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[GEMPAK #VWC-205798]: Confused about using dccsig, dcairm, dcisig



Raymond,

The dccsig decoder does decode these bulletin headers. However,
the text that you pasted into the browser below does not match 
the bulletin as is being broadcast. Likely you have either stripped out control
characters, or your cut/paste did that.

For instance, the first product you show:

>WSUS33 KKCI 091755
>SIGW
>CONVECTIVE SIGMET...NONE
>
>OUTLOOK VALID 091955-092355
>TS ARE NOT EXPD TO REQUIRE WST ISSUANCES.


The actual text in the bulletin is:
^A^M^M
854 ^M^M
WSUS33 KKCI 091755^M^M
SIGW  ^M^M
^^MKCW WST 091755^M^M
CONVECTIVE SIGMET...NONE^M^M
^M^M
OUTLOOK VALID 091955-092355^M^M
TS ARE NOT EXPD TO REQUIRE WST ISSUANCES.^M^M
^M^M
^M^M
^C


I am showing the location of control characters in the sut/paste above for
comparison. They would be actual characters in the bulletin.
We can generate the start and end sequences easily for the
decoder to locate the start/stop of a bulletin if you have stripped those
out. What I don't see in your email message is the line starting
with the record separator character and identifying the center, ie:
^^MKCW WST 091755

Its possible that that was just missing from your cut/paste if your terminal
doesn't know what to do with the RS character. If thats the case, then you
just need to wrap your products with the FOS broadcast start/end sequences such 
as:


-------------fos_wrap.csh------------------
#!/bin/csh

if ($#argv < 1 ) then
   echo "Usage: $0 inputfile"
   exit
endif

printf "\001\r\r\n000 \r\r\n"
cat $1
printf "\r\r\n\003"

-----------------------------------------------

Use like:
% fos_wrap.csh product | dccsig -d - -v 4 YYYYMMDDHH.conv


If you truely are missing the report region identifier, then
you need to determine why you aren't getting the complete bulletin text.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support





> Hi, I'm not sure how to use the converters dccsig, dcairm, and dcisig.
> I've been reading the users manual and it doesn't tell me much about the
> input files I need to give it.
> 
> 
> 
> Does it take in airmet/sigmet reports that look like these?
> 
> Trying to use dcisig for this one since it is a convective sigmet, but
> with no luck it doesn't give me the ascii output. Thanks for your help.
> 
> 
> 
> WSUS33 KKCI 091755
> SIGW
> CONVECTIVE SIGMET...NONE
> 
> OUTLOOK VALID 091955-092355
> TS ARE NOT EXPD TO REQUIRE WST ISSUANCES.
> 
> WSUS32 KKCI 091755
> SIGC
> CONVECTIVE SIGMET 76C
> VALID UNTIL 1955Z
> LA MO AR TX
> FROM 10E SGF-20SSW ARG-40SSE EIC-20WNW TXK-20SW RZC-10E SGF
> AREA TS MOV LTL. TOPS TO FL440.
> 
> OUTLOOK VALID 091955-092355
> FROM 50NNW GGW-40NNE MOT-MCK-60SSE SAW-40W PMM-40SSW BNA-70SSW
> CEW-IAH-DFW-DLF-ABQ-50NNW GGW
> WST ISSUANCES EXPD. REFER TO MOST RECENT ACUS01 KWNS FROM STORM
> PREDICTION CENTER FOR SYNOPSIS AND METEOROLOGICAL DETAILS.
> 
> WSUS31 KKCI 091755
> SIGE
> CONVECTIVE SIGMET 40E
> VALID UNTIL 1955Z
> ME NH VT
> FROM 60SE YSC-50NW ENE-30SSW MPV
> LINE SEV TS 25 NM WIDE MOV FROM 28045KT. TOPS TO FL400.
> HAIL TO 1.5 IN...WIND GUSTS TO 60KT POSS.
> 
> OUTLOOK VALID 091955-092355
> AREA 1...FROM 50NW PQI-YSJ-BDL-SLT-50NW ERI-MSS-40E YSC-50NW PQI
> REF WW 494.
> WST ISSUANCES EXPD. REFER TO MOST RECENT ACUS01 KWNS FROM STORM
> PREDICTION CENTER FOR SYNOPSIS AND METEOROLOGICAL DETAILS.
> 
> AREA 2...FROM 40SSW BNA-170ESE ECG-130SE ILM-170E PBI-60ENE
> PBI-80SE MIA-90ESE EYW-100WNW EYW-80SW CTY-70SSW CEW-40SSW BNA
> WST ISSUANCES EXPD. REFER TO MOST RECENT ACUS01 KWNS FROM STORM
> PREDICTION CENTER FOR SYNOPSIS AND METEOROLOGICAL DETAILS.
> 
> AREA 3...FROM 60SSE SAW-40N ASP-ECK-40WSW PMM-60SSE SAW
> WST ISSUANCES EXPD. REFER TO MOST RECENT ACUS01 KWNS FROM STORM
> PREDICTION CENTER FOR SYNOPSIS AND METEOROLOGICAL DETAILS.
> 
> WSUS32 KKCI 091755
> SIGC
> CONVECTIVE SIGMET 77C
> VALID UNTIL 1955Z
> MI WI IL LM
> FROM 30SSW TVC-60WSW BAE
> LINE TS 30 NM WIDE MOV FROM 26040KT. TOPS TO FL400.
> 
> OUTLOOK VALID 091955-092355
> FROM 50NNW GGW-40NNE MOT-MCK-60SSE SAW-40W PMM-40SSW BNA-70SSW
> CEW-IAH-DFW-DLF-ABQ-50NNW GGW
> WST ISSUANCES EXPD. REFER TO MOST RECENT ACUS01 KWNS FROM STORM
> PREDICTION CENTER FOR SYNOPSIS AND METEOROLOGICAL DETAILS.
> 
> WSUS32 KKCI 091755
> SIGC
> CONVECTIVE SIGMET 78C
> VALID UNTIL 1955Z
> MS LA
> FROM 30NE MLU-10WNW BTR-30SW MSY
> LINE TS 35 NM WIDE MOV LTL. TOPS TO FL440.
> 
> OUTLOOK VALID 091955-092355
> FROM 50NNW GGW-40NNE MOT-MCK-60SSE SAW-40W PMM-40SSW BNA-70SSW
> CEW-IAH-DFW-DLF-ABQ-50NNW GGW
> WST ISSUANCES EXPD. REFER TO MOST RECENT ACUS01 KWNS FROM STORM
> PREDICTION CENTER FOR SYNOPSIS AND METEOROLOGICAL DETAILS.
> 
> WSUS32 KKCI 091755
> SIGC
> CONVECTIVE SIGMET 79C
> VALID UNTIL 1955Z
> IL MO
> FROM 50NE FAM-40NW DYR-70SSE COU-50NE FAM
> DVLPG AREA TS MOV LTL. TOPS TO FL440.
> 
> OUTLOOK VALID 091955-092355
> FROM 50NNW GGW-40NNE MOT-MCK-60SSE SAW-40W PMM-40SSW BNA-70SSW
> CEW-IAH-DFW-DLF-ABQ-50NNW GGW
> WST ISSUANCES EXPD. REFER TO MOST RECENT ACUS01 KWNS FROM STORM
> PREDICTION CENTER FOR SYNOPSIS AND METEOROLOGICAL DETAILS.
> 
> WSUS31 KKCI 091755
> SIGE
> CONVECTIVE SIGMET 41E
> VALID UNTIL 1955Z
> NC SC
> FROM 50NW ILM-10WNW ILM-20SW CHS-30SE CLT-50NW ILM
> AREA TS MOV LTL. TOPS TO FL440.
> 
> OUTLOOK VALID 091955-092355
> AREA 1...FROM 50NW PQI-YSJ-BDL-SLT-50NW ERI-MSS-40E YSC-50NW PQI
> REF WW 494.
> WST ISSUANCES EXPD. REFER TO MOST RECENT ACUS01 KWNS FROM STORM
> PREDICTION CENTER FOR SYNOPSIS AND METEOROLOGICAL DETAILS.
> 
> AREA 2...FROM 40SSW BNA-170ESE ECG-130SE ILM-170E PBI-60ENE
> PBI-80SE MIA-90ESE EYW-100WNW EYW-80SW CTY-70SSW CEW-40SSW BNA
> WST ISSUANCES EXPD. REFER TO MOST RECENT ACUS01 KWNS FROM STORM
> PREDICTION CENTER FOR SYNOPSIS AND METEOROLOGICAL DETAILS.
> 
> AREA 3...FROM 60SSE SAW-40N ASP-ECK-40WSW PMM-60SSE SAW
> WST ISSUANCES EXPD. REFER TO MOST RECENT ACUS01 KWNS FROM STORM
> PREDICTION CENTER FOR SYNOPSIS AND METEOROLOGICAL DETAILS.
> 
> WSUS31 KKCI 091755
> SIGE
> CONVECTIVE SIGMET 42E
> VALID UNTIL 1955Z
> NC GA TN AL MS AR
> FROM 40NW MEM-40SSE VXV-50NE CEW-20WSW MEI-40WNW SQS-40NW MEM
> AREA TS MOV LTL. TOPS TO FL440.
> 
> OUTLOOK VALID 091955-092355
> AREA 1...FROM 50NW PQI-YSJ-BDL-SLT-50NW ERI-MSS-40E YSC-50NW PQI
> REF WW 494.
> WST ISSUANCES EXPD. REFER TO MOST RECENT ACUS01 KWNS FROM STORM
> PREDICTION CENTER FOR SYNOPSIS AND METEOROLOGICAL DETAILS.
> 
> AREA 2...FROM 40SSW BNA-170ESE ECG-130SE ILM-170E PBI-60ENE
> PBI-80SE MIA-90ESE EYW-100WNW EYW-80SW CTY-70SSW CEW-40SSW BNA
> WST ISSUANCES EXPD. REFER TO MOST RECENT ACUS01 KWNS FROM STORM
> PREDICTION CENTER FOR SYNOPSIS AND METEOROLOGICAL DETAILS.
> 
> AREA 3...FROM 60SSE SAW-40N ASP-ECK-40WSW PMM-60SSE SAW
> WST ISSUANCES EXPD. REFER TO MOST RECENT ACUS01 KWNS FROM STORM
> PREDICTION CENTER FOR SYNOPSIS AND METEOROLOGICAL DETAILS.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ---
> 
> Raymond Yip
> 
> 
> 
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Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: VWC-205798
Department: Support GEMPAK
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed