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'ZCZC' and 'NNNN' - all caps? Is this still set up for teletypes?! Please tell me there's not somewhere still getting these via baudot?!

• worewood 2y ago
  Why not? Japan was using floppy disks until last week or so :D
  • pantulis 2y ago
    Also, it's not like someone is going to be requesting to add emojis to these reports. It's clean, human-readable, it looks like it should not be difficult to parse if the case needed... so why change it?
    • dylan604 2y ago
      Because that's how the younger employees feel like they can contribute by rewriting everything. Clearly, anything created by theOlds can be improved upon using modern but of course they'll make it emoji friendly because that's how you know it's modern.
  • dudeinjapan 2y ago
    Floppy disks? Nah that was ages ago. We've upgraded to fax machines.
• xattt 2y ago
  Wait till you see how messages are transmitted at DND…
  • pezezin 2y ago
    Dungeons and Dragons?
    • katbyte 2y ago
      Department of national defence maybe
  • eCa 2y ago
    Or weather reports for aviation[1]… [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/METAR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/METAR
• perihelions 2y ago
  ZCZC appears to be a signaling codeword for this protocol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAVTEX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAVTEX - "NAVTEX messages are transmitted using binary frequency-shift keying (BFSK) at 100 bit/s and a 170 Hz frequency shift" It's a low-bandwidth way to send weather tweets to seafaring boats.
  • trebligdivad 2y ago
    I love your phrase 'weather tweets'
  • starkparker 2y ago
    ZCZC is the Start of Message signal for a few protocols, including NOAA's SAME, which seems relevant here as this is a NOAA broadcast. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_Area_Message_Encoding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_Area_Message_Encoding
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