The diagram above shows the configuration of hardware we have used on our test system based in the UK.

Receiving PC

This is a standard Windows 10 desktop machine with the TBS 6903 card installed. One of the ports on the TBS card is connected to the C Band antenna via coaxial cable. This machine also has the EKU decryption key plugged in and the Tellicast software installed from EumetCAST.

NWCSAF PC

This is a Centos 7 Linux machine. This machine is responsible for uncompressing the raw data and processing it with SAFNWC.

Python Plotting PC

This machine uses the netcdf files produced by NWCSAF and uses python to create plots from them.

N.b. This process could be carried out on the other linux PC if it was suitably powerful enough but we have chosen to separate the two stages.