****************************************************************************** dorisreport 27-Jul-2007 13:48:11 Message No 0945 ****************************************************************************** Author: "Tavernier Gilles" Subject: Punta Delgada / PDMB lack of measurements Dear colleagues, As you can seen from the Performance plots on the IDS website (http://ids.cls.fr/html/doris/moe.php3), there has been a lack of measurements with the station of Punta Delgada for months: - the beacon was stopped on December, 17th 2006 (2 GHz failure) - a new beacon was installed and started on April 3rd, 2007, stopped on April 4th and restarted on April 13th. - the beacon is operated in nominal mode (RS=0) since April 24th. - since then, although the transmitted power was nominal on both channels, the 400 MHz received power is low. This may be related to connection problems and involves a lack of measurements. - we currently try to improve the situation with the help of the local host agency. - we hope that the station will transmit again in a near future. We apoligize for the trouble and we will keep your informed of the status of the station. As mentinoned above, the Performance plots on the IDS website (http://ids.cls.fr/html/doris/moe.php3) can help to check the status of a station. We will try to improve these plots so as to indicate more precisely the dates. We will also try to better report, through this forum, about station problems inducing lacks of measurements. Best regards, Gilles TAVERNIER _____________________________________________________ CNES DCT/PO/AL - Bpi 2002 Phone : 33 - (0)5 61 27 37 76 18, avenue Edouard Belin Fax : 33 - (0)5 61 28 25 95 31 401 TOULOUSE CEDEX 9 Email : Gilles.Tavernier@cnes.fr _____________________________________________________ Please do not reply directly to this message, but send comments and suggestions to IDS.central.bureau@cls.fr