[GreenKeys] Who Has A "Weather" Machine?

[Richard M. Gillingham]

The Weather (RE) typebox, as was used by the FAA, has a - in figs above the 
Blank.  The A has a 'South' (arrow pointed up) arrow in figs..

Best luck
Gil, W1RG

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "tony j. podrasky" <tony.podrasky at gmail.com>
To: "Green Keys" <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 9:49 AM
Subject: [GreenKeys] Who Has A "Weather" Machine?


> GM OMs;
>
> I'm working on a program that will convert METAR data into both weather
> symbols and abbreviations-to-English text.
>
> When done, I will make the program available to anyone who is
> interested. All you'll need is a Linux box - or a MS box that has
> a C compiler on it. And, of course, a way to send the ASCII file
> to the ITA#2 machine.
>
> It won't be of full use to glass machines unless you download a
> weather font. One of the guys found one, and I've tested it - but
> the characters don't look so hot.
>
> If you have a weather machine, I'd like you to check something:
>
> o What is in the FIGS position on your "A" key?
>
> o Do you have a "DASH" in the FIGS postion on your BLANK key?
>
> UE,
> W6ESE - tony
> NNNN
> ZCZC
>
> -- 
> Tony J. Podrasky | God sat down for a moment when the dog was finished
>                  | in order to watch it and to know that it was good,
>                  | that nothing was lacking, that it could not have
>                  | been made better.          - Rainer Marie Rilke
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