Radar Coded Messages

[Tim Alberta <alberta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Does anyone know why, at 00Z, the radar coded message (MDRadar), instead
of providing the 00Z image, retransmits the 23Z image?  And why the real
00Z image never appears?  I think the 01 and 02Z RCMs are also absent
most of the time, but what we're really looking for is 00Z.

This is what I see on ldmwatch:

Oct 29 23:06:27...MCIDAS 000  pnga2area Q1 U3 204 GRAPHICS UNKBAND 5km
20011029 2259

at 2306Z, and 

Oct 30 00:06:15...MCIDAS 000  pnga2area Q1 U3 205 GRAPHICS UNKBAND 5km
20011029 2259

at 0006Z.

My pqact.conf entry looks like

MCIDAS  ^pnga2area Q. (..) (.. )        FILE    -close  /tmp/rawarea.0\2
MCIDAS  ^pnga2area Q. (..) (.. )        EXEC    /pub/ldm/bin2/mvarea1.pl -l
/tmp/rawarea.0\2
         
MCIDAS  ^pnga2area Q. (..) (... )       FILE    -close  /tmp/rawarea.\2
MCIDAS  ^pnga2area Q. (..) (... )       EXEC    /pub/ldm/bin2/mvarea1.pl -l
/tmp/rawarea.\2

and to verify, gif images of the two products (23Z and 00Z) are
identical. 

Any insight would be appreciated!

Thanks,

Tim Alberta