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[David I. Emery]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 10:34:34PM -0400, Duncan M. Brown wrote:
> 
> (I used to copy WBR-70 back in the 1960s - 70s. I think they were on 8130
> KCS.)

	So did I, from 1964 through the early 70s... and at some point
IIRC they eventually changed to 100 WPM from 60 before they went off the air.

	I found the 14390 frequency worked better where I was... but they
were always on two or three freqs at a time...

	There were two streams of material on two different stations
in that era, an aviation oriented stream with what is now called METARs
but in a different code format and lots of TAFS and other semi readible
material including forecast discussions and advisories and another station
that transmitted synoptic coded material (lots and lots of pages of 5 number
groups) that could be decoded if you had the right documents and patience
but certainly wasn't readily readible.   The latter station (the synoptic one)
transmitted a lot of weather maps (eg upper air maps and progs) as sequences
of coordinate pair along the isobars... and numerically coded surface and
upper air observations that I suppose some folks eventually grew able to
read without painful references to decoding charts but were definitely not
for casual perusal.

	Ironically much of this stuff could no doubt be rendered into
quite easily readible maps and charts with a low powered computer with
graphics capability , but such were not available back then to most of
us.

	
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