[GreenKeys] Who has a working WEATHER TELETYPE?

[Richard Knoppow]

    Thank you, however what you have is pretty much what I got 
from Tony on the list.
    From what others have answered the old symbols are no longer 
used. I have a hand written list I copied onto the "Printing 
telegraph code card" in my edition of "Reference Data for Radio 
Engineers"  4th edition. The differences are all upper case and 
upper case numbers are the same. The code card has ten different 
codes, all slightly different in their use of upper case symbols.
    The WX symbols are arrows, to indicate wind direction and 
circles indicating sky cover. There are 8 arrows, varying by 45 
degrees, and four circles some containing lines; clear,  one 
vertical line, two vertical lines and a cross indicating clear to 
increasing amounts of obscuring. There is also a + and - sign but 
some other code fonts also have those. Probably one could 
translate the printed symbols from a machine with another code if 
you know its code and know the WX code. I don't know the format 
the WX messages were sent in but, presumably, wind speed, cloud 
height, etc were included.

On 9/3/2019 4:57 PM, Nick England wrote:
> Here it is printed with a M28 weather symbol typebox:
> http://www.navy-radio.com/tty/tty-wx-02.JPG
> 
> Some day I'll get around to connecting my computer to my 
> teletypes - for now I have to send a message via AUTOSTART.
> 
> Cheers,
> Nick England K4NYW
> www.navy-radio.com <http://www.navy-radio.com>
> 
> 
> On Tue, Sep 3, 2019 at 7:51 PM tony.podrasky 
> <tony.podrasky at gmail.com <mailto:tony.podrasky at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Richard;
> 
>     It looks that way because that is what you'd see when you print
>     it out on a regular Teletype. When you print it on a Weather
>     Teletype
>     the weather symbols will appear.
> 
>     The NWS doesn't use those weather symbols anymore - at least not
>     where I've looked.
> 
>     UE,
>     K2EAA - TONY
>     NNNN
>     ZCZC
> 
> 
>     On 09/03/2019 04:19 PM, Richard Knoppow wrote:
>      >     Well, this is plain text. The weather font I am
>     familiar with has
>      > special symbols such as arrows indicating wind direction
>     and symbols
>      > indicating sky cover along with the usual numbers and
>     punctuation. All
>      > upper case. Does NWS have this stuff on it?
>      >
>      > On 9/3/2019 3:10 PM, tony.podrasky wrote:
>      >> GA OMs;
>      >>
>      >> I'm looking for someone who has a working Weather Teletype
>      >> that he can play text to.
>      >>
>      >> I download various weather products from the NWS, and then
>      >> convert them to use the weather fonts.
>      >>
>      >> I believe if you play the text to a weather machine it should
>      >> work properly.
>      >>
>      >> Here is a sample:
>      >>
>      >> SANDIEGO/KSAN / 022351 GMT / WINDS )X- OR 150 DEGREES AT
>     07 KNOTS /
>      >> PREVAILING VISIBILITY 10 STATUTE MILES / FEW CLOUDS AT
>     06000 FEET / ,
>      >> 17000 FEET / , 20000 FEET / , 25000 FEET / TEMPERATURE*
>     DEWPOINT +28.0
>      >> +15.0 DEGREES CENTIGRADE / ALTIMETER 29.92 INCHES OF
>     MERCURY /
>      >> REMARKS... AUTOMATED STATION WITH PRECIPITATION
>     DISCRIMINATOR / SEA
>      >> LEVEL PRESSURE 1013.1 MILLIBARS / OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING
>     INTER* CLOUD
>      >> DISTANT ( CUMULOSNIMBUS CLOUDS DISTANT ( AND ) MOVING & 6
>     HOUR
>      >> PRECIPITATION 00.00 INCHES / HOURLY TEMPERATURE* DEWPOINT
>     +27.8 +15.0
>      >> DEGREES CENTIGRADE / 6 HOUR MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE +30.0 DEGREES
>      >> CENTIGRADE / 6 HOUR MINIMUM TEMPERATURE +26.1 DEGREES
>     CENTIGRADE / 3
>      >> HOUR BAROMETRIC PRESSURE CHANGE 01.0 MILLIBARS AND
>     FALLING THEN STEADY /
>      >>
>      >> Any volunteers?
>      >>
>      >> If it works, maybe we can add this to the ITTY queue.
>      >>
>      >> UE,
>      >> K2EAA - TONY
>      >> NNNN
>      >> ZCZC
>      >>
>      >
> 

-- 
Richard Knoppow
1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com
WB6KBL