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Oh ok, although I think I'm a bit confused! Are you saying that the link (http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/ ) in DA downlaods metars that are more than an hour out of date?! Because the text files themselves from the FTP server are updated everyhour with no exception!

Ah, ok, no worries Thanks for the info.

Arman

Hi, I'm just a little curious as to how long it takes to recieve a serial key. I placed an order for Digital atmosphere at round 10am last Thursday morning (US time) and I also sent the serial number (and my order details) using the contact page on the website but I still haven't recieved the serial...

Hi there, Try the NOAA's FTP server, go to the 'cycles' folder and download the latest text file (the files are named according to current UTC/Zulu time). Each file contains a list of the current metars from every observation station in the wordl that submitted a METAR at the given time. Here's the ...

Hi Fred, thanks again for the reply. Yeah I read in the help section that the volume has to be between 50 -75 and I turned the volume on my pc to the max and on my reciever to the max but I'm still getting a volume readout of 44?! I don't know why this is! I've tried to recieve NOAA 12, 15 and 17. I...

Hi there, thanks for the reply. I understand that both the scanner and the antenna aren't ideal however at elast I am getting something. I tried to recieve a satellite again however, this time I increased the volume and set the squelch on the reciever so that it just cut off the 'hissing' noise. The...

Hi all, im using the freeware version of Wxtoimg however i am having some problems receiving the satellite data. I am using a radioshack Pro-95 airband scanner with a discone hooked up to my pc. I was using the scanner with an normal airband antenna but after recieving no results, i switched to the ...

False alarm! I fixed the problem, thanks anyway

Arman

Ah thanks Tim, I tried changing the '@I' to '@S' as you said to get more data from the net but I didnt get as many stations as I saw in your screenshot but nevertheless I just imported the hourly metar file from ftp://weather.noaa.gov/data/observations/metar/ Seems very useful and does the trick jus...

Hi all, I'm relatively new to digital atmosphere and would just like a little help regarding dataset coverage. I'm a student pilot and using digital atmosphere to produce high level significant weather forecasts. However residing in the middle east (Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates), there doesn't...