RE: dcmetr issue

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• Subject: RE: dcmetr issue
• From: "Ray Weber" <weather@xxxxxxxx>
• Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 11:30:17 -0400

Put the entry into pqact.conf with a few mods,
and indeed, its up and running.

Thanks much.

Ray


rote:
> 
> > Trying to get dcmetr to write a file for gempak.
> >
> > Have the ldm set up OK, and the ldm creates text files fine.
> >
> > dcmetr never creates an output file.
> >
> > Here are the pqsurf.conf entries:
> >
> > # IDS|DDPLUS    ^S[AP].* .... ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9])
> > #       FILE    /home/mcidas/data/metar/METAR\3\4
> > IDS|DDPLUS      ^speci (....) ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9])
> >         FILE    /home/mcidas/data/metar/METARSP\3\4
> > IDS|DDPLUS      ^metar (....) ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9])
> >         PIPE    /home/ldm/decoders/dcmetr -b 9 -m 72
> >         -s /home/gempak/GEMPAK5.6/tables/sfmetar_sa.tbl
> >         -d /home/gempak/dcmetr.log
> >         -e /home/gempak/GEMPAK5.6/gempak/tables
> >         -p /home/gempak/GEMPAK5.6/gempak/tables/pack/metar.pack
> >         /home/mcidas/data/metar/YYYYMMDD_sao.gem
> 
> Ray,
> 
> I'm guessing the problem may have something to do with the fact that
> you're trying to create the gempak file out of the split pqsurf output,
> rather than the 'raw' metars from the data feed.  Here is what I use (from
> pqact.conf):
> 
> #
> # sfc obs and specials
> # Use -m 72 to store data in 20 minute bins, rather than hourly.
> # 20 minute bins useful for mesonet and AWOS data
> #
> DDS|IDS       ^S[AP].* .... ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9])
>       PIPE    /weather/gempak/bin/sol/dcmetr -b 9 -m 72 -s sfmetar_sa.tbl
>       -d data/gempak/logs/dcmetr.log
>       -e GEMTBL=/weather/NAWIPS/gempak/tables
>       data/gempak/surface/YYYYMMDD_sao.gem
> #
> 
> In fact, the the -help option for dcmetr states:
> 
>      DCMETR decodes raw SAO and METAR reports from a real-time data
>      feed, or from a file fed to the program through standard input, and
>      writes the data to a GEMPAK surface file.
> 
> Tom
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Tom McDermott                         Email: tmcderm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Systems Administrator                 Phone: (585) 395-5718
> Earth Sciences Dept.                  Fax: (585) 395-2416
> SUNY College at Brockport
> 
> 
> 
> > Note that the top 2 commented entries  worked, and wrote to the same 
> > directory that
> > dcmetr should, so its not a permissions issue.
> >
> >
> > This is the dcmetr log:
> >
> > [10610] 030710/0921 [DC 3]
> > [10610] 030710/0921 [DCMETR 7] 3.3
> > [10610] 030710/0921 [IN -11] metar.pack
> > [10610] 030710/0921 [DC 2] read 2598/16383 bytes strt 0 newstrt 2598
> > [10610] 030710/0921 [DC 2] read 401/13785 bytes strt 2598 newstrt 2999
> > [10610] 030710/0922 [DC 2] read 1751/13384 bytes strt 2999 newstrt 4750
> > [10610] 030710/0923 [DC 2] read 1914/11633 bytes strt 4750 newstrt 6664
> > [10610] 030710/0924 [DC 2] read 2914/9719 bytes strt 6664 newstrt 9578
> >
> 
> 

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