RE: SAUS4* headers not being processed

Dan,

Thanks for the hint on surface reports. 

Just wanted you to know that the latest version of pqing has a -5 flag to
exclude the sequence number from the MD5 checksum calculations.  I think
using the -5 flag will permit products coming from different vendors s/w
to have the same checksum  results.  At this time we are not using the -5
flag but it will be implemented in the near future.

Robb...


On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Dan Vietor wrote:

> I'm having problems with the SAUS4x and SAUS5x products.  I think they
> may still be TEST but not labeled as such.  The big problem is
> intermixing SPECI and METAR reports.  There is no way to distinguish the
> two which is causing duplicate hourly reports.
> 
> I took a look at the SAUS43 KLOT and last hour there were only 2, each
> with a single METAR, one for KRFD and the other KORD.
> 
> >From what I can tell, these products contain METARs that are already in
> products such as SAUS70 and SAUS80 so I'm tempted to filter them out.
> 
> I'll continue to research this...
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> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: address@hidden
> > [mailto:address@hidden]On Behalf Of Gilbert Sebenste
> > Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 11:48 AM
> > To: Tom McDermott
> > Cc: Russ Rew; address@hidden; address@hidden;
> > address@hidden
> > Subject: Re: SAUS4* headers not being processed
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Tom McDermott wrote:
> >
> > > Interesting.  I don't seem to have any obs from KLOT or KCHI in my
> > > 'weather' program 'metar_gdb' files from as far back as
> > 07/31, well before
> > > 5.1.2b was installed.  So the problem may date back further and be
> > > unrelated to the new ldm.
> >
> > That is true. The LDM rejected any SAUS4* headers before
> > 5.011, according
> > to the file which lists all the updates. These were test
> > METARs, but now,
> > they're no longer stamped as such.
> >
> > >  Funny thing is, I also keep "flat" metar files,
> > > which do have KLOT and KCHI obs, but I can't find them
> > using the 'weather'
> > > program.
> >
> > I guess pqsurf still doesn't like the SAUS4* headers. Because
> > when I save
> > the METARs as raw files (not going through pqsurf), I do get
> > them as well.
> > BTW, outside of this, let me emphasize again...this beta
> > version is rock
> > stable, and I am noticing a performance increase on my
> > system...my load
> > average used to be right around .99, now it's .75 this
> > morning. Even late
> > last week, when there was much more precip on the radar, the
> > system was
> > running about 10%-20% less load than usual.
> >
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> 

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Robb Kambic                                Unidata Program Center
Software Engineer III                      Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
address@hidden             WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/
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