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Art, I believe that shefstns.tbl only has stations through G.... (COMET had a 3700 station table limit) so that is probably the problem with only getting stations part of the way through the alphabet. There should be a table in $NAWIPS/comet/dcshef/shef_ncdc.tbl.orig that has 9915 stations (through the letter Z.....). Our version defines the maximum number of stations as 9800. I have another table I use for Colorado in $GEMTBL/stns/shefstns_unidata.tbl that has 4236 stations for just our area - so there are far greater than the 9,800 station table limit. My problem is tracking down many of the locations for shef sites without a true master list from the weather service. In terms of shef patterns, we added the pil identifiers, so it might be easier to use a pattern line that matches on the /pRR... for the pil that you need. Steve Chiswell >From: "Arthur A. Person" <address@hidden> >Organization: . >Keywords: 199909141454.IAA00675 >Hi... > >Can you tell me what the proper entry in pqact.conf is for decoding shef >data with dcshef? I'm using the following guess but only seem to get >stations partway through the alphabet (whatever sense that makes): > ># ># SHEF reports ># >DDS|IDS ^(S[RX]|R[WG]|CS|AB)...* .... ([0-3][0-9]) > PIPE /opt1/gempak/NAWIPS/bin/sol/dcshef -v 1 -b 36 -m 96 > -d data/gempak/logs/dcshef.log > -p /opt1/gempak/NAWIPS/gempak5.4/tables/pack/shef.pack > -s /opt1/gempak/NAWIPS/gempak5.4/tables/stns/shefstns.tbl > data/gempak/surface/YYMMDD_shef.gem > > > Thanks. > > Art. > >Arthur A. Person >Research Assistant, System Administrator >Penn State Department of Meteorology >email: address@hidden, phone: 814-863-1563 >