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The WA command is executed by the ASOS at an interval that ranges 
from 1 to 30 seconds. For the WA command, WMT700 responds to the 
ASOS interrogation poll within 250 milliseconds of receiving the 
request. 
NOTE 
The following WS425 F/G ASOS commands cannot be used with 
WMT700: WB, WFIRMWARE, WJ, WD, WF, WR, WCAL, WH, 
WT, WCDV, WSTK, WL, WM, WN, WSST, and WATE. 
WMT700 can only be configured in the configuration mode. For a list of 
configuration commands for WMT700, see Vaisala WINDCAP
®
Ultrasonic Wind Sensor Series WMT700 User's Guide. 
WA — Fetch Averaged Wind Speed and Direction 
This command requests the averaged wind speed and direction message 
with peak winds. 
WA <CR><LF> 
The response to the WA command consists of the averaged wind speed 
and direction data, peak wind speed, and associated direction. The 
average wind speed is a scalar running average of the fundamental 
1-second interval wind speed measurement made by WMT700. For a 
description of the data message, see section WS425 F/G ASOS Data 
Message on page 48. 
You can set the wind averaging tim
e and gust time with the wndAvg and 
wndGustTime parameters. Set the wndVector parameter to 0 to use 
scalar averaging. 
The command also fetches the WMT700 status, the averaging time for 
average and peak wind speed and wind direction, and signal quality. 
WS — Fetch Internal Diagnostics Information 
This command requests the verbose Built-In Test (BIT) results. 
WS<CR><LF> 
The command gives a textual run down of the results of all Built-In Tests 
(BITs). In every line, except the bad reading counter, the pass/fail 










