[GreenKeys] USN Weather reports

[Nick England]

Thanks to Don, the immediate need for reports is under control, but there's
still an opportunity for someone in the Bay Area to get involved with
getting some TTY gear aboard the Hornet operational. They've got the gear
if you've got the oil.....

I have learned a little about weather reports -
1) METAR format is for airports.
2) FM-12 SYNOP format is for land-based reports
3) FM-13 SHIP format is for US Navy and Coast Guard ship reports

See section 2.3 of
https://www.ofcm.gov/publications/fmh/FMH2/FCM-H2-1988a.pdf

Cheers,
Nick England K4NYW
www.navy-radio.com


On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 7:42 AM Nick England <navy.radio at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
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