I had to play around a bit with their sort of reverse Polish style - To download whole year you enter the END DATE, but the BEGINNING HOUR so for 2009
2009 31 December
Hour 0000
Days 365
Then specify what kind of file (Excel xls, TXT CSV, etc.) If you specify CSV it just opens in Chrome browser and you have to cut and paste. xls downloads to your download directory.
When I read their little tutorial somewhere on the site it was very specific about entering 365 days for a year download to avoid oversize file errors - when I did that I actually cot December 31, 2008 0000 through December 31, 2009 2352. My VWSAPRS is set to 10 minute uploads.
I downloaded 3 or 4 times in different formats with different settings until I got a usable csv without the Quality field in the middle (row of variable check boxes to verify before downloads) - but everything I uploaded seems to have downloaded. Now to reform the RECDATE VWS field and get the others lined up in a new artificial 2009dbase.csv....