20001101: RUC problem

>From: address@hidden (William Gallus)
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200011011717.eA1HH1417864

>Hello,
>
>I believe Geff emailed you last week about a problem with our RUC data.
>For no apparent reason, 2 weeks ago, our RUC output has been coming in
>each hour with just partial files.  Each file is very close to 925K
>in size, with only a subset of the 00hr files.  (Normally, the 3-hr
>forecasts were about 1.8Mg in size and the 12 hr forecasts more like 8 Mg).
>
>We haven't heard anything from our upstream site (after emailing them twice).
>Our Eta and AVN data (and others) have been fine.  It is very annoying that
>we've now gone 2 weeks without any real RUC data.  Any ideas of what could
>be wrong?
>
>Bill
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Bill,

Check your pqact.conf pattern. The RUC is using both KWBC (for analysis grids)
and KWBG for forecast grids:

eg
5768 20001110161651.606     HDS 551  YUQA86 KWBC 101500 /mRUC
5768 20001110161651.618     HDS 552  YVQA86 KWBC 101500 /mRUC
5768 20001110161651.656     HDS 554  YVQA86 KWBC 101500 /mRUC
5768 20001110161651.698     HDS 556  YTQA86 KWBC 101500 /mRUC
7392 20001110161652.235     HDS 573  YHQA93 KWBC 101500 /mRUC
5768 20001110161652.241     HDS 574  YUQA98 KWBC 101500 /mRUC
5768 20001110161652.244     HDS 575  YVQA98 KWBC 101500 /mRUC
4684 20001110161656.252     HDS 576  YRQA98 KWBC 101500 /mRUC
6308 20001110161656.259     HDS 578  YTQA98 KWBC 101500 /mRUC
7392 20001110162603.657     HDS 877  ZPQB98 KWBG 101500 /mRUC
5768 20001110162603.669     HDS 878  ZHQB99 KWBG 101500 /mRUC
6308 20001110162603.682     HDS 879  ZTQB99 KWBG 101500 /mRUC
4684 20001110162603.692     HDS 880  ZRQB99 KWBG 101500 /mRUC
5226 20001110162603.728     HDS 881  ZHQB95 KWBG 101500 /mRUC
5226 20001110162607.790     HDS 883  ZUQB99 KWBG 101500 /mRUC

If you aren't using KWB., then that could be the problem. Otherwise,
a suitable pattern would look like:
HRS     ^[YZ].*/pRUC

Steve Chiswell