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Registration Form – document EUM/OPS-MSG/REG/01
I’ve received several
phone calls regarding filling in the EUMETSAT MSG Image Data Services
User Registration Form – document EUM/OPS-MSG/REG/01. [This
form is currently being updated but the above version should be
used till we obtain the new version.]
The problems mainly arise
since there is not a box for ‘amateur’ user and several
service options to tick. So, here is a guide to filling in the form
which can be downloaded below.
Box A.1, A.2 and A.3 User Information.
All self explanatory – for most users only box A.1 will apply.If
you are a RIG member I suggest that you put (RIG) in brackets in
‘Organisation (if applicable)’.
Box
B.1 Service Options.
Tick the first two boxes - The HRIT Image Data Service and The LRIT
Data Service. Both (Direct Reception). This will register you for
the 12 channel high resolution _ hourly service and the 5 channel
low resolution _ hourly service which contains the foreign satellite
imaging – GOES E and W – VIS. WV. IR. GMS/MT-SAT –
VIS. WV. IR. Met-5 VIS. WV. IR.
Box
B.2 Data Frequency.
Tick the first two boxes – _ hourly data transmission and
_ hourly data transmission.
Box
B.3.1 User Category.
Tick the top box – End User and the last box Other and put
in the (please specify) box – ‘amateur home use, non
commercial.’
Box
B.2.3 Data Usage.
Put something like ‘amateur home, non commercial use for self
education.’
Box
B.4 Data Retransmission.
You must tick this box if you intend to ‘publish’ either
in print or on your private or company website or transmit images
via SSTV, etc, MSG-1 images and give a description in the box below.
[All MSG-1 images ‘published’ must carry and acknowledgement
to EUMETSAT, such as Copyright EUMETSAT 2003.]
Section
C: The Meteorological Data Distribution Service.
Leave this blank as we are not eligible for this service.
Section
D: Additional Information.
I hope this guide may have answered most queries though you will
see that 5 pages of Explanatory Notes come with the registration
form and there is a lot of information to digest. The User Service
Helpdesk at EUMETSAT are very efficient at answering queries so
you can either fill in this section or drop me an e-mail if you
require further assistance.
Might I suggest the steps
to setting up an MSG receiving system are:
1. Purchase the hardware
– dish 88cm recommended but many in UK and Europe are getting
good reception levels and data flow with 60 cm dishes.It remains
to be seen how heavy rain and wet snow will effect reception using
60 cm dishes during the winter. A good quality digital satellite
TV Universal LNB, and either a TechniSat SkyStar 2 PCI card (requires
installing inside your computer) or the SkyStar 2 USB Box which
just plugs into a USB port and doesn’t require installing
inside the computer. Both devices come with a CD-ROM of drivers
required to operate the cards – some of which you will need.
2. Register with EUMETSAT
for data access which will allow you (having been accepted) to purchase
the tq®-TELLICAST software required for downloading the EUMETCast
data service – which contains the MSG-1 data. This costs 60
Euro and currently will require a money transfer for this amount
via a UK bank or Building Society to EUMETSAT’s bank in Germany.
Details of this will be forwarded with their
Invoice.
3. Contact David Taylor
in order to purchase his MSG Data Manager software which you will
require for the display and manipulation of the images at http://www.satsignal.net
4. Please install the software
in accordance with the instructions supplied with the TELLICAST
and MSG Data Manager software and before you start do please read
EUMETSAT document EUM
TD 15 Issue 3 – EUMETCast - EUMETSAT’s Data distribution
System which is now supplied on the TELLICAST software CD-ROM
supplied by EUMETSAT and can also be found on the EUMETSAT website.
It contains useful information regarding setting up the TechniSat
card for data use and shows examples of the set up screens you should
expect to see.
5. March 2004 will see
the full encryption of the MSG-1, then called Meteosat-8, data.
An EKU, EUMETCast Key Unit will be required together with a little
additional software, at a cost of 40 Euro, to then decrypt the data.
This unit plugs into a USB port. Later in 2003 all those registered
for EUMETCast MSG data access, will be contacted by EUMETSAT regarding
purchase of the EKU and additional software.
6. Registered users will
eventually be issued with a license from their national Met. Office
detailing their user status and any charges – depending on
data usage – which might be applicable.
John
Tellick : 24-10-03
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