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Using the Mexico shapefiles should not cause an issue writing out a KML file. Would you please try using the default background map "-j${MDL}/graphics/arlmap"?
Does the plot look right if you generate concplot.ps instead of the plot in KML format?

If you set ndump < 0, particle positions will be written at each time step.
https://www.ready.noaa.gov/hysplitusersguide/S627.htm
For example, you will get PARDUMP in every minute if you set the time step to 1 minute (delt=1) and ndump=-1 for your run.

Can you show what your KML file looks like as you said it is incomplete? I output the frequency plot in 6.1 (https://www.ready.noaa.gov/documents/Tutorial/images/freq010.png) in KML format, using the command line like yours => ${MDL}/exec/concplot -m0 -k1 -z80 -a3 -51 -j${MDL}/graphics/arlmap -itfre...

Here is the ASCDATA.CDFG =>

-90.0 -180.0 lat/lon of lower left corner
1.0 1.0 lat/lon spacing in degrees
180 360 lat/lon number of data points
2 default land use category
0.2 default roughness length (m)
'C:/hysplit/bdyfiles/' directory of files

Yes, you can put multiple locations in the CONTROL file.
If you are using the EMITIMES file for emission, it should have corresponding locations as those in CONTROL.

Not sure what your question is...
The tutorial 13.4 has 3 starting locations. Did you have a problem running it?

The GUI in hysplit.v5.0 released last year does not have the "Create files" tab. The 2020 Tutorial => https://www.ready.noaa.gov/documents/Tutorial_2020/view/ens_meteo.html You can follow that if you want to stay with hsyplit.v5.0 Or you can upgrade to v5.1. The GUI in v5.1 for "Concentration -->isp...

They are described in the HYSPLIT user's guide: https://www.ready.noaa.gov/hysplitusersguide/S441.htm => "Other conversion rates or a greater number of pollutants can be defined by editing the CHEMRATE.TXT file in the local directory. This file is created automatically each time the Save button is p...

I just successfully downloaded the file wrfout_d01_20200316.ARL on my laptop through the GUI.Please check if you are accessing the FTP through other platforms (like a web browser or an FTP client) from your computer. An alternative is to open the following link using a web browser and then right-cli...

The FTP access for wrf27km dataset for the year 2020 is good. And the access to the year 2021 (up to March) is working now.