{
  "id": 6536,
  "title": "Torrent file; any luck?",
  "url": "/competitions/flight2-main/discussion/6536",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2013-12-04T21:26:07.640Z",
  "votes": null,
  "comment_count": 1,
  "views": 1634,
  "content": "<p>I wonder if anyone has managed to download RAP data using the torrent file posted at the bottom of <a href=\"http://www.gequest.com/wiki/FlightQuest2\">http://www.gequest.com/wiki/FlightQuest2</a></p>\n<p>I tried to a few days ago, using Tixati (because when I look at <a href=\"http://soostrc.comet.ucar.edu/data/grib/rap/\">http://soostrc.comet.ucar.edu/data/grib/rap/</a>&nbsp;I get no data before June 20 or September 29, depending on which server I end up on, and I wanted to use the milestone training data).</p>\n<p>I set it up to grab every 0th hour file in the set, it dutifully downloaded stuff for a couple of days (I think) and reported no errors. But when I tried to parse the files, they all turned out to be corrupted and unreadable.</p>\n<p>Before I give it another go, it would be good to know that it's meaningful to do so (as in, &quot;yes, I downloaded those files, worked fine for me&quot;).</p>",
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      "id": "35839",
      "postDate": "12/04/2013 21:26:07",
      "content": "<p>I wonder if anyone has managed to download RAP data using the torrent file posted at the bottom of <a href=\"http://www.gequest.com/wiki/FlightQuest2\">http://www.gequest.com/wiki/FlightQuest2</a></p>\n<p>I tried to a few days ago, using Tixati (because when I look at <a href=\"http://soostrc.comet.ucar.edu/data/grib/rap/\">http://soostrc.comet.ucar.edu/data/grib/rap/</a>&nbsp;I get no data before June 20 or September 29, depending on which server I end up on, and I wanted to use the milestone training data).</p>\n<p>I set it up to grab every 0th hour file in the set, it dutifully downloaded stuff for a couple of days (I think) and reported no errors. But when I tried to parse the files, they all turned out to be corrupted and unreadable.</p>\n<p>Before I give it another go, it would be good to know that it's meaningful to do so (as in, &quot;yes, I downloaded those files, worked fine for me&quot;).</p>",
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    {
      "id": "35859",
      "postDate": "12/05/2013 09:11:31",
      "content": "<p>I had downloaded those RAP files using torrents, and found out they're unfortunately corrupted, so I went with data from&nbsp;http://soostrc.comet.ucar.edu/</p>\n<p>It looks like the files were downloaded in &quot;text&quot; FTP mode on Windows, instead of &quot;binary&quot; mode, so any 0x0A (\\n) chars in those binary files were replaced with 0x0D0A (\\r\\n).</p>",
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    {
      "id": 35859,
      "author_name": "sergeykozub",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "12/05/2013 09:11:31",
      "content": "<p>I had downloaded those RAP files using torrents, and found out they're unfortunately corrupted, so I went with data from&nbsp;http://soostrc.comet.ucar.edu/</p>\n<p>It looks like the files were downloaded in &quot;text&quot; FTP mode on Windows, instead of &quot;binary&quot; mode, so any 0x0A (\\n) chars in those binary files were replaced with 0x0D0A (\\r\\n).</p>",
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