On Tue, 21 Dec 2010, Gilbert Sebenste wrote:
NOAAport is back to it's usual power. But there's something different about
the signal now. While my signal strength hasn't changed,
right at 30 dBm and 90% signal "strength" on my Novra S200...the broadcast is
"cleaner" by at least 2 dB.
There's a good reason for that: they haven't lowered the power yet!
We had a snowstorm here, followed by dense fog and freezing drizzle. THAT
lowered my signal level by 4 dB. When we had clear skies come in right
around 10 PM-midnight CT (4Z-6Z), look what happened to my signal:
http://noaaport.admin.niu.edu:8025/
Yep (red face), it went right back up to what it was before. No wonder why
COD was still getting a perfect signal with a 3.0 meter dish even with
dense fog...NWS said they turned down the power back down last
night, at the same time we had our snowstorm and fog. Well, at least all
my data stayed up during that event.
And had the incoming signal level not been this high, I imagine I would
have lost data. I know it's just a matter of time before they turn the
power down...but I wish this would be permanent.
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