I'll apologize now for not being able to keep my site up and
operational. Little problem with sys admins, hardware failure and the
fact that NWS gets paid to do this, and I'm still trying to get funding
outta them to support some of the things I do that NWS benefits from.
OK< so I've whined. Fact is, my site's been down hard with a couple of
large RAID failures, and a pair of dual-drive RAID failures on
individual machines. Mark this down: RAID is no substitute for backup.
And if your backups aren't happening, then you are in trouble.
I'm recovering the TAMU site, as best I can, now. First things first:
I've gotta get my weather models going. I've got to get the Texas
Mesonet page displaying at least real-time data again. Then I can get
radar back up. I've been able to pretty well keep the Level II and
Level III data caches for NWS and NCEP up but the processed stuff lost
out when I lost the disks on that processing system. Losing all of the
Mesonet disks was another big hit.
Gerry
Alex Carver wrote:
I haven't had a problem using radar directly from NWS. I generate GEO files
for the RIDGE image for specific areas. It won't give you all of CONUS unless
you pull in every RIDGE file but it works for zoomed areas. NWS has a page
about it here:
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/jetstream/doppler/ridge_download.htm
They also have the following GIS page:
http://radar.weather.gov/GIS.html
Which contains a link to a location where you can download the regional CONUS
GIFs. When you go to the National/Regional Mosaic section and get the file
list of GIFs, look for the named files as mentioned (e.g. southeast, southwest,
etc.) which will give you one of the eight regional mosaics.
Once the GEO file is set up, either of these work quite well in Xastir. I use
the RIDGE when I'm zoomed in and the regional mosaics when I'm zoomed out.
--- On Sun, 12/6/09, Tom Russo <ru...@bogodyn.org> wrote:
From: Tom Russo <ru...@bogodyn.org>
Subject: Re: [Xastir] More on radar problem
To: "Xastir - APRS client software discussion" <xastir@lists.xastir.org>
Date: Sunday, December 6, 2009, 8:38 PM
On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 07:35:18PM
-0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <jjo...@itol.com>
flavor, containing:
Gents,
I tried manually going to Tamu web site and trying the
various urls
listed in the various geo files...all I ever get is
"object not found."
What is everyone using for radar images these days?
I've given up on them. The USRadar no longer works,
and WMSRadar has been
returning an error HTML page instead of an image for
months. Oddly, this is
converted to an image by imagemagick (using html2ps), which
leads
to a blob of random junk in one corner of the display on my
systems. It took
me a while to trace the source of that junk down to
WMSRadar.
I have no idea if there are any working radar image servers
left anywhere
that can be used by cobbling together a .geo file.
I'd love to hear that there
is.
--
Tom Russo
KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux
http://www.swcp.com/~russo/
Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236
http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM
In some cultures what I do would be considered
normal.
-- Ineffective daily affirmation
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