On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 12:37:54 -0500, wrote:

KHSV 221553Z 19009KT 6SM BR FEW020 BKN035 OVC100 19/18 A2986 RMK
AO2 TSE00RAE11 SLP104 TS MOV NE P0000 T01890178=

I know, and I can read it. And someone is going to say that they
prefer it that way.

I can just see an ASR-33 Teletype machine jumping up and down and
saying that 10 characters per second is what God made for us.

How about FDL uplinks? I think they're only around 30K/s. I'd rather
see that used uploading the Nexrad info rather than English form
METAR.

The translation of the raw data is trivial to do in the client end of
the system (a-la the Bendix KDR510/810, or the XM weather in the
G1000, it shows both decoded and raw-data TAF and raw-data METAR if
available for the reporting stations).

So technically, we don't have to read weather like that, there's just
not (or is there? hmm) a simple program where one can type in a
station and out pops the translated text (something more simple and
fast than aviationweather.gov or DUAT, just a quick and dirty
application - enter station(s) here, out comes realtext there..
Should be trivial to write for those who know how to do such things).