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20000202: Decoding archived data w/ DCUAIR

Patrick,

The dcuair decoder is built to look for FOS formatted WMO bulletins 
which have a certain control character sequence delimiting them.

Since your data does not have these, dcuair will not find any
bulletins to decode. Your options would be to create a
version of dc_gbul that could find the 604 bulletins-
or to preprocess the 604 file to fit a FOS transmission
format.

The last possibility would be to use the snrawd program from
Gempak 5.2.1 - but that still requires the bulletin to
end with ctrl-c. If you want to send me a data file, I could see if
this is a reasonable option...unfortunately, any limitations
of 5.2.1 would still exist therefore dropsonde and pibal
data won't be decoded.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support

On Mon, 31 Jan 100 address@hidden wrote:

> > 
> > 
> > We are trying to decode TTAA TTBB data from 1979 with DCUAIR using
> > 
> > 
> > 'dcuair -c 790225/1200 -p snmerg.pack -s snstns.tbl
> >                              790225upa.gem < 79022512_upa.wmo'
> > 
> > 
> > on a data with the FAA604 (WMO) format:
> > 
> > LBFMANLBF
> > 72562 TTAA  75121 72562 99929 10716 30004 00275 ///// ///// 
> > 85565 01158 31010 70089 09966 30021 50564 21162 33550 40725 
> > 31961 33565 30922 479// 34073 25040 573// 33085 20177 677// 
> > 32089 15355 601// 30556 10607 615// 30046 88999 77999 
> > LBFSGLLBF
> > 72562 TTBB  7512/ 72562 00929 10716 11922 06105 22911 00432 
> > 33906 02057 44900 01858 55879 00859 66800 03561 77765 05564 
> > 88750 06565 99650 13364 11631 12366 22628 11366 33610 10566 
> > 44600 11166 55552 15166 66550 15365 77474 23762 88462 23762 
> > 99450 25162 11352 39960 22350 401// 33338 423// 44329 429// 
> > 55197 675// 66189 647// 77187 613// 88183 605// 99175 609// 
> > 11174 611// 22155 593// 33143 607// 44131 643// 55125 623// 
> > 66122 611// 77104 601// 
> > 
> > to no avail:
> > 
> > DCUAIR[3386]: 000128/2251: Starting up.
> > DCUAIR[3386]: 000128/2251: [DC -9]  End of input data file.
> > DCUAIR[3386]: 000128/2251: Normal Termination.
> > DCUAIR[3386]: 000128/2251: Number of bulletins read and processed: 0
> > DCUAIR[3386]: 000128/2251: Shutting Down.
> >     
> > Any ideas?
> > 
> > pat
> > 
> 
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