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Request in for floater......

#1 Postby dixiebreeze » Thu Jul 28, 2005 8:25 am

to be refocused on 92L Invest. Hope they change it soon.
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Re: Request in for floater......

#2 Postby WeatherEmperor » Thu Jul 28, 2005 9:04 am

dixiebreeze wrote:to be refocused on 92L Invest. Hope they change it soon.


tell me dixiebreeze. how come when you request a floater to be changed, they do it almost instantly but when I do so, they ignore me? :cry:

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#3 Postby dixiebreeze » Thu Jul 28, 2005 9:15 am

:lol: It's not always that instant, I'm afraid. But I like to get the request in as early as possible.
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#4 Postby wxcrazytwo » Thu Jul 28, 2005 9:29 am

How do you do that anyways?
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Re: Request in for floater......

#5 Postby wx247 » Thu Jul 28, 2005 11:33 am

dixiebreeze wrote:to be refocused on 92L Invest. Hope they change it soon.


When dixiebreeze speaks, people listen. :wink:
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#6 Postby HurricaneQueen » Thu Jul 28, 2005 11:46 am

'Cause she's better looking than you???? :wink:
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#7 Postby Agua » Thu Jul 28, 2005 11:51 am

HurricaneQueen wrote:'Cause she's better looking than you???? :wink:

That'd be my best guess.
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#8 Postby Hurricaneman » Thu Jul 28, 2005 11:54 am

Because he is a good talker
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#9 Postby Trader Ron » Thu Jul 28, 2005 11:57 am

wx247 wrote:
dixiebreeze wrote:to be refocused on 92L Invest. Hope they change it soon.


When dixiebreeze speaks, people listen. :wink:


Dixie has lot's of Clout, so beware. :lol: :lol:
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#10 Postby jasons2k » Thu Jul 28, 2005 11:57 am

OK, I feel dumb. I'm not a newbie but I'm clueless here. I've seen these "request to move floater" posts for years and always wondered what is going on. I thought it was pretty inconceivable for a civilian to request a change in a satellite's orbital location. Am I missing something?
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#11 Postby dixiebreeze » Thu Jul 28, 2005 12:46 pm

Looks like I'm not so lucky today, but maybe they're waiting until Invest 92 is past 40
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#12 Postby Thunder44 » Thu Jul 28, 2005 12:50 pm

dixiebreeze wrote:Looks like I'm not so lucky today, but maybe they're waiting until Invest 92 is past 40


It's already past 50W. Anybody can email them to change the floater, but how long it takes for them to do it, is pretty much anyone's guess.
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#13 Postby jasons2k » Thu Jul 28, 2005 1:02 pm

Thunder44 wrote:
dixiebreeze wrote:Looks like I'm not so lucky today, but maybe they're waiting until Invest 92 is past 40


It's already past 50W. Anybody can email them to change the floater, but how long it takes for them to do it, is pretty much anyone's guess.


OK, would someone in the know, or Dixiebreeze, please clarify what this process is? Who is getting emailed? Are they actually moving a satellite in orbit based on a civilian email request? I'm just asking...I know it's EXPENSIVE to move satellites around and it just bemuses me how someone can send an email to NASA or the NWS or whomever and ask to move a floater around. An explanation is much appreciated (and it looks like others are wondering the same thing). Thanks so much!
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#14 Postby Pebbles » Thu Jul 28, 2005 1:17 pm

LOL it's a joke guys and gals. I do it once in a blue moon too. Make a post about changing the floaters. I don't expect them to do that but it's funny if it happens shortly after my 'request' on the boards. You never know... maybe someone reads the boards.

There was the one time last year (without rehashing the whole story people) when a false recon vortex got around with unbelievable speed showing a rapidly intensifying hurricane, cant remember which one off hand, but the information was shown seconds later on the weather channel LOL before it was realized this was indeed false info. Some nit was playing a joke (on another site and the info happen to get here then to TWC) and some of us wondered if the weather channel was reading these boards.
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#15 Postby gkrangers » Thu Jul 28, 2005 1:19 pm

It was Ivan...190+ knot FL winds if I remember correctly..with spectacular stadium effect in the middle of the night..
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#16 Postby jasons2k » Thu Jul 28, 2005 1:20 pm

Pebbles wrote:LOL it's a joke guys and gals. I do it once in a blue moon too. Make a post about changing the floaters. I don't expect them to do that but it's funny if it happens shortly after my 'request' on the boards. You never know... maybe someone reads the boards.

There was the one time last year (without rehashing the whole story people) when a false recon vortex got around with unbelievable speed showing a rapidly intensifying hurricane, cant remember which one off hand, but the information was shown seconds later on the weather channel LOL before it was realized this was indeed false info. Some nit was playing a joke (on another site and the info happen to get here then to TWC) and some of us wondered if the weather channel was reading these boards.


Ahhhhhhhhhh. Thanks Pebbles!!! Been haunting me for years b/c it never made sense.

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#17 Postby artist » Thu Jul 28, 2005 1:20 pm

plus all that is being requested is the image be recentered NOT for them to move the satellite!
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#18 Postby dixiebreeze » Thu Jul 28, 2005 1:22 pm

jschlitz wrote:
Thunder44 wrote:
dixiebreeze wrote:Looks like I'm not so lucky today, but maybe they're waiting until Invest 92 is past 40


It's already past 50W. Anybody can email them to change the floater, but how long it takes for them to do it, is pretty much anyone's guess.


OK, would someone in the know, or Dixiebreeze, please clarify what this process is? Who is getting emailed? Are they actually moving a satellite in orbit based on a civilian email request? I'm just asking...I know it's EXPENSIVE to move satellites around and it just bemuses me how someone can send an email to NASA or the NWS or whomever and ask to move a floater around. An explanation is much appreciated (and it looks like others are wondering the same thing). Thanks so much!


It's not really a big mystery. I did have a personal contact at Camp Springs, Md., but he is no longer there and it's pot luck re: the contacts. When Brian was there, the response was almost instantaneous.
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#19 Postby jasons2k » Thu Jul 28, 2005 1:25 pm

Thanks Dixie!
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#20 Postby Derecho » Thu Jul 28, 2005 1:34 pm

I'm always a bit mystified with the obsesssion over "changing the floater" when GHCC works perfectly well and you zoom it yourself.

http://wwwghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/GOES/
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