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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">AUTHORS,</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">The APRS spec is confusing and uses WIND SPEED in Knots in some places and in MPH in others. This has been with us from the beginning. But with more and more code being put into hardware and not easily upgraded software, should we fix this?</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">I think many existing radios and clients just decode them all as if they were MPH anyway (metric countries convert MPH to KPH, or do they convert KTS to KPH?)</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">* Raw Weather Report</span> <br><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">* Positionless Weather Report ( ccccssssggggttttrrrrppppPPPPhhhbbbbbb )</span> <br><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">* Complete Weather Report ( DIR/SPDggggtttttrrrrppppPPPPhhhbbbbbb )</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">* Storm Data (DIR/SPD/ST/www^GGG/ppp>RRR&rrr%ggg</span> <br><br><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">ssss = sustained one-minute wind speed (in mph).</span> <br><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">gggg = gust (peak wind speed in mph in the last 5 minutes).</span> <br><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">SPD = the speed is expressed in knots.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">www = Sustained wind in knots</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">GGG = Gust wind in knots</span> <br><br>Should we change it to all MPH to get rid of this potential for confusion, or will we just create more?</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Bob, WB4APR</p></div></body></html>