Re: [data-curation] Location details of KVGN and KTQS

• To: Bruce Hebbard - NOAA Federal <bruce.hebbard@xxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: [data-curation] Location details of KVGN and KTQS
• From: "Boris A. Konon" <trwplusa@xxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2024 09:57:01 -0500

Here is the location information I got from a Dailly NFDD last year.

KTQS               34:38N  120:37W   34m
KVGN               34:51N  120:36W   93m

Boris

On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 3:59 PM Bruce Hebbard - NOAA Federal via
data-curation <data-curation@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> And I'll be happy to share said gold star with my NWS colleague Ken
> Boutin, ASOS Program Manager, who kindly checked with the FAA, and
> determined...
>
>   KTQS -- “Southern Weather System site on Vandenberg Space Force Base
> (KVBG)”
>   KVGN -- “Northern Weather System site on Vandenberg Space Force Base
> (KVBG)”
>
> (Sorry, don't have more specific latitude/longitude/elevation at this
> time.  FWIW, these are coming in under WMO header SAUS14 KAWN [AFWA, now
> 557th Weather Wing].)
>
> Cheers,
> Bruce
> --
> Bruce Hebbard
> IT Specialist  -  Software Developer
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>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 9:31 AM Herzmann, Daryl E [AGRON] <
> akrherz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Howdy all,
>>
>> I'd be happy to give a gold star to any kind soul that knows the location
>> details of these two new METAR sites!
>>
>> https://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/observations/metar/stations/KVGN.TXT
>>
>> https://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/observations/metar/stations/KTQS.TXT
>>
>> daryl
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  • [data-curation] Location details of KVGN and KTQS
    • From: Herzmann, Daryl E [AGRON]
  • Re: [data-curation] Location details of KVGN and KTQS
    • From: Bruce Hebbard - NOAA Federal