19990708: RAOBRPT not displaying all bulletins (cont.)

>From: "Robert R. Mullenax" <address@hidden>
>Organization: NMSU/NSBF
>Keywords: 199907011515.JAA15822 McIDAS RAOBRPT PPDD

Robert,

I chatted with Don about RAOBRPT not reporting all upper air groups
for some stations.  Don's comment was that this is probably due to
the number of slots that can be filled in the file where these data
are stored.  Currently, there are 7 slots which will allow for
TTAA, TTBB, TTCC, TTDD, PPAA, PPBB, and PPDD.  The problem is that
the decoder does not take into account whether or not one of these
groups has already been received, so all of the slots could be filled
by a subset of the groups.

In the listing for 71957 that you sent previously:

>>71957 TTCC 51121 71957 70872 46985 05515 50095 47185 08510
>>     30436 44186 10519 20710 39987 07021 10190 32989 08521
>>     88999 77999=
>>TTDD 5112/ 71957 11864 48384 22292 44586 33074 28791=
>>TTCC 51121 71957 70872 46985 05515 50095 47185 08510 30436
>>     44186 10519 20710 39987 07021 10190 32989 08521 88999
>>     77999=
>>TTAA 51121 71957 99006 05220 34005 00149 05213 34013 92782
>>     05261 33522 85473 05283 32017 70034 03172 33026 50562
>>     19169 00542 40724 30561 35540 30922 46958 35050 25040
>>     55957 35544 20182 53163 33534 15370 49184 00518 10636
>>     47385 03012 88218 59157 00539 77999=
>>PPBB 51125 71957 90012 34005 33519 33520 90345 33523 33019
>>     32017 90678 33517 33520 34022 909// 35523 91024 32528
>>     32528 35039 9169/ 35544 00549 92045 36045 35539 34041
>>     9279/ 35545 32546 93015 35050 35549 35044 9379/ 00539
>>     33534 94123 36027 32521 33515 94489 36017 35521 36020
>>     95013 02015 01511 02513=
>>TTBB 51125 71957 00006 05220 11974 03400 22960 02600 33953
>>     02431 44933 05059 55869 06085 66781 02088 77727 01169
>>     88688 04174 99674 05371 11669 05958 22631 10108 33627
>>     10546 44617 09368 55613 09371 66594 10360 77576 11170
>>     88502 18969 99434 25171 11356 37956 22342 39759 33265
>>     53757 44218 59157 55210 54759 66188 50170 77123 47985
>>     88115 49384 99101 47585 31313 46105 81115=
>>raobrpt.k: Done

You can see that there are two TTCC groups in the listing.  This is an
example _almost_ illustrating my comment above.  I say almost because
there are not 7 groups listed, only 6.  Why the PPDD group did not
make it into the RAP file is still a mystery.

Don's comment was that it would be best of us to push on SSEC to
get them to support decoding of observations above 100 mb.  This
way, they would have to worry about how well the decoder is doing
its job, not us.

Sorry that I don't have better news...

Tom