Re: [Xastir] NWS Weather Alerts

2013-06-07 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Thu, 6 Jun 2013, Dean Groe wrote: We had a couple of Tornado Warnings from MLB here today, associated with Tropical Storm Andrea.   I did not receive any alerts from firenet . Plenty of other data, but no Wx Alerts.   I have Wx alert Logging turned on, nothing logged.  What am I missing?  

Re: [Xastir] NWS Weather Alerts

2013-05-24 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Fri, 24 May 2013, Dean Groe wrote: I was able to perform the update and install on Wednesday night.  I also ran the get-NWS script again.  It reported that my files we already up to date.  Last night we had two severe thunderstorm warnings here.  I was here when they  occurred.  Xastir did

Re: [Xastir] NWS Weather Alerts

2013-05-24 Thread Dean Groe
On Wed, 22 May 2013, Dean Groe wrote:   > > >> The Standard rotate pool is fine for me.  It has probably been 7 or 8 years >> since I last tuned in to firenet.  There was lots of interesting stuff, but >> more than I need here.  We are already suffering from information overload >> here in Cen

Re: [Xastir] NWS Weather Alerts

2013-05-23 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Wed, 22 May 2013, Dean Groe wrote: "If you stick to the APRS-IS servers instead of Firenet you get fewer alerts: The guy who wrote the software for injecting them there had different priorities/thoughts about which alerts were important. It's a long story. So I came along later and inde

Re: [Xastir] NWS Weather Alerts

2013-05-21 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Tue, 21 May 2013, Dean Groe wrote: So I have to use firenet, not the standard rotate pool? I don't think that is the case, but I use Firenet all the time so for me it's the default! I'm one of the Firenet guys writing the scripts & injecting Firenet objects, running two of the Firenet se

Re: [Xastir] NWS Weather Alerts

2013-05-21 Thread Dean Groe
urt, WE7U" >Cc: Xastir - APRS client software discussion ; 'Dean >Groe' >Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 2:41 AM >Subject: Re: [Xastir] NWS Weather Alerts > > >On Mon, 20 May 2013, Curt, WE7U wrote: > >> Found something:  Connecting to "firenet.apr

Re: [Xastir] NWS Weather Alerts

2013-05-21 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Mon, 20 May 2013, Curt, WE7U wrote: Found something: Connecting to "firenet.aprs2.net" right now causes problems, which is a bit annoying 'cuz that's the round-robin address which spreads the load across all three firenet servers. Every time I connected Xastir to that one I got: # lo

Re: [Xastir] NWS Weather Alerts

2013-05-21 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Mon, 20 May 2013, Curt, WE7U wrote: I think I have to agree with you. I didn't see a lot of alerts in my Xastir instance here (View->WX Alerts), so I kicked the weather alert server a bit ago and started seeing more alerts in that window. Still seeing ZERO areas lit up though. The most

Re: [Xastir] NWS Weather Alerts

2013-05-21 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Mon, 20 May 2013, David Flood wrote: And I can confirm that something is broke about the latest maps.I see the alerts show up in the view window, I see the "loading weather alerts" message in the lower left, but nothing shows up. This is with both Cygwin and OpenSuse 10.3 with just the worl

Re: [Xastir] NWS Weather Alerts

2013-05-20 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Mon, 20 May 2013, David Flood wrote: If you go to View / Weather Alerts, is anything listed? Something does appear to be messed up...I've got a lot of alerts in just the last five minutes and nothing is lit up on the map... And I'm not getting any warnings about DBFAWK files in the term wi

Re: [Xastir] NWS Weather Alerts

2013-05-20 Thread David Flood
:davi...@mindspring.com] Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 8:25 PM To: 'Dean Groe'; 'Xastir - APRS client software discussion' Subject: RE: [Xastir] NWS Weather Alerts Ok, check your feed then.it has to be one of the firenet servers (or the round robin firenet.aprs2.net), you have

Re: [Xastir] NWS Weather Alerts

2013-05-20 Thread David Flood
Dean Groe [mailto:warpedspe...@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 8:08 PM To: David Flood; 'Xastir - APRS client software discussion' Subject: Re: [Xastir] NWS Weather Alerts Nothing listed at all right now. I was here while some of the warnings were still active late this afternoon. Ther

Re: [Xastir] NWS Weather Alerts

2013-05-20 Thread David Flood
If you go to View / Weather Alerts, is anything listed? Something does appear to be messed up...I've got a lot of alerts in just the last five minutes and nothing is lit up on the map... And I'm not getting any warnings about DBFAWK files in the term window...so that's not it.. -Original Me

Re: [Xastir] NWS Weather Alerts

2013-05-20 Thread Dean Groe
nt software >discussion' >Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 10:50 PM >Subject: RE: [Xastir] NWS Weather Alerts > > >If you go to View / Weather Alerts, is anything listed? > >Something does appear to be messed up...I've got a lot of alerts in just the >last five minutes a

Re: [Xastir] NWS Weather Alerts

2013-05-20 Thread Jerry Wetherholt
Mine seem to work On May 20, 2013, at 6:12 PM, "Dean Groe" wrote: > Anyone know if Weather Alerts are broken again? > > We had a couple of Severe Thunderstorm Warnings here today, but no alerts > came across the Internet Interface in Xastir. > > Thanks > > Dean KD4TWJ > __