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Art, NWS was having trouble with NGM MOS today as noted in the bulletins below regarding the 00Z run. The 12Z run did have the $ character in front of the station ID as you mention, so looks like problems still exist but I have not seen additional information. The NWS data management web based customer support inquiry form: -------------------------------------------------------------------- The NOAA's National Weather Service has a Web Based Customer Relationship Management System that responds to customers' needs for information. The URL address for our CRM System is listed below. http://help.nws.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/doit.cgi?201~-506,,,,1:467:1 Thank you for using our CRM System. Julie Hayes Family of Services Program Manager Work 301-713-0880 ext. 120 - Monday-Thursday Work 240-393-3339 - Fridays Fax 301-713-1409 Cell 240-393-3339 DOC/NOAA/NWS/CIO11 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOUS42 KWNO 090738 ADMNFD SPECIAL NCEP DISCUSSION CENTRAL OPERATIONS/NCEP/NWS/WASHINGTON DC 0730 UTC WED NOV 09 2005 09/0730Z...NGM MOS GUIDANCE...THE 9/00Z NGM MOS GUIDANCE WAS PREPARED AT NCEP AND SENT TO THE GATEWAY. HOWEVER...IT LOOKS LIKE SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTATIONS MADE TODAY ARE PREVENTING THE GATEWAY FROM PARSING THE BULLETINS PROPERLY. A FEW OF THE FWC/FOUS14 BULLETINS WERE ULTIMATELY TRANSMITTED TO END USERS BUT MOST WERE NOT. WILL NEED TO GET THE SUPPORT STAFFS OF NCEP AND GATEWAY TO WORK ON THIS PROBLEM. KNEAS/SDM/NCO/NCEP NNNN 895 NOUS42 KWNO 090824 ADMNFD SPECIAL NCEP DISCUSSION CENTRAL OPERATIONS/NCEP/NWS/WASHINGTON DC 0820 UTC WED NOV 09 2005 09/0820Z...NGM MOS GUIDANCE FROM THE 9/00Z CYCLE IS NOW AVAILABLE. THE NCEP PRODUCTION ANALYST BACKED OUT OF THE SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTATION MADE EARLIER TODAY. A RERUN OF THE IBM PRODUCTION JOB THEN PRODUCED THE NGM FWC/FOUS14 BULLETINS. KNEAS/SDM/NCO/NCEP NNNN Steve Chiswell Unidata User Support On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 10:01, Arthur A. Person wrote: > Hi... > > It looks like the NWS may have introduced an unwanted "$" sign in front of > the station codes in the NGM MOS bulletins (FOUS14) begining Tuesday which > is breaking the gempak decoder. Anyone else seeing this? If so, how do > we report it to the NWS to get it fixed (assuming it's really not supposed > to be there!)? > > Art. > > Arthur A. Person > Research Assistant, System Administrator > Penn State Department of Meteorology > email: address@hidden, phone: 814-863-1563