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Hello all! I am having issues using the DCMETR decoder, and knew this was the right place to ask for help. As I am not a university or institution of note, I am not using LDM or the IDD, and instead had the idea of maybe pulling data off of the NOAA ftp server at ftp://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/. I can successfully login via scripting, etc. I can cd to the ftp://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/SL.us008001/DF.an/DC.sflnd/DS.metar directory, which contains updated metar files. However, these are in a .txt format, and I'm not 100% sure if they are formatted the way DCMETR needs them to be as input files. I am rather new to this, but am learning quickly. I just need some data to play with! If anyone can tell me what I may be doing wrong, I would greatly appreciate it. Here are the commands I'm using once I have my file. dcmetr -c YYMMDD/HHNN sfcdata.gem < sn.0114.txt (the above command's general format I copied from the phelp file for dcmetr) dcmetr -c sfcdata.gem < sn.0114.txt dcmetr -c /home/gempak/NAWIPS/gempak/data/sfcdata.gem < /home/gempak/NAWIPS/gempak/data/sn.0114.txt As you can see, I try specifying explicitly and still, all dcmetr does is hang for about half a second, then put me back at the prompt. Nothing is generated as far as logs go, so I have no idea what's going on. I hope this is clear enough. Please help! -- Colton Ancell Geophysics Major, Texas Tech University. KE5DXX
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