[GreenKeys] Who has a working WEATHER TELETYPE?

[tony.podrasky]

That 3 paragraph chunk of text that I sent out does not show the
weather symbols. It shows what you'd see if you printed it out
on a regular Teletype machine. If you print it out on a weather
Teletype machine, you'll see the correct symbols.

AFAIK the NWS doesn't use the weather symbols - but I wrote a
program to put them in where they belong.

So if I can find someone who can put stuff on the AUTOSTART ITTY,
I can send him the text as it appeared in the e-mail I posted and
when he puts it onto AUTOSTART ITTY and people have their weather
machines on, they'll see it just as it should be.

UE,
K2EAA - TONY
NNNN
ZCZC


On 09/05/2019 02:53 PM, Richard Knoppow wrote:
>     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
>>      >>
>>      >
>>
>

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