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- July 22, 1992
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- RadarScan users--
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- Well, here it is... there weren't any "bugs" in the original version
- (thankfully), but I guess you could say there were a few "mites". That's
- why this version is out... V1.1.
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- One of the updates is the decoding of reports from western US air
- traffic control radars. These radar reports are very cryptical and I
- had little guidance to go on. I programmed RadarScan to process MDR code
- which was printed in the remarks of FAA/ARTCC radar reports. Somehow this
- didn't seem right, though, as RadarScan wasn't quite matching up to the
- satellite photos. I called one of the FAA air traffic control centers and,
- surprisingly, talked to a radar meteorologist who developed the code about
- 18 years ago! He said that this code doesn't physically represent a storm
- and is used merely for labelling radar composites at the National
- Meteorological Center.
- So, you people out in the western U.S. have good reason to celebrate!
- The RadarScan maps of that area look much nicer and more accurate.
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- As far as other changes... I had a pet peeve with the map being plotted
- and not knowing right away whether the program was done or not. If you
- had the old version, you'll notice the little status messages at the
- bottom of the screen now... very nice.
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- This doesn't mean much for you demo users, but today I pulled out a map
- and the U.S. was swamped in storm activity. My program was plotting radar
- heights left and right like crazy. I corrected this... now when you specify
- whether to plot storm heights or not (/H), you can now tell the computer
- to ignore all tops under a certain level.
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- That's about it for this update. Thanks to all of you who've registered...
- I'm sure you know that you can get updates simply by downloading the
- new demo version, which will disassemble into a fully functioning program.
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- Until next time....
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- Tim
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