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19990409: Re[6]: ACARS data

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  • Subject: 19990409: Re[6]: ACARS data
  • Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 12:40:56 -0600
Greg,

I have not put together a tarfile yet. I will let you know when I have
posted it.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User SUpport

On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Gregory Grosshans wrote:

>      Steve,
>      
>      I requested access to the ACARS data from FSL via LDM and Bill Moniger 
>      replied saying that we will be able to access the data.  However, Bill
>      said that it would be about 6 weeks before they are ready to send the 
>      data via LDM.  Apparently they will do this after they move to the new 
>      building.
>      
>      Can you let me know when and where I can grab the programs to decode 
>      and display the ACARS data?
>      
>      Thanks,
> Gregg
> ______________________________ Reply Separator 
> _________________________________
> Subject: Re: Re[4]: ACARS data
> Author:  Steve Chiswell <address@hidden> at NSSLGATE
> Date:    4/7/1999 1:26 PM
> 
> 
> Greg,
> they are moving to a new building at the moment. 
> I assume that they will start feeding the data soon- but in 
> the meantime I started grabbing the hourly files from their 
> WWW site.
>      
> I use the follwing script to grab data from their www page using the 
> get_acars.pl script they provide on the WWW page, and the GET perl 
> program.
>      
> #!/bin/csh -f
>      
> source /home/gempak/Gemenviron
>      
>      
> $ACARS/get_acars.pl | dcacars -v \
>    -e GEMTBL=/home/gempak/NAWIPS-5.4/gempak5.4/tables -l acars.log \ 
>    $GEMDATA/acars/YYMMDDHH_acars.gem
>      
>      
>      
> With the above script, I just pipe the netcdf file from the perl download 
> striaght to dcacars. When we start getting the CDF files via LDM, then 
> I'll just PIPE the file to dcacars.
>      
> When they start feeding via their LDM, then the data will be every 10 
> minutes, rather than having to wait until each hour is completed on the 
> www.
>      
> I'll pass your message to Linda Miller to see if she has any more 
> information on an LDM timetable.
>      
> Steve Chiswell
> Unidata User Support
>      
>