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NWS Melborne Radar...

#1 Postby Phoenix78 » Fri Jul 21, 2006 10:13 am

...has been on the fritz the last two days - anybody have an update on when we can expect it back?

...Alan
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#2 Postby chris_fit » Fri Jul 21, 2006 10:50 am

I know!!! It's down more than any other radar that I know of! I live like 5 min away from it and see it everyday. I'm going to throw my shoe at it tomorrow if it's not up yet....hehe :grrr: :grrr:
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#3 Postby WindRunner » Fri Jul 21, 2006 10:53 am

According to this, they're having some problems:

FTMMLB
Message Date: Jul 21 2006 06:36:13
THE KMLB 88D HAS BECOME INOPERABLE DUE TO A PEDESTAL ERROR. REPAIRS WILL NOT BE
ATTEMPTED UNTIL OUR ELECTRONIC TECHNICIANS ARRIVE ON SITE AT 7 AM.
NOUS62 KMLB 210636



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Message Date: Jul 21 2006 13:44:32
TO ALL USERS OF KMLB WSR-88D: THE RADAR CONTINUES TO BE OTS WHILE AWAITING REPL
ACEMENT PARTS. ESTIMATED TIME FOR RETURN TO SERVICE IS LATE AFTERNOON /EARLY EV
ENING (AT THE EARLIEST.) WE APOLOGIZE FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR
PATIENCE. JRC
NOUS62 KMLB 211344


Another message on the site was from yesterday afternoon saying something about returning to service, but not saying why they were down. So hopefully they'll be back later today.
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#4 Postby Steve H. » Fri Jul 21, 2006 11:01 am

They took a pretty good lightning strike a couple days ago. I saw it in the paper :roll:
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#5 Postby Phoenix78 » Fri Jul 21, 2006 11:57 am

Thanks for the responses, folks - I hope they're not using DHL.

I knew I could count on the Forum to get to the bottom of this! :D

...Alan
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#6 Postby TampaFl » Fri Jul 21, 2006 4:00 pm

NWS MLB radar appears to be up and working again :D

As you can see in the loop it jumps in time from 7/20/06 to 7/21/06.


http://www.sfwmd.gov/org/omd/ops/weather/radmlb.html



Robert 8-)
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