, Inc.
14210-B Sullyfield Circle
Chantilly, Virginia 20151
USA
Phone: (703)263-9305
Fax: (703)263-9308
Email: info@morcom.com
Web: www.morcom.com
NERC Satellite Station
University of Dundee
Dundee, Scotland DD1 4HN
Telephone: 0382-307406
http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/
OFS WeatherFax
Attn: Jerry Dahl (jdahl@nando.net)
fax: 919-847-4545
= Wefax / APT
ORLEV Scientific Computing, Ltd.
New Industrial Area
P.O.B. 68,
Yavne 70650, Israel
Telephone: 972-8-431615
Quorum Communications
Attn: Rick Fogle
8304 Esters Road
Suite 850
Irving, Texas 75063
ph: 214-915-0256
fax: 214-915-0270
= APT and HRPT
Satellite Data Systems
P O Box 219
Cleveland MN 56017
= APT
SeaSpace Corporation
Attn: Mrs. Hawley Sandfer (hawley@seaspace.com)
9240 Trade Pl., Ste. 100
San Diego, CA 92126
ph: (619) 578-4010
fax: (619) 578-3625
Internet: info@seaspace.com
World Wide Web: http://www.seaspace.com
= HRPT systems
SMARTech (Satellite Mapping And Resources Technologies)
Attn: Leslie S. Davis (ldavis@awod.com)
1725 Signal Point Road
Charleston, SC 29412
ph: 803-795-5621
fax: 803-795-5793
= HRPT systems
SWAGUR Enterprises
http://www.execpc.com/~swagur/
swagur@execpc.com.
= feed horns, Low Noise Amplifiers (LNA), Bias T s and Line amplifiers.
Systems West, Inc.
3239 Imjin Road
Marina, CA 93933-5109
Voice: 408-582-1050
Fax: 408-582-1056
E-mail: syswest@syswest.com
WWW: http://www.syswest.com
= HRPT and APT/ GOES GVAR/ GMS S-VISSR/ Meteosat PDUS/ Feng Yun2/ all WEFAX
Technitron
(no address avail.)
fax: 619-571-5909
= Antennas
Telonics
932 E. Impala Avenue
Mesa, AZ 85204-6699
ph: 602-892-4444
Attn: Dave Beaty
= HRPT turnkey systems
TimeStep Weather Systems
(A British company with a sales office in Massachussets.)
ph: 508-263-2145
fax: 440 82 0281
= APT and HRPT
VCS engineering GmbH
Borgmannstrasse 2
4630 Bochum 7 - GERMANY
tel 49-234-2390757
fax 49-234-2390711
= HRPT systems integration
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3. Acknowledgements
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Thanks to the following for helping with the compilation of this list:
Ted Barnes (srghejb@GIH.GRACE.CRI.NZ)
Tim Coffey (tpc@zippy.SAIC.COM)
Dominique Dagorne (Dominique.Dagorne@meteo.fr)
Jerry Dahl
Kevin Davis
Leslie Davis (ldavis@awod.com)
Jim Jordan (jordan@convax.iar.nrc.ca)
John Lethbridge
Stephen McNeill (mcneills@landcare.cri.nz)
Alistair Steyn-Ross (asr@frodo.colorado.edu)
Bill Ruggles
Hawley Sandfer (hawley@seaspace.com)
Brian Wannamaker (brian.wannamaker@canrem.com)
Wayne Winston (wwinston@ssd.wwb.noaa.gov)
paulbiba@worldnet.att.net
In addition:
Andrew Corporation 10500 W. 153rd Street Orland Park, Illinois 60462 USA 1-708-349-3300 Fax: 1-800-349-5444 e-mail on the web http://www.andrew.com/
Satellite Export and Engineering Attn: Cindy Ruff 702 Edgar Street PO Box 34 Marquette, IA 52158 319-873-2526 Fax: 319-873-2527 cruff@mhtc.net
Bob's Satellite Specialists Attn: Bob Cato 611 South Main Street Bellevue, Michigan 49021 616-763-3355 Fax: 616-763-3566 bobsat@voyager.net http://www.bobs-satellite.com/
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 07:25:10 -0400 From: "Warren F. Dorsey" <wdorsey@nesdis.noaa.gov> Subject: Re: GOES Satellite Transmitters Are you asking for the S-bnd XMTR's. There are only two of recent date and one of these is presently building our new ones. Our S-band manufacturer's are: 1. COMTECH Microwave Corp. 105 Baylis Road Melville, New York 11747 They also make the solid state command XMTR for the new 13M POES antennas 2. NEXCOM, Inc. and RSI (formerely PTI) 4343 Fortune Pl. Unit C Melbourne, FL 32904 RSI/PTI Model 2100KS 709 Anchors Street, N.W. Fort Walton Beach, FL 32548 We also have some old Enterprise Electronic corp. S band XMTR's that will be phased out when the new NEXCOM/RSI units are installed. The older units by EEC and Comtech XMTRs used a Varian Tube Model number 7795A-D. The new XMTR units will use a Thompson 2451D.
Attn: Dr. Frank J. ¯ynes (frank@spacetec.no) Kongsberg Spacetec a.s Prestvannv. 38 N-9292 Troms¿, Norway ph: +47 77660800 fax: +47 77655859 Internet: http://www.spacetec.no/ = Meteorological systems and complete ground stations
Additional Satellite Information
WMO Vendor Search
AMSAT Home Page
Satellite Tracking Resources
T.S. Kelso's CelesTrak site for 2-line orbital elements
Software Systems Consulting
Satellite tracking programs
Amateur Radio Operator
NASA Orbital Information Group
Jonathan's Space Report
BrightSat by Goeff Chester
Expendable Launch Vehicles
Visual Satellite Observer's Home Page
The Global Positioning System (GPS)
NASA Spacelink - An Electronic Information System for Educators
NASA - JSC Digital Image Collection
NASA Shuttle Web