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Re: pqact.conf: output METAR in individual station files?

Christian Page wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I want to put METAR reports in individual (text) station files, e.g. have one
> file for each station reporting a METAR (or SPECI). Is it possible? Or does
> anybody have written a script or a program to do that?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Christian Page
> UQAM


Peter Neilley wrote:
> 
> Christian,
> 
>   Use the pqsurf utility already in the LDM.  This breaks up bulletins 
> containing
> METARs into individual "bulletins", one "bulletin" per METAR.  You can then
> FILE the metars by ICAO ID.
> 
> To do this,  add a line like this to you ldmd.conf file
> 
>    exec    "pqsurf -p ^(S[APX]) -Q /home/ldm/data/pqsurf.pq -d /home/ldm 
> /home/ldm/etc/pqsurf.conf"
> 
> and then create a pqsurf.conf file that has an entry something like:
> 
>    WMO     ^(metar|speci) (....) ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9])  FILE  
> /home/ldm/data/(\3:yyyy)(\3:mm)\3\4.\2.metar
> 
> Which creates files named <YYYYMMDD>.<ICAO>.metar.
> 
> You will need to create a pqsurf product queue using "ldmadmin mksurfqueue".
> 
> Peter Neilley
> WSI
> 

Christian Page wrote:
> 
> Thanks a lot, it seems to work great!
> 
> Christian Page
> UQAM
> 

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>From address@hidden Wed Jul 25 00:12:35 2001
>To: Robb Kambic <address@hidden>
>cc: <address@hidden>, Peter Neilley <address@hidden>,
>   decoders <address@hidden>
>Subject: Re: 20010723: Re: pqact.conf: output METAR in individual station 
>files?


Hi,

I fixed the problem when I upgraded to ldm-5.1.4. I was at ldm-5.1.2.
Thanks!


Christian Page
UQAM