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[LDM #VHT-836868]: WMO Headers: broken links

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  • Subject: [LDM #VHT-836868]: WMO Headers: broken links
  • Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2009 12:42:26 -0600
Dave,

> I'm in the process of reconstructing my pqact.conf file after a
> software failure several weeks ago, and I'm trying to find information
> about WMO headers for products in various data feeds, including those
> in the WMO group of feeds (IDS, PPS, etc.). Unfortunately, all of the
> links to the header information in the document at 
> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/ldm/ldm-current/basics/feedtypes/public_bulletins.html
> are broken. In limited searching, I haven't yet found where NOAA
> might now be hiding this information.
> 
> In Russ Rews' document 
> "http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/russ/met-standards.html
> ", there's a section called "WMO Headers", but the first link there,
> tantalizingly called "Bulletin headers catalog", prompts me for a
> login user and password. (My unidata user name and password don't work
> for this, though at one point I think Unidata's server let me look at
> the directory for some reason and--if that's what I actually saw--it
> looked empty.) Another link under the same heading, "WMO Abbreviated
> Heading Decoder", is broken, as are the several other links that I
> tried in Russ' document.
> 
> Maybe it's just me and I'm just missing something, but NOAA seems to
> be making this harder than it should be!

Yeah.  Disappearing third-party hyperlink targets are a Real Pain.

We'll do what we can and let you know.

> -- Dave

Regards,
Steve Emmerson

Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: VHT-836868
Department: Support LDM
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed