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TURBOWIN 5.0
CONVERSION AND SETUP
Matt Thompson – PMO Seattle
Install the program
Install the program from a TW 5.0 program disk (pictured)
Disk Contains :
Opening screen after installation.
Station Data Type and Country
Station Data
Call Sign / VOS Mask ID
Wind Speed and Direction
Wind Speed / Direction VOSCLIM
Temperature
Set the air temperature exposure to marine screen. This is the defaultoption for the Temp
Set the default state of the wet bulb to wet-bulb not frozen.
Set the default seawater temperature exposure as appropriate for the ship.
Click OK to save the default temperature exposure settings.
EMAIL SETTINGSConfiguring TurboWin to email the observationTurboWin provides the facility to email the observations as an alternative to using Inmarsat.
Before use, the email settings must be configured in TurboWin as described below.
Note: The use of email to send the observations is at the ship’s own expense.From the menu bar, select Maintenance>> E-Mail settings.The dialogue box in Figure 28 will be presented.
If an email client, such as Outlook, Outlook Express or Thunderbird is alreadyinstalled and configured on the computer then TurboWin will use this package, and the only the first two fields must be completed:In the Obs E-mail address recipient field enter [email protected] in lower case replacing the cmss address.In the Obs E-mail subject field enter weather observation as shown.
Email con’t• *NOTE: the example above [email protected] should replace [email protected]
*If an email client, such as Outlook, Outlook Express or Thunderbird is not installedon the computer, then the email client in TurboWin can be used to email theobservations. In this situation, the remaining fields shown in must becompleted, possibly with the assistance of the Ship’s Engineer/IT personnel
• In the outgoing SMTP mail server enter the ships SMTP mail server
• address, typically this will be in the form of mail.domain-name.com.
• In the outgoing mail server username enter the username authorized to send emails to the SMTP mail server indicated in 9.6.1.
• In your (station) email address enter the ship’s email address.
• In your (station) name enter the name of the ship.
• Click the save button to save the settings.
Recording the Settings
• Recording the TurboWin Configuration Settings• Details of the TW50 configuration settings should be
recorded by the PMO on the TurboWin Configuration Log.
• The purpose of this log is to record the configuration settings in the event that TW50 must be reinstalled by a person other than the PMO responsible for the ship.
• A blank TurboWin Configuration Log sheet is installed with TurboWin Extras. To open this form for printing, navigate to C:\Meteo\Extras\manuals\ and then double click on the tw_config_log.pdf file.
The recovered IMMT data must be prepared for delivery to NDBC and the log files compressed into a single file using a Winzip compatible program.
The compressed file is to be named according to the following convention:Ship call_TURBOWIN_firstobs_lastobs.ZIP, where firstobs andlastobs, in the format YYYYMMDDHH, are extracted from theIMMT.TXT file, columns 2-11, in the first and last lines respectively.
The file is to be sent as an email attachment to the Marine Operations Group(email address: [email protected] or sent to assigned PMO).
Log files for climatology
Message box when Move to floppy disk is selected. Click OK.It is recommended to also include the ship visit date on the label.
Message box when Move to USB is selected. Click OK then select thedestination drive and folder for the TurboWin log files.
Can advance each section individually by radio buttons
or auto advance to each screen
Tracking map from Obs.
TURBOWIN 5.5
PROJECTED RELEASE DATENOVEMBER 2014
A LOOK AHEAD….
TurboWin 5.5New 101 format compressed messages will be integrated into TurboWin
TurboWin 5.5Whales and dolphins reporting
TurboWin 5.5Email settings will have password protection
TurboWin 5.5
sea state thumbnail will reflect inserted wind speed
TurboWin 5.5IMMT-5 storage
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