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Jimmy Mejia Fernández wrote: > Hello Anne! > Thank you very much for your help. Now I have other question. > How I get AVN files? Do I have to change the pqact.conf file? > or is enought changing the ldmd.conf file in the way that Mr. Yoksas wrote > before? > > Thank you, > JImmy Hi Jimmy, First, you'll have to change your ldmd.conf file in order to get the data. Then, if you want to do something with the data, like file it or send it to a decoder, you'll have to modify your pqact.conf file. We have a web page that gives many examples for pqact.conf. It's also helpful for ldmd.conf as it gives feedtypes and patterns for many commonly requested products. Take a look at: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/gempak/tutorial/pqact/decoders.tbl. In that page, if you search on AVN, you'll find this: # AVN model output # Grid #201 N. Hemisphere 381km: ^Y.A... KWBC.*(/mAVN|/mSSIAVN) # Grid #202 CONUS 190km: ^Y.I... KWBC.*(/mAVN|/mSSIAVN) # Grid #203 Alaska 190km: ^Y.J... KWBC.*(/mAVN|/mSSIAVN) # Grid #211 CONUS 80km: ^Y.Q... KWBC.*(/mAVN|/mSSIAVN) # Grid #213 CONUS 95km: ^Y.H... KWBC.*(/mAVN|/mSSIAVN) # Select any/all grids desired from [QAIJH] #HRS ^[YZ].[QAIJH]... KWB. ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9]).*(/mAVN|/mSSIAVN) # PIPE decoders/dcgrib2 -d data/gempak/logs/dcgrib.log # -e GEMTBL=/home/gempak/NAWIPS/gempak/tables # # Global AVN (Spectral) Thinned grids # Grid octets I-P will be stitched togethir as a single global grid # #HRS ^H.[I-P]... KWB. ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9]).* # PIPE decoders/dcgrib2 -d data/gempak/logs/dcgrib.log # -e GEMTBL=/home/gempak/NAWIPS/gempak/tables # data/gempak/hds/YYYYMMDDHH_thin.gem Although these examples are for pqact.conf, you can use these as models for what to put in both your ldmd.conf and your pqact.conf files. Notice that you can't quite use them directly in pqact.conf - they are commented out, and for pqact.conf you must ensure that fields are separated by tabs, not spaces. Hope this helps. Let me know if you have further questions. Anne -- *************************************************** Anne Wilson UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden P.O. Box 3000 Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------- Unidata WWW server http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ****************************************************