User's Guide _______________________________________________________________________ 
108  __________________________________________________________________ M211107EN-C 
 - 1=hardware error, 2= hardware warning, 
   3= backscatter alarm, 4= backscatter warning 
- 1= visibility alarm 1,  2= visibility alarm 2, 
  3= visibility alarm 3 
 
-RA  , instant METAR weather codes  
RERA , recent METAR weather (RE criteria used) 
 
The following is an example without frames, followed by the same 
including frames and a support line for determining character count: 
 PW  1 00  6839  7505  R  61 61 61   0.33  12.16    0  23.4 12345 
-RA 
RERA 
 
 
!PW  1∀00  6839  7505  R  61 61 61   0.33  12.16    0  23.4 12345−∗ 
-RA−∗ 
RERA−∗ 
#−∗ 
 
1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567 
Message 7 consists of three lines. METAR present weather codes are 
output on the second and third lines. These lines are not of fixed length 
because METAR codes can be combined in many ways. The METAR 
codes may also be left out but the lines of the message are always 
terminated by a carriage return and line feed characters. 
Message Polling 
In the polled (CLOSED) mode, PWD32 sends a data message when the 
host computer transmits a polling command. The message polling mode 
is selected with the following command: 
AMES Message_number 0 
Valid range 0 ... 7, whereof 7 is used for 
FS11P. 
Negative or zero intervals is used to disable 
the automatic sending. This is used when 
messages are polled. 
For example: 
AMES 7 0 
 
The above command selects message 7 for default answer for the polling 
and cancels the automatic sending.