[GreenKeys] USN Weather reports

[Nick England]

Success! Tom has made contact with greenkeyer Dan Provost who is a former
Navy Aerographer (weatherman), knows all about the Navy report formats, and
has batches of real data, maps, etc. I just sent Dan a roll of old canary
yellow paper so that the reports he prints for display look authentic.

Thanks to all who replied with useful info. FWIW, The Navy report format
Tom was looking for is not the same as the METAR report like Tony had
broadcast on ITTY.

More later
Nick


On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 10:45 AM Nick England <navy.radio at gmail.com> wrote:

> I got email this morning from Tom Hanagan who is restoring the weather
> office on board the USS Hornet at Alameda CA. He is looking for some
> weather reports to display.
> (note: this might be a great opportunity for someone to restore some of
> their teletype gear to working condition.)
>
> Below is his description of the report for which he is looking. I *think*
> these might be shown briefly near the beginning (00:58 to 01:08) of this
> film
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLuh_O4mYbA
> (side note - this is worth watching if for nothing else to see 28KSR
> machines mounted on the bulkheads)
>
> Tom Says:
> ===================
> What I'm in dire need of, though, is a tty sheet of coded weather report
> used in plotting maps. These were sent at 6 hourly intervals, typically
> from a fleet weather central like Norfolk, Guam, or Rota, and is basically
> a line listing of stations with a coded weather report, usually 5-8 five
> digit code sequences preceded by the station identifier. These fairly long
> (12"-24" length) transmissions were sent out to the fleet, and we plotted
> the maps from them.
> =====================
>
> Contact Tom at tomhanagan46 at gmail.com
> but please keep me in the loop as I'd like to learn more and am a fiend
> for anything related to Navy teletypes.....
> Cheers,
> Nick England K4NYW
> www.navy-radio.com
>
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Nick England K4NYW
www.navy-radio.com
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